I have spent January haphazardly following my plans from the No Cry Nap Solution and (along the same lines really) the No-Cry Sleep Solution. Which actually translates mostly to doing the Pantley Pull-off most of the time, and lying down with her to go to sleep (as opposed to sitting in the rocking chair, where I inevitably end up rocking even if I mean not to) occasionally.
I planned to lie down with her more, the idea being that I could then get up and leave her, but it's actually not all that comfortable, and beside, then I can't read a book. ;-/
Anyway, for the past few days I have been succeeding in putting her down once she's asleep, and - more than half the time - having her stay asleep for a while. Most times she's woken up between 20 and 50 minutes later, but all but one time I've been able to get her straight back to sleep for the other half of her nap. And then this afternoon she slept for 2 hours without stirring!
Of course, that was 2 hours that started around the time her nap usually ends, so now at 8pm she is wide awake.* But hey, I went down and tried to gently wake her in the middle and she just rolled onto her back and kept sleeping, so what are you going to do? I didn't want to ruin her record setting effort.
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*Of course, this is not what Elizabeth Pantley recommends, she would suggest a regular nap time and regular bedtime, but we do usually do that, I swear.
