Ruby isn't much of a day time sleeper either, the cheeky monkey.

She will sleep brilliantly overnight - she has a bath, bottle and then bed (around 7pm lights out) and she only wakes once overnight for a feed, and goes straight back to sleep until around 7 am (sometimes later!)

Up until around 8w, Ruby slept well during the day also, but these past couple of weeks have been particularly foul during the day! The past two days, she has slept for a grand total of 1 hour on each day (broken up in as little as 5 or 10 minute lots can you believe as this is all I can get out of her). The two days before that though, she slept wonderfully well and it led me into a false sense of security thinking that the difficult week we'd had before that had passed! Not so!! LOL

I'm finding it particularly hard work as I have a very active 2 y.o as well and Ruby is tired after being awake for 1.5 hours - I can get her to sleep easy enough, but getting her to stay asleep is another issue. If she were awake all day and happy then I wouldn't have a problem with that, but the fact is that I know my Ruby.....and she IS tired after 1.5 hours awake time and needs sleep, so it's currently creating a vicious cycle where she gets over-tired and I'm finding myself having to carry her most of the day, which with a bad back, is not doing me any good.

I'm hoping that it is just a stage and will pass! I'm sure it will, it is just very draining ATM.