Ty so much for your response! And sorry it's taken a while for me to get back to you... its been a busy week
So, I understand that at this age she may not be able to self soothe, btu I guess my question is, what do I do to avoid creating more of a sleep crutch than necessary? Also, i dont even have any one thing that always works for her.. rocking etc only sometimes works. How exactly do I do shush pat? Is there a link for it with dtails somewhere? When you say concentrate on one nap per day, you mean focus with one nap and bedtime using shush pat to get her down?
Re: night/day confusino, the only reason I believe it to be an issue is because generally she is not a fussy baby, thank gd, but her one fussy period does always happen between 11pm-2 am, not every night but when she's gassy and uncomfrotable its always then, and her first sleep period of the day is uusally till about 11 am, as in she takes a very long stretch in the morning, which makes me think it's her "night".
Right now we dont have much of a schedule, Ive just been folliwng her cues. She usually eats every 3/4 hours during the day, and takes a longer stretch at night of about 5/6/7 hours, its been quite unpredictable but she can definitely go a long stretch at night. HOw do i begin to give her more structured days? Would love her long sleep stretches to be between say, 8 and 8 or so.
Thank you so much! I hope this doesnt come across as too much of a ramble, just somehwat sleep deprived as LO was up until 2 am and then my big boys were up at 6! zzzzz