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@NovBaby1112: I was stressing about it, sometimes I would try to wait 10 mins before feeding her when she woke (usually around 2 or 3 am). Then we came home from vacation and she was really tired and she just started sleeping through!!! Hope your LO does the same soon

N is also down to two naps. He sleeps 8:30-8:30. with a 6am feeding. He gets 4 bottles and 3 solids a day. He naps around 12 and 4, I can't wait for him to drop that early morning feed!

@NovBaby1112: Not all of us have champion sleepers But little miss has finally stopped the whole scream-bloody-murder for an hour + at each night waking that started a couple weeks ago. Not fun. But she is still nursed/rocked to sleep at night and wakes 2-3 times.
Always 2 naps a day at daycare but the timing and length vary depending on the day. I am just happy if she gets at least 1.5 hrs total nap time on weekdays.

@kml636: @novbaby1112: We were up north at my family's lakehouse last week and our sleep went to hell. She was up EVERY hour (I wish I was exaggerating). We were sharing a cabin with my sister, her husband, and my 2yo niece so of course I popped out of bed the first peep I heard from her so we didn't wake up the whole house. She was never a good sleeper to begin with and this was just the icing on the cake. Not sure if she is teething too, but I've given up trying to figure it out. Last night was the first tolerable night in a few weeks...fingers crossed it continues. Good luck to you both!

@SLR: I know. Not only do my parents object if we let her fuss in the crib for a few minutes, but of course I'm not going to let her cry and wake everyone. It's so tricky. Just hoping it gets better at home!

are any of your LO's on a 6:30am ish- 8:00pm ish schedule with 2 naps? care to share your nap schedules?

@NovBaby1112: Us!

6:30: I wake her (she will sleep until 830/9 on the weekends), nurse, get ready to leave for work/daycare
8:30: Baby has breakfast at daycare (usually cereal/green puree)
10:00: Bottle (3oz breast milk, 3 oz formula)
11-12:30: Nap
12:30: Bottle (3 oz breast milk, 3 oz formula)
3-4:30: Nap
4: Bottle (3 oz breast milk, 3 oz formula)
6: Pickup from daycare
7: Bottle (4 oz of either breast milk or formula or combo, depending on what I have pumped and available in the fridge) plus dinner (Cereal or puree or banana, etc.)
8: Bottle (4 oz formula) right before bed
STTN 99% of the time.

Sometimes she will take an extra short nap in the evening either at daycare or at home. And if we are late getting her from daycare, they will give her another bottle there (6oz formula) and if that is the case, we skip the bottle at dinner time and just do one before she goes to bed.

@Tidybee: thanks for sharing!! at least she has that long afternoon nap! its hard when the naps are out of our control

@highwire: thanks! wow, she is able to go from 6:30 to 11?? I am trying to figure out how to stretch the morning awake time and the awake time after first nap so we don't have a huge gap between last nap and bedtime, and so we can keep our 8pm bedtime!

@kodybear: wow, you have an awesome napper!! thanks for sharing your schedule, that helps!

@NovBaby1112: hah well those are on non-daycare days (i work 2 days from home). daycare days... who knows what the naps are like. usually average 45min each 3 times a day. so i also think she's catching up on sleep on non daycare days.

We're still on a 3 nap schedule. Her naps are so bad at daycare (~25 minutes), she usually falls asleep on the way or right after getting home. I don't see that changing until she is able to nap better there during the day.

@turkeylurkey: Welcome!

@turkeylurkey: welcome!! i have a turkey day baby too!

@turkeylurkey: Welcome! My LO was around 7 pm on Nov 21st, so just a few hours older than yours!

C has been taking MARATHON naps on the weekends. On Sunday, she took a nap from 11-330 (!!!) and then another from 6-8 and went down for the night at 845.

During the week she only naps for about 2 hours total at daycare and I always wake her for the day, she never is awake as early as we need to get ready and go (7 AM). I guess she is making up for it on the weekends.

@highwire: Um, Can I borrow C to teach Em a few things about sleeping?!

Em napped a whopping 20 mins at daycare yesterday. But she is getting soooo much better at night.

@SLR: That's crazy. L is always exhausted after daycare. Hope your nights get better!

@turkeylurkey: E usually takes a late nap and it rarely seems to affect her night time sleep or wake up time the next day. I'm not sure if that's the norm though.

I seriously need help... For the past four nights, our formerly good sleeper (7 pm - 5:30 am) has been waking at 12 midnight screaming as though she is being skinned alive. It's just so not like her we thought it had to have been teeth, ear infection, cold, night terrors, wonder week... so we put her in bed with us. And I've fed her out of desperation. But I definitely DON'T want to make those things a habit.

I've done some CIO and sleep training with her since she was tiny, but this is different. When she gets so hysterical I just think that can't be good for her.

Just hoping things get better, last night we tried laying with her next to the crib and she screamed for a straight hour before we put her in bed with us and I fed her. HELP.

@kml636: eek! hmm if she was STTN before I would think it may be teething... could you try giving her some tylenol and see if she is better after? i was gonna say my LO did this out of the blue a couple nights ago and i had no idea what to do! luckily i think she was just dreaming as she went back to sleep after 10 min. 1 hour is a long time tho so it sounds like she might be in some pain or sick or something! if it were me i'd probably try some type of pain relief to eliminate that as the problem.