Your Toddler's Schedule?

[newmama12]

What does your toddler's schedule look like? We've been having some EWs (not too bad, though) and I'm not sure if it's b/c he's OT or what? DS just turned 20 months and this is his typical schedule...

6:15am wake
12:30-2 nap
7:00 BT

Is 5 hours of afternoon 'A' time too much after only a 1.5 hour nap. He rarely will do longer than that. He's very tired at 12:30 and happy to go down for nap. Falls asleep within minutes. So, I know he's ready. Should I leave naptime at 12:30? Should I push it to 1:00? Should we have less afternoon A time?

Or....does this all look just fine and I have to deal with the 6:15 wu?!   BTW...he use to get up at 7 before this darn time change.

[Lolly]

I would make bedtime a bit earlier until he catches up and the EWs get back to normal time. If he is awake at 6.15am I would aim for being asleep by 6.30 at the latest, closer to 6 if I could. When his wake up gets back to normal you can push his bedtime back slowly to 7 if that's the time you want. Will he nap a bit earlier - so 12 istead of 12.30?

Laura

[MadisonC]

DS is just over 19 months and this is what is shedule looks like:

Wake-7
Nap- 12-2
BT- 715

This has been working really well for us.  I usually have to wake him at 2 because I would like to keep his BT 715.  It seems like the last few weeks his sleep needs are rather high.. but hope this helps!

[newmama12]

Well....an early BT did NOT work out well last night. Yesterday he only did a one hour 15 minute nap (I think OT from a busy morning). So I put him in bed at about 6:35pm. He was up at 5:15 this morning.   Earliest time since the 2-1 nap change. Grrrrr!! Maybe he just doesn't need 14 hours/day. Maybe he's more like 13ish. And maybe he really isn't OT? The only hard part, today, is that he can't nap till 12:30 when we get back from dropping dd off at preschool. It's going to be a loooonnnnng morning.  

I will probably just aim for a BT of about 6:50 or so. Hopefully, that'll, at least, get him back to the 6:15am WU. I can handle that. Just not 5:15!!

[<Catherine>]

Yesterday he only did a one hour 15 minute nap (I think OT from a busy morning). So I put him in bed at about 6:35pm.

I wonder if BT wasn't early enough? If he was OT already, then even more OT from a short nap, he may have needed BT even earlier. I think the earlier WU this morning was possibly just down the OT accumilating.

[Lolly]

I agree with Catherine, I wouls have had him in bed by 6 after starting the BT routine by about 5.30. Also you can't tell if early bedtime is working based on one night as they need time to settle into the routine and catch up on the OT to know if it's working. In my experience you need a good week of early bedtimes for it to be having the desired effect.

Hope you have a better nap today!

Laura

[newmama12]

You ladies make a great point! He could, most definitely, still be OT. We tried to run an errand this morning and he fell asleep in the car. I let him nap for 20. Hopefully, that won't throw off his normal 12:30 naptime. We'll see how that goes. I'm going to plan on another early BT. I want to give it a few nights to see if it's OT and we can catch him up.