"Help me doctor--she needs to sleep!!!"
Maybe not verbatim, but that was pretty much my only question/concern when asked. Honestly my sleep isn't even all that effected. Now that she's not waking up during the night I am still getting a (mostly) full night of sleep. The problem is--she's not! She's not falling asleep until 8 and then still getting up around 5. This girl does not do well on 9 hours of night time sleep. And unfortunately her daytime sleep isn't making up the difference.
Her naps have also become a source of stress as she's only sleep about an hour each time and waking up a bear Something needs to change.
Doctor's advice?
Let her self-sooth to sleep (that's my nice way of saying cry it out--which I do not have any problems with but wanted a clean bill of health and assurance that there were not teeth in sight before proceeding. Honestly it hadn't even dawned on me for some reason and it felt like I got the permission I didn't realize I was looking for!).
AND
Make the transition to one nap a day
Even though we are traveling tomorrow I went ahead and started on the first point tonight. She cried for about 20-30 minutes (on and off) before going to sleep around 7:45 so already we are on track to getting her a little more sleep:).
She continues to be a big, strong girl and is consistently 85th percentile across the board for height, weight and head.
I also rectified my brief stint as an "Anti-Vax" Mama:). At the 12 month appointment I decided I wanted more time to figure out whether the chicken pox vaccine was necessary. Because clearly I am going to be a doctor so I'm wiser than the CDC, AAP, and a host of others (insert eye roll). After doing a little digging even though I had the chicken pox and survived (which is always a sound argument:/) there are a host of other issues that can arise so girlfriend is now up to date with all of her vaccines and will get to avoid missing a week of school and some itching when she hits elementary school.
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