My son is 9 1/2 months old and has always been a tricky napper, but a wonderful nighttime sleeper. He goes in spurts of taking good naps and then back to one pretty decent nap and one "catnap." However, he only seems to do this at daycare. He will usually sleep for 1 1/2 hours in the morning and then often wakes after only 30 minutes of his afternoon nap (and typically wakes screaming). The daycare provider thinks that is because he goes to bed so early. She thinks lessening his nighttime sleep will help to even out his daytime sleep, which in theory, makes sense. She said she doesn't know any child his age that goes to bed as early as he does (7:00p.m.). On the weekends, when he's home, he takes two 1 1/2 hour naps and sleeps from 7:00 p.m. until 6:00 or 6:30 a.m. So why is he so inconsistent at daycare and do you think his bedtime really is causing an issue? I would hate to push his bedtime back though and it not help at all and then he's just lost another 30 minutes to an hour of sleep. Here's his typical daily schedule. Let me know what you think.
6:00 wake & feed (5 oz. formula)
6:30 breakfast - cereal, fruit, cheerios
9:00 nap (1 1/2 hours)
11:00 5 oz. bottle of formula
11:30 lunch - veggie, meat, fruit
2:00 nap (30 minutes - 1 1/2 hours)
3:30 5 oz. bottle of formula
5:30 dinner - cereal, meat, veggie
6:30 5 oz. bottle of formula
7:00 bedtime
We are also in the process of switching to table foods. Thanks for helping.
