my dd is 17m and wakes up in a really bad mood from her daytime sleep - she always cries and sometimes continues to cry on my knee for a while - she can cry on and off for up to an hour, I usually have to get her out of the house to snap her out it...she goes down at about 1pm and wakes up anytime after about 1hr 10 mins but she can sleep for over 2 hours...I try to wake her at 3pm if she's not woken herself because she's a nightmare to go down to bed if she's asleep too late in the afternoon. She also wakes up between 5-5.30am most days but will sometimes go back to sleep till 7am with a bottle (I realise this is a bad habit but nothing we tried worked to get her to sleep later so we used to just get up at that time, at least now she sometimes goes back to sleep)..her routine is (ish):
5.30am(ish) bottle milk
8am breakfast
10am snack
12pm dinner
1pm bottle and bed, sometimes till 3pm but usually sleeps about 1.5hrs
3.30pm snack (sometimes doesn't bother with this)
5pm tea
6.45pm bath
7.15pm supper
7.30pm bottle and bed
she sometimes cries out at about 10.30pm - we leave her but if she doesn't self settle, we go in and stroke her head or if she's hysterical, we cuddle her back to sleep but not very often
any ideas on the daytime nap? am beginning to wonder whether to just not put her to bed as she doesn't seem that tired and isn't grumpy before she goes down but she is beastly after she gets up - sometimes she's horrid until she goes to bed for the night..but I think she may be a bit early to drop the nap...does she need less of a sleep? my sister thinks she may go into too much of a deep sleep and this is causing her grumpiness...I can't cope with her at all after her sleep, I literally can't do anything for up to an hour after it..we just sit sometimes and watch tv, it's the only thing that doesn't make her cry...any thoughts appreciated...thanks
