30min naps all of the sudden for 8mo...2-1 switch??

[Elke]

So my little angel has been taking two naps for the past few months. Recently her am naps have been 45m (if she slept 12 hours at night) or 1h15m (if she slept less) and 1h30m in the pm. Her A times were from 2.75 to 4 hours as the day progressed.

I stopped frequent breastfeeding at night a couple of weeks ago and it has been wonderful (last night she slept 11.5 hours without waking for a feed  !!!) She settles herself and was swaddled until this last Sunday. The swaddle weaning was extremely simple, it only took her one day to get used to it.

For the past week she has been taking shorter and shorter naps and I am not sure why (swaddle weaning?, OT?, UT?.)  In the am she has been having a 30 min nap, in the afternoon it is 30m and if I am lucky like yesterday, an hour with no intervention. If I do major AP (let her suckle for 20-30 minutes) I can get her back to sleep in the afternoon.

I should add that she is happy during the day, wakes happy from her short naps, does not EW or NW........WHAT IS GOING ON?

Thanks in advance for any advice or thoughts 

[becky1969]

It is highly unlikely that she is ready for the 2-1 nap switch! Average age is 16 months, and VERY few do it before a year.  Let's take a look at your routine instead!

You know the drill --

Awake 7 am
E 7:15

S 10 (30 min)

etc.


Also, describe how she behaves with these 30 min naps in her? And how difficult is she to put to bed at night?

[Elke]

Here's yesterday's routine:

Wake: 07:00
A: 2h30m little I know, but I had to have her nap before we went out....
S: 09:30-10:00 (30min)

She woke up happy and was fine for four hours, showed no tired signs so I put her to sleep anyway.

A: 4h
S: 14:00-15:00 (1 hour)

A: 4h
S: 19:00 easy to put to sleep and slept through the night for the first time

Today's routine:

Wake: 06:30
A: 3 hours
S: 09:30-10:00 (30min)

woke up happy and shows no signs of being tired or OT

A:4 hours
S: 14:00-14:30 (30min)
**I then nursed her to try to get her back to sleep, it took me 20 minutes!  She babbled happily when she woke up.
S: 14:50-15:30 (I wake her up at this time, otherwise she won't go to sleep at bedtime because she''s UT

A: 4 hours
S: 19:30, got to sleep easily




So, in the past DD would wake up crying when she needed to sleep more. Now she wakes up happy. I wonder if that is because she is no longer swaddled and not because she is fully rested??

I think that I need to extend her first A time and then slightly shorten the second, which I will try tomorrow.


Well, She

[becky1969]

That sounds reasonable.

So, what's going on with her developmentally? Where is she with rolling over? Pulling to standing? Crawling? Teething?

[Elke]

She's rolling over and frustrated with not being able to crawl yet. As for teeth, there are no emminent signs as of yet. We'll see how today goes. I hope it isn't due to the swaddle, I don't know how to fix that problem ;-)