Hi there,
I saw that your last reply was a month ago, so I'm bumping this thread. Have you had any luck yet? We're facing our own sleep struggles right now with DD2, who is 10 months.
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Hi there,
I saw that your last reply was a month ago, so I'm bumping this thread. Have you had any luck yet? We're facing our own sleep struggles right now with DD2, who is 10 months.
We have had some improvement. Honestly the biggest help was her starting daycare! She doesn't get the 1.5-2 hour arm nap until 5:30 in the evening, so shes more tired and goes to bed more willingly. Luckily she does nap at daycare... Usually not amazingly, but she'll most often take 3 or 4 half hour naps, some days 1 of them will stretch to an hour. I know they say that being overtired is worse, but either she's just different about it, or maybe she's not *over*tired, just tired. She still cries sometimes, but not nearly as much.
I do think she was a highly demanding baby, and that daycare has also had to help her to learn to self-entertain a little bit more, and not need to nearly constantly be held. We still hold her plenty, but now we can also eat a meal without getting down to change up her toys 15 times (now only a few times). The first couple weeks at daycare were hard - crying ever day by pickup time - but she adjusted by roughly the end of the second week, and I honestly think we're all better off for it.
Morning-wise, we've had to adjust to her. 8 AM is sleeping in - 6 to 7 is more common! I guess the trade off for getting some evening times to yourself is no more late mornings. We try to get to bed by 9 to 10. Although we try to alternate being the first one up and letting the other sleep later on weekends.
So from my sample size of 1 (high needs :) ) baby, part of our issue might have been her napping too much at least late in the day. And while I love her very much, I think it can be a good thing for them to learn that, while they are a very important part of it your world, they also sometimes have to wait a little while.
Of course, i don't really know what your experience is, and, my now nearly 5 month old is a very different developmental state than your 10 month old as well.