Hoping for some suggestions, because getting up at 4 a.m. every day is getting OLD!
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DD is 14 month old and has always preferred an early bedtime. In the past she slept from about 6 p.m. - 5:30 a.m., then took two 40 minute naps, or sometimes one 1:20 and one 40 minute nap each day. We had a solid bedtime routine of dinner, bath, books, bottle, bed.Â
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Lately I think she's trying to switch to one nap, but it's not really working. She starts by waking up at 4 a.m., even if she went to bed later than usual. She signs for a bottle, I give it to her, then pretend to sleep until 5 while she flip flops around on the bed trying to sleep too, eventually giving up and playing until I let her out of the room. She's going down for a nap around 9 a.m. It's the most cooperative she's ever been about napping in her whole life. She sleeps for an hour and twenty minutes, and for the past week or so just hasn't managed to get down for a second nap at all. BUT she's exhausted by 4:30 - 5 p.m. I push her through dinner, she refuses her bath, cries through diaper and pjs and falls right asleep to her bottle (it's usually about 5:30 - 6 by this point), then stays asleep for the night. It seems like she wants to pull bedtime earlier and earlier and earlier, making her whole schedule kind of rotate. There must be a sleep deficit somewhere in there, but I'm just not sure where. I think ordinarily I'd think that I should put her to bed for the night earlier, because she seems to want that, but...she's already in bed at 5:30. It's totally ridiculous to have it be earlier, and we might end up awake for the day at 3 a.m. instead of 4. Double yuck!
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Any ideas out there?
