Except for the afternoon, it does seem that Anna has fallen into a little bit of a sleeping schedule. Of course, I'm sure as soon as I make note of it and record it here, it will change. But I'm not superstitious (I don't really believe that Anna sleeps better in her yellow swattle compared to her pink swattle. These two swattles are exactly the same except for color, but I swear that she tends to get up once a night if she is wearing the yellow swattle and twice a night if she is wearing the pink swattle. I only recently came up with this theory when I noticed that she has spells of sleeping well - a series of yellow swattle days and spells of sleeping not so well - a series of pink swattle days. We'll see. I just switched to the yellow swattle permanently* so this ridiculous theory can be proven wrong.) So since I'm not superstitious, I'll give it a go at documenting Anna's sleeping schedule here:
In the past week, Anna has gotten up at about 6:15 am everyday. The best explanation for this may be that Matt gets up at 5:50 am. Given that she may be sleeping pretty lightly at this point, these 25 minutes may just be the result of the time it takes for her to hear him, her to wake up, and her to wake me up. Or maybe she just has a personal internal clock that is now set for 6:15?!?!
At 6:15 she usually eats and only stays up until 8-8:30ish. At this point she begins her superstar morning nap until 11:30. I'm not sure if this is really a nap or just a continuation of her night sleep. I'm guessing at some point she will sleep a little later and this nap will get a little shorter, but maybe not! (Of course at some point this nap won't even exist. I hoping that by the time this nap does not exist she is sleeping through the night such that I'm not needing this time to go back to bed!)
From 11:30 am until bedtime (somewhere between 8:30 and 9:45 pm), I can't really say there is any kind of schedule, except for the fact that Anna will probably nap for about 2 - 3 more hours. This could be one long nap (probably 1:30-4:30 pm), two naps, or even three short naps! The 3 short naps day probably is going to be the most fussy & probably is mom's least favorite - especially when the end of the first short nap leaves mom wondering if there will be no more naps and she is up until 8:30!! (which has happened)
During the night Anna either gets up once or twice. Either way she is usually not up that long - just to eat & go back to sleep.
The one deviation from this schedule this week was Wed. night. Anna was acting particularly tired in the evening so we put her to bed at 8:00. Ah-ha - we knew that her bed time would keep getting earlier and earlier. But...I guess she thought that was a nap because she got up at 9:15 and stayed up until 11:30 - silly goose!
* I say permanently, but actually we just decided to try to ditch the swattle all together. The plan is to move to one are out of the swattle this week, two arms out next week, and poof - it will be gone in two weeks! We'll see :)
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