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15 mo old - going to bed too late
« on: July 06, 2010, 14:47:56 pm »
I have been meaning to post this for about 2 months but have been too tired and too busy to.  Laura is almost 15 months old and we are having difficulty getting her to sleep at night at a reasonable time.  Her bedtime seems to be 9:45pm and she wakes between 5:50 and 6:30am – usually no NWs, thank God.  I am not objecting about the wakeup time although I would prefer a wakeup anytime after 6am.  However I want to get my quiet time with hubby back at night.  It doesn’t help that her older brother is going through his own horrible sleep phase but that story is for another post.  Here’s her current schedule, give or take 15min:

Up 6am
Nap #1 10am – 12pm
Nap #2 3:30/4pm – 5pm they wake her at 5 upon my request or she’s still be sleeping!
Bedtime 9:45pm – nothing I can do to get her to sleep prior to this – tried all kinds of AP

She is in daycare Mon thru Fri and is very active there.  On weekends her naps for me are always short (45 minutes most of the times and sometimes a max of 1 hour 10 minutes) – perhaps because she is not as active as she would be at daycare??  Laura is teething – 2 molars coming in plus 2 canines.  We are managing this right now – some days better than others.  I imagine the night problem would be solved with less daytime sleep but I am not sure how to accomplish that.  Daycare is willing to take my instructions on her sleep routine however I cannot change the instructions on them every other day.  If I provide them with a schedule, they will do their best to adhere to it.

Thank you sooooo much in advance!
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Re: 15 mo old - going to bed too late
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2010, 16:34:48 pm »
I think she's probably just getting way too much daytime sleep for her age. I would ask daycare to keep her 10am nap to just 30 mins (to start with - eventually she will go to just one nap), and then have her pm nap at 1.30 for no more than 2 hours.





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Re: 15 mo old - going to bed too late
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2010, 20:48:13 pm »
Hi Anna, thanks for your quick reply.  I've been thinking should I ask daycare to push her AM nap out to 10:15am for a week, then to 10:30am for the following week etc.  I was hoping that she would then slowly make the move to one nap herself over the course of the coming months.  Do you think that is too much to do?
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Re: 15 mo old - going to bed too late
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2010, 20:57:39 pm »
You could do it that way. You could push the morning nap later and then the afternoon nap shorter. Either way, you need to end up with less daytime sleep and have her wake up from her last nap at about 3pm (if her pm nap is the long nap) or 4ish if she has a pm catnap and a long am nap.