Is there anything I can do to fix split nights?
For the past month and a half my baby (7.5 months) has been having a 1-2.5 hr wake window starting at 1-3 am. It feels like actual torture. Sometimes she’s just moving around and vocalizing but it’s also a lot of crying and fussing. Tonight she woke up at 3 and is still up at 5:30. My son’s going to wake up in half an hour and I honestly just want to cry.
She has a lot going on, she’s on the verge of real crawling (instead of army crawling), she’s had a stuffy/runny nose for over two weeks, and she’s probably teething her lateral incisors on the top. She’s also eating a good amount of solids.
Average day for her is up at 6am, nap at 10ish (1-2 hrs) and another nap at 3ish (I always wake her up by 4:15 at the latest. Bedtime around 7-7:30. Should I shorten naps or try to drop the second all together?
My son was a terrible sleeper and woke every 1-2 hrs for the first year which was a different kind of hell. He never had long wake periods in the night. But at least I could sleep in with him or nap w him. I don’t have that option anymore and I feel like my sanity is hanging on by a thread.
Any advice?