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Switched to 1 nap, now it's getting shorter!
« on: September 16, 2009, 20:09:55 pm »
So I switched Spencer to one nap cold turkey about 4 months ago (once we did it there was no going back) Very rarely on a bad day at daycare she'd crash for 15 or 20 mins at 2:30/3:00, but no more. On days at home she used to easily do a 3 hour nap, so our day looked like this:

7:00 - up for the day
12:00 - nap
3:00 - up from nap
7:00 - bedtime

She's very religious about that 7pm bedtime (no matter when the nap ends), we have even dropped Masyn's nap to keep her at that bedtime too, but now the trouble is the nap is only 1.5 - 2 hours at home and at daycare it's a crapshoot as to whether it will be 45 min or 2 hours (they have more babies now that schools back in session so less time to work on her nap)

I cannot even think of a NW or EW since she was 7 or 8 months old, even with teething, GS, sickness, etc. so I don't think it is that, but she has started talking in sentences lately (DH does not believe me but I swear she said "what does kitty say?" the other day!) Could it be developmental or just that she doesn't need as much sleep?

I'll stop before this gets too long ;D...I'm kind of just sounding things out here, not sure if I should be tweaking something or just let her be. 

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Re: Switched to 1 nap, now it's getting shorter!
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2009, 02:42:03 am »
I'd say if you don't see EWs or NWs and have issues elsewhere, then leave it be. She may just be sorting out how much sleep she needs or she may just be amidst a rapid developmental stage (linguistically) and her mind might be going a mile a minute and causing her to sleep restlessly. Who knows.

Those 3 hour naps do sound nice though. We had them for 2 days once...11am-2pm but never since. :(







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Re: Switched to 1 nap, now it's getting shorter!
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2009, 02:51:24 am »
Those 3 hour naps do sound nice though. We had them for 2 days once...11am-2pm but never since. :(

oh, they were lovely! Masyn loved all the individual attention she was getting. The best was one day back in January when they both took a 2 hour nap at the same time...I think of that day fondly!

Hopefully if it is just developmental once she is over this stage she'll nap longer...until the next one  ::)

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Re: Switched to 1 nap, now it's getting shorter!
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2009, 20:42:06 pm »
2 hour nap at the same time. That is some kind of magical mommy trick :)







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Re: Switched to 1 nap, now it's getting shorter!
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2009, 13:39:18 pm »
I sure wish I knew how to repeat it! Today she woke up coughing and congested, so now I'm wondering if that is playing a part in the lack of sleep too. (and of course we have FIL 60th birthday bash tonight, so no hope of an early bedtime!)

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Re: Switched to 1 nap, now it's getting shorter!
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2009, 20:41:39 pm »
It's always something isn't it.

grrr.