Agree with flying butter - Ds1 was like that for quite a bit; although it was more like 9-11pm bedtime. the end it was less stressful to accept that he was a night owl and not bother to try to get him to sleep earlier than 8:30; it's only in the past 3/4 months we've managed to go to bed regularly between 7 and 8:30pm.
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Make sure the day sleeps are in a light room.
Get her into the sunshine early in the morning.
Try to keep her awake from about 4pm and then settle her around 6:30-7
Make sure the room is dark and quiet when you feed her in the night.
Otherwise, just watch tv and doze on the sofa while she gurgles on the floor. Do you sleep in the day? You need to be getting a couple of hours every day...I wisH I'd done that more when dd was a baby, because you never get a chance with subsequent children.
Was going to suggest what Arcadia suggested, particularly with the day sleeps. If that fails, definately try to snooze when she is sleeping/dozing and try to go to bed early yourself. I used to go to bed around 8/8.30pm in the early days b/c DD would wake up for a feed at about 11/12pm.
I think from about eight weeks we stated keeping the little guy up from 4pm till bedtime at 6pm and we do bath, feed in a quiet place (my bedroom with lights off) and then to bed every night. Not sure if I'm just lucky but it seems to make it tick in his head that this is big sleep time and goes to bed easily at night.
Maybe LO is just a night owl and when she starts sleeping longer u might start getting a full nights sleep if heading off to bed at 1030? I hope so for you!
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