Night Eight

I know people reading this are probably totally frustrated with me. They keep saying you are all over the place, you need to pick one routine and stick with it, you are confusing her.... I know. I really do. But when you feel like you have tried everything, you don't know what to try next and when you are in the moment and something is not working, you want to try something else, anything else to get her back to sleep.
I found a website called Sleep Baby and they had some great advice and I felt like she was actually talking to me! I realized that Isabella is completely overtired and should be napping way more then she does. I have been afraid to put her down for naps thinking she won't sleep at night and I was sooo wrong. See, like I said before, just because I have 3 kids doesn't mean I know everything... I'm starting to realize, I don't think I have a damn clue about anything lol
I also bought a sound therapy machine yesterday (which is totally awesome, I want to buy one for everyone I know!)
So after reading about the naps, Bella had been up for just under 2 hours and she was yawning and rubbing her eyes, normally, I wouldn't have thought to put her back down because she had pretty much just gotten up but I decided to try this advice out along with the sound machine.
I nursed her but put her down awake and turned the sound machine on and left the room. She cried for 3 minutes then was out! She slept for another 2 hours.
So at bedtime, I cut out the bath as the website that baths can actually engage babies instead of relaxing them and this is what we were finding with Bells. I did still do the massage but switched to an all natural lotion to keep our routine still somewhat normal, nursed her and put her down awake and turned my new favorite machine on. Again, she cried for about 5 minutes then was out. Now to see what the rest of the night would bring....
She did wake up an hour later so I went in to resettle her and put her back down. She did cry for about 20 minutes until Don told me to go back in lol I was so surprised that I was so non emotional about letting her cry. I guess you just get to a point where you know there is nothing else you can do. But i did go back in, nursed her quick and again but her down awake to the white noise and she was out. Is it bad that I'm now okay with letting her cry as I'm finding she sleeps better after a good cry? lol
She slept the rest of the night until 3am. I went in and again, a quick nurse and put her down and white noise on.... and she has been sleeping ever since and it's going on 9am.
This week will be all about getting her naps in place and still working on putting her down awake.
At least, I know feel like I have some sort of direction and maybe a bit of a plan now....