Help needed!!
My little girl is 8 months old. She’s never been a brilliant napper - always a 30 minute catnapper but I managed to keep on top of it with regular naps. She settles herself to sleep with her dummy within 5-10 mins of being put down and always sleeps in her crib unless we’re travelling back from somewhere in the car - but this is a rarity.
About a month ago she dropped to three naps a day (one or two usually longer) and she had been sleeping through from about 6.30/7pm until 5.30/6am. I was very happy with this and she is quite a placid but alert character and she seemed ok with this too.
The past week, however, has been AWFUL!!! She has been all over the place with her naps and sometimes having a longer nap in the middle of the day and then refusing any other naps (even when ending at 1pm and having been swimming! 😂🙄). This meant a bedtime of 6.30 and she was ok still sleeping through. The last three nights, however, she has started waking anywhere between 12 and 3am and being awake for an hour and a half!! She’s not crying or upset just happily awake - chatting and laughing to herself. I don’t go in to her unless she’s upset and then I’ll just go in and pop her dummy in and eventually she’ll go back to sleep. This morning, I also fed her at 4.30 as she was really crying and I thought that she could feasibly be hungry and she then slept until 7am.
I think she needs to drop to a two nap schedule but I have no idea how to go about that. Also, I’m assuming some of it is developmental - she’s just started bum shuffling and becoming a lot more mobile and saying her first words. Also I think her top two front teeth are making an appearance.
What do I do?? I’m back at work full time in 3 weeks 😵