Lysh - that is great! My girls were always grumpy between last nap and bedtime when young babies. Jordan has gotten much better about that recently but she needs lots of attention after dinner.
Megan - I honestly don't believe in wonder weeks. No one can convince me that when no kids learn to roll over at exactly the same time, crawl at the same time, first word at exactly the same week. They all learn different things at different times. Megan had stranger anxiety by 4 months. Jordan didn't have it that early. Jordan clapped before Megan did. Megan rolled before Jordan. Whenever Megan learned anything - whether it was something obvious like crawling or something less obvious it always affected her sleep. She was a very early talker and many times has had bad nights sleep because of practicing talking in her bed or crib. A few nights of horrible sleep and then we realize she was in the process of learning something.
Certain - up to you which way you want to go, if you want to tackle bedtime first. Do you do a nap routine?
Megan - I honestly don't believe in wonder weeks. No one can convince me that when no kids learn to roll over at exactly the same time, crawl at the same time, first word at exactly the same week. They all learn different things at different times. Megan had stranger anxiety by 4 months. Jordan didn't have it that early. Jordan clapped before Megan did. Megan rolled before Jordan. Whenever Megan learned anything - whether it was something obvious like crawling or something less obvious it always affected her sleep. She was a very early talker and many times has had bad nights sleep because of practicing talking in her bed or crib. A few nights of horrible sleep and then we realize she was in the process of learning something.
Certain - up to you which way you want to go, if you want to tackle bedtime first. Do you do a nap routine?
I do make the room dark and put her in her sleeping bag, we also still use white noise so I put that on. I have started to find that she needs a nap 3 hours after waking and then about 3 hours after waking from that nap so I have been trying do that a bit. It tends to work for the morning one but not the afternoons very often. She generally has 2 30min naps a day but i know she needs more 
LO has a snuggly little dog that she cuddles while I'm nursing her and then he goes in the crib with her. She often plays with and snuggles him when she's trying to fall asleep
this used to bean occasional thing but since she's had a cold it's gotten to be every night now. I know she's okay she's not hungry, nappy okay, not feeling I'll (I know the cry) she's just got into this habit of waking up and once she's awake she wants to be down stairs I'm knackered lol I just sit here until she's ready to go back to bed and even then she doesn't usually go right to sleep, she cries and fusses a bit.
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Mommy's nerves are shot tonight. I have tremendous mother's guilt about returning to work in 2 weeks and right now her crying is like a knife in my gut.
