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Holy still sleeping!
Ok, it's 8:30 now! I want to wake her up so badly but I guess she needs her sleep? She was up a lot last night, so maybe she's tired? Jeez, this is soooo weird.
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Re: Holy still sleeping!
Unless this is impacting her day-time and her sleep-patters at night, I'd think this is a good thing
If it is though, have you considered trying to put her down earlier?
She could also be going through a growth spurt too and just needs to sleep a lot, too.
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I just saw your other post. I bet it's definitely related to the wakeups at night... I hope you guys can figure everything out and get on a better schedule soon
We leave K with a sippie in her bed of water every night, she doesn't drink the whole thing but it's there if she's thirsty. I haven't had too many nights of soaking through, thankfully... maybe just get rid of the milk entirely and leave water, which is less appetizing?
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She goes to bed around 7:30 (which is later now than it was at 7pm, because we thought it may help with the nighttime festivities). She gets tired and says "I want to take a nap" and she starts heading for the stairs. She goes to bed fine! I give her the milk, walk out and she goes to sleep on her own. I admit I got her into this milk habit because she was so so far below the 3rd percentile for a long time and I didn't want to deny her the milk at night. And so she got hooked I guess.
She was sleeping well at night for the most part until maybe 5am and then would take a little milk and go back to sleep until 6 or 6:30. That was fine too.
Then we started this daycare and I believe the separation anxiety kicked in and caused the majority of this problem. Yes there were night wakings before, with teething or colds mostly, and yes he gave her milk when she woke up (again because she was such a poor eater I thought maybe she needed it) but mostly she slept without it, so it was not seeming like such a huge deal.
Now she's up a lot more and wants milk every time. Also, she always wants one of us to hold the cup. She is using it like a paci so she doesn't want to hold it. I am watering it down in the hopes of getting to just water, but most likely she will still want someone else to hold it.
As for the late sleeping lately, I am guessing you are right, maybe a combo of the night wakings and a growth spurt. She has not had one in a while, so that makes sense.
I have a couple of follow up questions. I'm not an MD like you, but...
How is she eating during the day?
What is her attitude like?
I'm asking, because do you think she could also be teething? I mean it's about prime time for her to be getting the rest of her teeth over these next few months, so that growth spurt, could be a growth spurt happening in her mouth too -- where the pain from teething is keeping her up, and she's sleeping later to make up for it.
I ask about the teething, because whenever G broke out teeth he would refuse to eat anything but soft foods and liquids. Milk and yogurt was what he was surviving on for the most part.
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I do think she is teething, you are right. I was noticing it more last week, with the soft foods and poor eating and I was giving her ibuprofen at night but then I thought maybe it was not helping that much and so I stopped. I gave it again last night and it really helped. She slept great until it wore off
She even told me she had an owie. Last week I remember she said her mouth hurt too. Thanks for the reminder, I bet that is a huge part of it.