Hi everyone! My ds is 16 month old and I’ve battled his EW for over 1 year. From 7/20/08, he began to sleep only 9.5 to 9.75hrs at night 4 times a week. He still takes 2 naps a day, sometimes 3 naps although very rare (2 days only) I really hope & appreciate anyone can give me some “routine” suggestions. In fact, he doesn’t have any routine because his wake-up time is different every day now. However, if I follow his sleeping signs, his A time between wake-up and morning nap is 3hr40-50min, and 3hr37min-4hr between morning nap & afternoon nap.
His day looks like below:
5:50/6:00/6:05/6:10 wake up
9:35/9:40/9:50/10:05 morning nap for at least 1hr30min.
(I usually let him sleep 1hr30min-1hr40min till 11:20/11:25/11:30/11:35. If I don’t cut it, he will sleep at least 1hr40min. But I don’t want him sleep over 1hr40min because I’m afraid that it will cause his afternoon nap to be too late or too short.)
3:00-3:27 afternoon nap for 40min-1hr till 4:00/4:05
8:06-8:25 bedtime depending on his afternoon nap length and his tiredness
So his daytime sleep total is 2hr10min to 2hr35min if he sleeps less than 10hrs at night.
There were two days that he slept less than 10hrs at night and woke up around 6:00, he fell back to sleep 1hr later at 7:05/7:15. The first time I let him sleep only 30min, then let him take 2nd nap for 1hr30min, 3rd nap for 35min. The result was he slept from 8:36 to 7:30. (I cut it) The second time I let him sleep till he woke himself up till 8:00, then let him take 2nd nap for 1hr, 3rd nap for 35min. The result was that he slept from 8:30 to 7:00. But most of the time, he doesn’t fall back to sleep around 7:00. I’m still confused if I should let him sleep at 7:00.
Before 7/20, his night sleep was 10hr-10hr45min, sometimes even 11hr30min. (3days) At 7/19, he woke up at 7:20 (8:46bedtime), took his morning nap 1hr28min (10:47-12:15) and afternoon nap 35min (4:10-4:45) He went to bed at 8:30 and woke up at 5:50! From that week, his night time sleep began to deteriorate. But I need to admit his night time sleep was not stable before 7/20. Although sometime he can wake up after 7:00, these good days did not last for 3 days in a row. Most of the time he’ll have 1 good day and 2/3 bad days then he will have 1 good day again. I call it a good day if his night sleep is 10hr30min or more. I also noticed that he slept less than 10hrs only one day per week from 7/1 to 7/20. However, after 7/20, he slept less than 10hrs 4 times a week. Because his night sleep is too little, I try to let him have 2hr10-2hr30min day time sleep hoping he can overcome some overtiredness. But I wonder if I should limit his morning nap OR turn cold turkey to let him have only 1 nap? Can anyone tell me what to do if your baby sleeps less than 10hrs at night?
