False starts anyone?

My LO slept straight through from around 7 pm to 7 am in her own room until recently. Now every time I put her down she will wake within an hour and be incredibly difficult to get back down (can take over an hour). I thought this might be because she only ever sleeps 40 minutes at a time in the day and it's rare for her to clock 2+ hours nap time. So today, we did contact naps to get her a proper amount of sleep (got 2hrs 52 spread across 3 naps). She went to bed at 19:25 and STILL woke at 20:10. Only managed to get her back to sleep at 21:30 by lying down and lying her on my chest until she was FULLY asleep then sketchily transferring her back into her room and her cot by 21:45.

Does anyone have any clue why she keeps waking up? She does it no matter the length of the wake window beforehand as well!

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She only had a half day 8:30 till 1, but fell asleep in the buggy within minutes of leaving.

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