Hi mnners
My DD is just over 8 months old. Was EBF until 6 months and then we successfully night weaned her without much drama.
After a recent brief hiccup with night time sleep, we are now back to more or less sleeping through with LO easily settling herself when/if she wakes in the night.
HOWEVER! Day time naps are something else. Unless DD is in the car/pram, she feeds to sleep on me. Nap routine goes like this:
Wakes up: 5:30 and feeds (goes to bed at 17:30pm which is whole new thread!)
7:30-8: feeds to sleep
10-10:30: feeds to sleep
12:30-14:30: feeds to sleep
17:30 (ish) bedtime where she sleeps through to 5:30
However, when she naps in the cot she will only go down for 20/25 minutes at the first 2 naps, and around 30-45 minutes for what should be her 2 hour long nap. I try and settle her back to sleep when she wakes up but yesterday after an hour she just wasn't going back to sleep.
I know it's a whole new routine she's learning but she does understand that cot is for sleeping and has demonstrated with the night weaning that she can do it.
She doesn't like dummies, has never taken to one despite our attempts, although we are now happy about this. The projector we had was too bright for her and she likes it pitch black so that's not an option, we have classical music playing in her room so it's not that it's too quiet...I'm jut stumped.
Another issue we have is her bedtime, n9 matter what we do, we are unable to push that bedtime. We thought the clocks changing would help, but no such look!! We tried doing a pre nap sleep but she still woke up at 5:30 and she seems happier going to bed at 17:30 anyway, it just semi a shame that we're all missing out on nice evening walks and what not in this weather.
Any advice I welcome!!