Sleep update

We tried changing Baby B's bedtime to be earlier. I don't know why I thought we needed to do this... the result was an extra bit of napping (at night, leading up to falling asleep at her normal bedtime), and her waking up for the day between 4:30-5:30 in the morning. This is definitely not what I was hoping would happen.

We decided to go back to letting Baby fall asleep for the night on her own schedule, but kept the bedtime routine (bath, lotion, pajamas, books) and just started it a little later. She has been falling asleep around 9, 9:30 at the latest, but a couple of times closer to 8 (!) and once at 10, and sleeping much better. She usually stays asleep -- besides waking up to eat around 3:15 -- until a reasonable morning hour (6:30-7, I'd prefer later but oh well).

Now I am working on creating a regular morning nap so that I have some time in the morning to get some house work and work-work done, and so that Baby can catch up on sleep if needed. This has been successful so far, and has really helped me to plan out the rest of the day! Depending on how early she gets up, sometimes there is a short nap around 9, but the big nap comes at about 11:30, and usually lasts at least two hours! She usually gets another decent nap in the afternoon, around 4:30, and then sometimes a short one around 7 but we try to keep her from that one so she'll go to bed earlier.

I think it's a bit hard for her to adjust to a schedule because she is at daycare Tues/Thurs, so it's a little inconsistent. She still takes a nap at 11:30 at daycare, but only stays asleep for about half an hour, and then takes another nap not long after, and another in the afternoon. They still comment every day about how short her naps are, but I think she just has a tough time sleeping when there is so much going on that she does not want to miss!

I don't have a cute sleep picture to post, so I'll leave you with an unrelated but still cute picture!