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Offline JacobM

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when the 1st nap gets later and later...
« on: December 08, 2009, 10:44:36 am »
hi - my 10 month old baby is managing to stay up much longer - but it seems to be completely changing his nap times...so, this morning, he woke up at 7.15 (very late for him, but we had a very disturbed night with him crawling round his cot - but that's another story), so he went down for his nap at 10 - which seems really late - considering his second nap will start eating into the afternoon - from 2/2.30 until 3.30/4? will his first nap just get later and later? how do I handle this? what's the general routine for his age?

We are also having issues with early wakings, so have been doing what the BW suggests - stretching out his morning nap and also shortening it - but what about when he does eventually wake up later (he was waking between 5 and 5.30) say, at 6.30/7 - do i still need to do stretch out the first nap? there's no way he would go to sleep earlier - when he's not tired, he just won't go in the cot. So, again, I'll end up with a really late 2nd nap?

Would LOVE some advice
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Re: when the 1st nap gets later and later...
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2009, 10:50:16 am »
Around this age, they still need 2 naps but the day isn't quite long enough. So you, need to cut short one of the naps, so either a long am nap plus a pm catnap, or (if he's unlikely to have the catnap), cut the morning nap short, then a slightly shorter A time and then a long pm nap.





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