We're doing a modified version of the Jay Gordon method with my 14 month old DD and last night was night 7. I modified it because she goes 4-6 hours a day during the week without nursing (b/c of part time daycare), which is a big deal with her super restricted diet (due to alot of food intolerances) which hardly allows for fat intake in particular. But we nurse almost hourly (or more, sometimes for like an hour straight) all afternoon, so that by bedtime she is "caught up." But I made the time I don't nurse her from 11pm-4am, just a straight 5 hours instead of 7 because that's the minimum amount I need to function for my job (with another 2 hours at the tail end). I have to admit she's been somewhat put out the last few nights, and the first couple of nights we had some wakeful periods, with some bit not a lot of crying. She mainly had some trouble settling. Since then we've had a minute or two of crying before she will lie back down and cuddle back to sleep. (She sleep in a twin next to our queen bed though she joins me in bed around 4-5am - all our beds are on the floor).
The dilemma I am having is what to do is she doesn't wake up before 11 pm to nurse. She goes down between 7 and 8 pm and usually wakes up around 9:30-10:30 for another nurse. The last couple of nights she hasn't and I've woken her up (not all the way) and nursed her so that her 5 hour stretch isn't inadvertantly a 9 hour one! Last night she still woke up at 2:30 (I think, not having to nurse is making these wakeups alot less disruptive for me) but then went back to sleep until 5am (at which point I nursed her and she went back to sleep until 6:30.
Should I keep waking her up to nurse before 11pm? Or just let her sleep and not give her boob until 4am? I want to be consistent and not nurse from 11-4.
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