11 months old Help with routine please!!!

[Bex09]

Totally agree with Sara. We also always found the second nap harder to come by here too. You have done brilliantly with sleep training, that is great.

lol at your Mum! People always used to tell me this about C too but no she would just run around playing all day long if I let her.

Good luck with your plan today, hope all goes well.

[Vetochka]

He did not fall asleep until 8:45pm last night!!! He was just cuddling with his doggie and talking to himself for the longest time ever! Woke up at 6:30am... Clearly that was not enough for him of night time sleep so he started to rub his eyes at 8:30am!!! Oh my! I put him to bed at 9am, he fell asleep at 9:10 I really hope for a long nap now, otherwise he'll be tired and not happy...
Don't understand what happen last night! His second nap was 30min + 40 more min... So he got up at 4:40pm... Maybe I shouldn't have extend that second nap and put him to bed earlier???

[Vetochka]

Woke up after 45min... Hmmm... Undertired??? But he looked soooo sleepy! Was rubbing his eyes and yawning... What am I doing wrong here?
Anyway he woke up crying and not happy, so I extended his nap (by rocking him in my arms ) Will see how much longer he is going to sleep and will go from there

[ZacsMumme]

Hun can you repost todays or the last 24 hours EASY?

[Vetochka]

Yesterday:
W 6:15
S 10:00 (1h20min)
W 11:20
S 3:25 (WU after 30min crying, had to help him, slept 40min more)
W 4:40
To bed around 8:20
Fell asleep at 8:45pm last night...
Today:
W 6:30
S 9:10 (WA after 45min crying, rubbing his eyes, not happy, I had to help him to extend it..slept another 30min)
W 10:40
S 2:45 (WA after 30min crying, I went in, extended for only 20 more min)
W 3:50

[Vetochka]

What time should I put him to bed??? I am getting confused here! How much of A time he can handle? 4h? So around 8pm? Or earlier because his naps were so broken today?

[ZacsMumme]

Okay hun, so yesterdays EASY looks like his first A was okay, possibly could be a touch longer.
But his second A looks too long, that 30min nap looks OT to me.
He looks like he was OT for BT.

TOday he looks like he was UT for that first nap then OT.

Basically if you get a short nap, anything under 1hour then you ned to bring that next A forward so he doesnt get OT. He can only do a full A time on a good restorative nap. For some LOs a restorative naps is 1hr10, others need 1.5hours. You need to watch your LO to see what he needs.

I would go for an early BT of around 7-7.30 as I think he is OT. A long A to bed will jsut cause more resistance.

SO FOr tomorrow I think you need to try your best to get that good first A time at around 3hrs45...it this gives you a good 1hr+ nap and you think he is restored then maybe watch him after 3hrs30mins. SOme LOs like shorter As as the day goes on, others like longer so you will need to work that out. As soon as you think he looks tired then pop him down fir his nap. If you are not sure you can try for the same A again and see how he sleeps.
If you get a short nap then shorten the next A to BT....

does that make sense? This age is tough, once you get that first nap consistently above 1hr I think the rest of your day may start to be easier to work out

[Vetochka]

I do agree his first nap today looks like UT but he did not get a long night sleep and started to yawn and rubb his eyes after 2h of A time!!! I was very surprised but decided to go with his cues and put him down earlier for his first nap...maybe I was wrong
Thank you for your advice! Will try again tomorrow, just hope he'll sleep longer at night and won't get tired as fast as today in the morning (which is sooo unusual foe him!)
Thanks a lot

[ZacsMumme]

Mummy always knows best Sometimes you have to just take a day for them to catch up.