So it is time for an update and we have made a fair bit of progress.
On the mornings when DH isn’t working, J will happily get up and once he sees all the lights in the hall off, he will happily stay in his bed reading and chatting until we get him up. On the days that DH works, he is getting up and standing at the gate, but will happily stay in his room until I am ready to get up once DH has had one of his “man chats” with him about how it is too early to get up. SO I am pretty happy with that. We still have the baby gate across his door so he can’t get into any trouble, but that is ok.
This is of course all happening at 6 in the morning, which is not so cool, but I am not getting up to him until at least 6.45 so he is spending a good 30-45min in his room before he starts to complain. Which for his attention span is pretty good.
The problem that we still have is at nap time. I was putting him down at 12.30 and he was screaming blue murder and playing up big time, only to eventually fall asleep on the floor. I thought initially it was just for me ( a lovely present for mummy) but I got DH to put him to be over the weekend, and while he didn’t play up as much, he still did fluff around.
I had tried an earlier nap last week and that just made it worse, so yesterday and today have pushed his nap out to 1pm and although we have still had a few antics, it has been 10min tops and he has gone to sleep in his bed.
Yesterday he woke happy after 1hr15 and today I will wake him after an hour.
He is still happily then going to bed about 7.15-7.30ish.
So our day is looking like
6am wake
7am get up
1-2pm nap
7-7.30 bed.
In total he is getting 12hrs a day but I just can’t help but try and strive for that all elusive 7am wake up. I know he can do it cause he was doing it when I first started cutting the nap, but haven’t had it for a few weeks now.
Is it normal for the AM A time to be 7hrs?? That seems really long. What is the next step to dropping the nap?? Not sure how to tackle all of this as I don’t feel like I have a plan of what might happen??
