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SLEEP => Sleeping For Toddlers => Topic started by: Mystic on September 09, 2005, 12:54:28 pm
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Here is what our routine looked like yesterday and this morning:
Yesterday:
He woke up at 7:00am but only because he did not go to bed until 8:30pm. Since he slept until 7:00am I could push his nap to noon. We are working on taking only one nap it varies everyday. He slept from noon to 2:00pm. Then he was asleep for the night at 7:00pm. He did get 14 hours this day. He is getting 14 or so hours every other day.
Today (so far):
He woke up at 5:30am this morning. For some reason he will only sleep 10.5 hours at night. I would understand if that was all he needed but he is having a hard time making it until his next sleep period. It is only 8:00am now so we have not gone down for our nap yet. Today will be a two nap nap because of the early morning which means he will go to bed at 8:30pm and sleep until 7:00am.
I really have no idea where to go from here. Nothing I try works. Somedays its 14 hours of sleep he gets then some it may only be 12 hours. Any suggestions?
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It is so hard to make that transition to one nap. There are going to be days when you get exactly what you want for sleep and others that aren't so good. :?
My son is 14 months and iwas doing the same thing. I couldn't stand the inconsistency so I have decided to only do one nap no matter what time he wakes. When he wakes at 6:30 or 7 we can do a noon nap but on days like today when he wakes at 5:30, I put him down at 11. I try to stay as close as I can to the 12 o'clock nap so that his body clock knows what to expect and so he doesn't have too long after his nap until bedtime. I also put him to bed each night at 7. I was doing exactly the same as you and I had a 7pm bedtime one night and then 8:30 when he had to take a second nap. So I just bit the bullet and went to one nap. The transition took about 2 weeks to set in but it did finally work. Now he takes a two hour nap and goes to bed at 7 each night.
I hope that helps.
Jess
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The inconsistency is what is driving me nuts, so I am going to try to stick with one nap. That does sound like the best thing to do. Thank you so much for the advice.
Christi
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What I did is just a set time...for just transitioning I chose 11:00...I would give Carmela a snack at 10:30 a.m. and then start our nap routine. She would sleep from 11-1 .... then she would go to bed at 7 p.m. each night. I found she slept better on the days of one nap and would wake around 6:30ish. No matter what time she woke though, her nap was at 11....
After a few weeks, I pushed it back to 11:30 and now we're at 12. Although we did regress a bit and I'm now considering making it 11 again and "starting over" just because I was putting her to bed late for awhile :oops: and we never really got back into the swing of things....so now I find she's falling asleep in the car at 9:30 :roll:
It's always a work in progress. Good luck. Forgot to add that my daughter is 16.5 months.