I usually resettle DD for her day naps if she will. She is rocked or fed to sleep. She then usually wakes between 45 mins to 1 hr and I pick her up and rock her again and she goes back to sleep. Sometimes I can put her back down and sometimes I can't. She will then continue to sleep til her total sleep is 1.5-2hrs. She has 2 naps a day.
Night sleeps are terrible STILL!! She wakes AT LEAST 3 times a night. I feed her back to sleep whenever she wakes bc it's the easiest way and I do not have the energy to get up!
I'm wondering if me resettling during the day is effecting her night time sleep. Maybe she keeps waking wanting to be rocked or held like I do during the day? I know if she's tired she can go into that next sleep cycle bc she sometimes rolls around a bit and settles again and sleeps for 1.5hrs on her own. So should I stop it? Will she learn that if she wakes up and doesn't go back to sleep I'm not going to rock her so she better keep sleeping if she's tired, lol.
I usually just resettle bc I don't want to deal with grumpiness and want her to have good sleep bc she's not sleeping well at night. Maybe she's getting too much day sleep and would sleep better at night if I let her have shorter naps??
Have faith!
If you feel she needs that extra sleep, then keep doing it. Just based on my own experience I doubt it would help if she were even more tired. At that age, 1.5-2 hours per sleep is probably ok.
She will eventually sleep through. When, I can't tell you, but it will happen. Even if you do absolutely nothing to try and change her
I would just keep resettling too. I found that ds would need resettling for a bit then he would just find his own pattern and sleep longer. Some days though if he wakes grumpy and its only been under an hour, i still resettle but its very rare. DOnt shorten the day sleep in hope for abetter night sleep - imo, it doesnt work. I find that good day sleep = good night sleep. FWIW - ds still wakes up around midnight and needs one of us to go in and give him a shhhh and a pat - then he is fine and sleeps till morning.
I don't have any advice, but I'll tell you what I do.
DS usually has two sleeps a day - one is about 40 mins, the other is 1.5+ hours. I don't resettle DS after that 40 min sleep, as he is usually wide awake and quite happy.
As I've probably mentioned to you before, DS also doesn't sleep well at night. Usually at least 3 wake ups, but often more... though having said that, last night he only woke twice - bliss!!!
I'd say just keep doing what keeps your DD happiest - no one wants a grumpy, tired baby!
Should I stop resettling??
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