Title says it all really!
Am a bit at sea with dd2 as dd1 needed more sleep than you could give her and even now sleeps more than dd2 in total each day (who says you can't have favourites...).
DD2s sleep has got worse from 3 months onwards, but not too bad, one or two night feeds and typically a 5 or 6am start to the day. However, she's just been poorly with marathon inconsoleable screaming sessions each night, and now she's better the sleep is the worst it's ever been. Eg she woke last night at 11.30 and it took over 2 hours of mostly screaming to get her back to sleep. It's been like this most nights over the last week, but the difference now is that she's not poorly anymore and clearly just wants to play, until she gets hysterically tired then can't get back to sleep. Previously I would give her a bf and she would be back asleep within 20 mins, but she's refusing to feed now and basically just wants to play/chat.
She sleeps from 6.45pm/7pm to typically 6am (with the occasional 5am shocker, or maybe 6.30am if she's had a really bad night. Naps are 20/30mins at 9.30 (20 mins if she's had a good night and slept on to gone 6.30 as otherwise she doesn't sleep well at lunch which is when dd1 sleeps), I wake her up from this nap. At 12.45 she naps for typically 1h15 to 1h30, it's unusual for her to sleep any longer.
This seems like such a small amount of daytime sleep to me (compared to dd1 who was still on 3 naps a day at this age), that I can't believe it's too much? But is it? Should I cut out the morning nap in the hope she'll sleep better at night? She always goes to sleep very happily btw, no crying, it's just the night waking that's the problem.
Sorry very long, but am too tired to try and edit! Nearly fainted this morning!
I'm thinking it's time for some CC (don't flame me please, she's screaming anyway and it was the only option left in the end last night, and probably shortened the amount of crying time if anything).