Overtired baby - am I getting wake windows wrong or does my baby need more naps?
Hello, first time posting here.
I have a 5.5 old baby who is recently sleep trained (via extinction method). During the day he seems to get tired/shows sleepy cues a lot earlier into the ww and gets significantly cranky. I thought we had transitioned from 4 to 3 naps about a month ago, but I am now feeling quite lost and question whether I even understand my baby anymore!
Bedtime is around 18:45-19:00. Wakes up between 06:30 and 07:00 (around 05:30 he starts to fuss but is able to go back to sleep). 1st wake window is usually 2 hrs but today, for example, he woke up at 06:45 and after 1h30min (roughly 08:15) he was already rubbing his eyes so clearly he was already overtired? I wasn't sure whether to follow the sleepy cues and put him down then or stretch it a bit according to the ww because if I went with the former the day just shifts to earlier and earlier and we end up with a very long last ww, or a super early bedtime. I put him down at 08:30 and it took him about 15min to fall asleep, so by 08:45. He then woke up at 09:41. I tried to play a bit with him but he was cranky and also rubbed his eyes a little - do you think I should have rescued the nap and made him sleep longer?
The last ww is usually really tricky and he starts showing sleepy cues from 18:00 :(