Sleeping

I don't really know what's going on with her sleep lately.

I've been nursing her to sleep since that's what works. She is no longer able to put herself to sleep. I don't know exactly when she lost the ability. I used to lay her down in the crib drowsy but still awake. I think one day she just started to fall asleep while she was nursing and then not wake up when I put her in the crib. Now if she wakes up when I'm putting her in the crib we have to start all over.

She has an evil internal alarm clock that wakes her up after 30 minutes. I used to be able to go in and nurse her back to sleep but now she seems to think that bedtime was just another nap.

Sometimes if I bring her downstairs and feed her again while we're watching TV she'll fall asleep and then we can put her in the crib without waking her up. Last night I tried that and she started playing. She talked to JR for, probably, an hour. Eventually she did go to sleep around 11 (much better than 1am the previous night).

She slept until 9 this morning. Ideally she'd sleep 8-8 and have two 1-1.5 hour naps. Right now it's looking more like 11 - 9 with God only knows how many naps and for how long.

Yesterday and today her morning naps have been pretty long 1.5 hours +. Maybe her night time sleep is being weird because she's learning how to sleep longer during the day. *fingers crossed*

It's just annoying because she's tired around 8 and she falls asleep just fine. Then she's up after a half hour and we're fighting to get her back to sleep for the rest of the night. It seems silly, like maybe we should just keep her up later if she's going to be awake. But she's tired so I have no idea.

Also, I want to get some stuff done around the house and if I'm spending three hours every night trying to put the baby to sleep that puts a pretty big kink in my plans.