We *might* have had a breakthrough. Maybe. I'm not dancing yet, but I'm feeling better. I was starting to absolutely dread bedtime, and it would break my heart to even try to get her down. After Monday's heart-wrenching time, I sat down and very obsessively wrote a minute-by-minute bedtime ritual. We stopped the early morning nap. And I resigned myself to just getting through this.
I don't know what worked, but for the last two nights she has gone to sleep within 5 minutes of me putting her in the crib. I'm still patting her back and shushing her, but there's minimal screaming and writhing. She's also had two days of very predictable naptime at daycare (one 1 1/2 hour nap late morning and another 30 minute nap later in the day).
It's likely we'll have sleep issues again at some point, but I'm feeling a tiny bit more confident. Oh -- and she slept from 7pm until almost 7am this morning! I brought her to bed at 10pm to nurse and she did nurse about 5 times throughout the night, but never woke up. She was in a very good mood this morning.
*deep breath* Now Mommy needs to get some sleep!
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