A time for 15 months old?

[Hserry]

Dear moms, need help my 15 mo DD is now making the transition to one nap. Her sleep coincidentally changed w it. We now have 11-12 hour nights, w some night wakings.

She has had some night terrors on the couple of days of the transition but for the lat two days we ave had none. I guess the 2-1 is settling in. Her bedtime is still late tho.

Here is how her routine looks like:
10-10.30 up
11 - 11.30 breakfast
1-1.30 nap (around 2 hours)
3.30-4 up
4.30 lunch
8 dinner
8.30 pj's and bed
10 bed time

How does her A time look like? How do I make her sleep earlier? We had a week's vacation and that's when she started pushing her wake time but also extended to a 12 hour night ( sometimes interrupted, sometimes not).

Thanks!
Hania

[Truly Blessed]

Hiya Honey,

On 1 nap you're looking at her A time to nap ideally being 5 hours and then 5.5/6 hours to BT so her nap is very early at the moment and her A time to BT much too long. Sorry I don't know where you live but I'm presuming by her wake up and bed time that you're not in the UK LOL  and you're somewhere in the Med 

Does the late WU/late BT suit your lifestyl/family, or are you looking to move everything earlier 

On her current WU her routine should look something like this:

WU 10 am

Nap 3 to 5 pm

BT 10.30/11.00

My DS needed a 13 hour day to sustain a 2 hour nap so her 2nd A time may need to be as long as 6 hours but I wouldn't say to that right now, before she has settled into her routine.

What length A time do you think you can push her through before her nap 

Vicki.x.

PS: I suspect those NT's were down to OT due to the long afternoon.

[Hserry]

Dear Sammysmammy:)

Tnx alot for your reply. We aren't in the UK indeed:) we love in Cairo, Egypt.

I am a working mom, and get a maternity hour so I need to be in the office by 10 am every morning, I drop Noor (my baby girl) off at my mom's around 9.15 so I need her to be up ideally by 8.30 or 8.45 am every day.

So I need to bring her WU time earlier by around 1.5 hours. Today she woke up 9.45 am but she had a couple of NW's (short episodes tho).

What would you suggest? I tried to keep her up since morning to delay her nap but she was beat by 1.15 pm which makes her A time around 3.5 hours.

What would you suggest?

Tnx,
Hania

[Truly Blessed]

Hi Hania,

I have visited Cairo many times in my other life working on cruise ships 

Okay so if she can only make it to a 3.5 A time right now then I would suggest you do that for 3 days or so until she is used to it. The you push her A time out by 15 mins every 3 days until she is going down after 5 hours. If you can't do early bed time then I think you might have to give her a cat nap of 20 mins later in the day to make it through. So today would be like this:

WU 9.45

Nap 1 1.15 to (I'm guessing) 3.15

Cat nap 6.15 to 6.35

BT 10.00

Is there any way you can do early bed time one night or are you always working  It's  just this would be a really quick way of moving her wake up earlier.

Vicki.x.

[Hserry]

Hey:) I really appreciate your taking the time to help me out:)

Last night she woke up 9.45 am, napped around 1.15 for to hours and stayed up till she slept at 9.30 am.

Still A times aren't even before and after he only nap of the day. I tried to put her down for a quick nap around 6 pm but she resisted so I just took her out of bed.

Last night she woke up around 2.30 am, had a sip of water, then back to sleep in a minute. The moment I left the room she cried her head off so I went back and sat beside her bed. She continued crying for almost 30 mins and then I tried to do PD but it made her cry harder. She wanted to get out of the cot, I held her for a second and she started pointing to the door, the minute I stepped out w her outside the room she started sleeping on my shoulder. Two mms after I returned back to the room, she cried again. In an out for around three times till she accepted going back to the room. Put her down in bed, started crying again, didn't left her up this time, and ten mins later she slept. She kept checking tho whether or not I was still in the room, till finally around 4 am she slept.

What's happening? She s still sleeping now, it is almost 10 am but I ll go wake her I guess in order not to mess up her schedule.

What do u think? About naps and about night Wakings. Are they related? Sould I do two naps still?

Some nights she sleeps an entire 12hours and others she wakes up:(
Hania