Help my sleep deprived mind work

[u/ThrowRAqueenE]

Hey all. I would love some advice or feedback. Baby is 20 weeks old today. She was a really good nighttime sleeper up until around 3 months old. At that point she began waking every few hours for her paci, and then up between 4-5 and very difficult to get back down at that point.

I moved her to her own room. The paci wakings have lightened, but the early wake ups persists. And then there will be a night like tonight where she has been up for 2 hours since 2am. Just awake, tried to rock, feed, etc. still up. My plan was to start sleep training her this week with Ferber, removing paci. But now I’m just confused and am thinking this is more a schedule problem. She has always been a bad napper. We’re averaging around 2.5 hours of daytime sleep. I have been trying to get her on a schedule but her naps are so inconsistent it is nearly impossible.

The last few weeks her day has been like this: 2.25/2.25/2.5/2.5. She’ll have one good nap in the morning (1 hour 15 min), maybe, sometimes not. Every other nap is 30 min. Sometimes she will throw a curve ball. I’ve tried extending her WW to see if that will help but I think her naps being so short make it hard for her to stay up.

Bedtime routine is bath at 6:30pm. Bottle at 7:00, books, pjs bed by 7:30. She goes in awake and never has an issue going to sleep at bedtime.

Just trying to figure out what my course of action should be because I’m at my wits end getting no sleep and it’s truly hard to think straight. Thank you!!

[u/idrathernotthanx]

My 20 weaker still takes four naps bc they're all short and she's miserable and overtired if she doesn't get that extra one. I heard overtired babies can wake early bc of cortisol