u/AnazitontasOurano

My 6.5MO has been on 2 naps since the beginning of May and had wonderfully consolidated naps up until recently. Every day her 2nd nap is cut short and she wakes up before the 45 minute mark. What could be going on?

Schedule: 3/3.5/3.75
Nap total 3h
Night total: 10h45m

Her nights max out at 10h45m roughly and limiting daytime sleep does not seem to help, it just causes her to go into a cycle of overtiredness where she gets less and less sleep until she bottoms at 12h total sleep.

It doesn’t seem to be overtiredness, I tried cutting back her wake window some and it didn’t make a difference. Lengthening the window just causes her to fuss and eventually fall asleep while nursing.

This has been going on for about a week now and crib60 doesn’t seem to help either she will just scream cry and then when I try to rescue afterwards she won’t fall back asleep. Is this just a developmental thing I need to wait out or. Plus there be a possible schedule issue?

LO turned 6M on 5/4. We went on a 10 day long vacation to visit family that week and I expected sleep to deteriorate some, but it is just getting worse and worse.

Current schedule - 3.25-3.5/3.5/3.75

DWT - 6:45ish
Bedtime - 8pm

There is a range because we are losing our minds trying to figure out her awake time and honestly it’s just getting worse.

According to huckleberry her 7 day average is 13hrs of sleep total, her 14 day average is 13h10m. Her naps average 2.5hrs so nights are around 10.5 hrs. This total is taking into account her night wakings as I usually pause the sleep time when I start the feed timer. If we didn’t take into account the feeds her nights would be 10.75hrs roughly. She is EBF but I do give her 1 5oz bottle before bed so I know she has a good feed to start the night.

She was previously a great napper and we would have to wake her from her all of her naps. She would sleep through until about 4-5:30am then 1 snooze feed and sleep until 7am before our vacation. All of this went to crap during the vacation and she kept refusing her third nap leading us to drop it and move to a 2 nap schedule. I didn’t really want to drop to 2 naps in the middle of a vacation but the alternative was her being awake for 6hrs straight so we had no choice.

Night wakings increased and now she is waking sometimes around 11pm, screaming through her Ferber intervals until I give up and feed her because I can’t get her to sleep any other way, and then still waking around 3-4am for a second feed then up for the day at 6:45ish. I am doing night alone so I am completely exhausted.
Her naps are sometimes great and sometimes I have to rescue them because she will wake after 35-45mins screaming no matter what I do. I try to rock her back to sleep as a last resort.

I just don’t know what to do. Things were going great before and she napped like a dream and slept relatively well. Am I possibly giving her too much awake time? I followed the advice given last time I posted and now I am wondering if she is just in a constant state of overtired, not under tired.

Edit to add: she was Ferber trained at 4 months and nap trained at 4.5 months.