This is babe #2 for moi, and with #1, I learned that you just have to be patient, it might take years, but they will sleep through the night. So i am not even trying to get my 7-mo old DD to sleep more at night, though she won't nurse lying down and often has to be rocked while I nurse standing up -- and though she often wakes for a couple hours from 3 to 5 or 2 to 4.
But it's the day that is killing me. She sometimes will nap for an hour or two but mostly she takes one or two very short naps a day. I can't take a nap or get any work done or do much homeschooling with my 4 yr old because she just catnaps. So when she goes to sleep at night, I always use that time before I crash utterly to do a little work, and as a result I am barely sleeping at all. But most of all I do not understand how she can live on so little sleep! At night she goes down at 6:30 or 7 and gets up anywhere from 4 til 6, but this is often interrupted for 2 full hours of wakey wakey. Then during the day, she gets anywhere from 45 minutes + 25 minutes of sleep during the two nap times all the way up to a couple hours, but mostly it's very little, rarely does she get more than an hour in the morning and a short one in the afternoon with maybe a 10-15 min here and there while i am walking. She is a very happy and sweet baby, such that everyone is always commenting on her as the "perfect" baby, so I don't think she is suffering from lack of sleep (though I sure am!). But am I doing this wrong? Should I be doing more to get her to sleep more, like walking endlessly while wearing her though I have my son to take care of?
But it's the day that is killing me. She sometimes will nap for an hour or two but mostly she takes one or two very short naps a day. I can't take a nap or get any work done or do much homeschooling with my 4 yr old because she just catnaps. So when she goes to sleep at night, I always use that time before I crash utterly to do a little work, and as a result I am barely sleeping at all. But most of all I do not understand how she can live on so little sleep! At night she goes down at 6:30 or 7 and gets up anywhere from 4 til 6, but this is often interrupted for 2 full hours of wakey wakey. Then during the day, she gets anywhere from 45 minutes + 25 minutes of sleep during the two nap times all the way up to a couple hours, but mostly it's very little, rarely does she get more than an hour in the morning and a short one in the afternoon with maybe a 10-15 min here and there while i am walking. She is a very happy and sweet baby, such that everyone is always commenting on her as the "perfect" baby, so I don't think she is suffering from lack of sleep (though I sure am!). But am I doing this wrong? Should I be doing more to get her to sleep more, like walking endlessly while wearing her though I have my son to take care of?
