18 Month Old EMW & Short Nap
**TLDR: 18 month old daughter is on a 1 nap schedule but she won’t sleep longer than 1-1.5 hours. She’s is also having EMW around 4-5:30am, if I nurse her back to sleep she’ll sleep for another 1.5 hours. WW’s are 5.5 hrs & 4.5 hrs. TIA**
My 18 month old daughter has been a great sleep since early on, we formally sleep trained her around 6 months. She has been consistently sleeping from 7:30pm-7am & was taking 2 naps each lasting 1-2hrs.
After transitioning her to 1 nap we’ve been struggling with her sleep. She will only sleep 1-1.5 hours. As soon as she wakes up, she stands up in her crib starts crying hysterically. I’ve tried letting her cry it out, and have also tried going in there to try to settle her back down, but if she see screams for milk. If I nurse her, she falls back asleep immediately & will sleep for another hour.
She has also been waking anywhere from 4am-5:30am consistently for around a month. I let her cry and watch her through the monitor, but she will not settle back down & gets super frustrated. The longest I let her cry is about 20 minutes. I typically end up going in there and hold her for a while. She basically begs for milk the entire time but sometimes I can get her to lay her head on my shoulder. If I nurse her, she eats 1/2 of one side & then she is good for me to lay her down (she doesn’t fall asleep on me, she’s just content with that much), she then sleep for 1-1.5 hours more.
Her current wake windows are 5.5 hrs, then 4.5