My daughter just turned 2. We were having naptime sleep issues a few months back, but solved them with a schedule that looked like this:
6:30-6:45am wake time
12:40 down for nap, asleep by 1:00
2:30 wake from nap
7:00pm down for bed, asleep by 7:20pm
All of this has been done in a crib, and she wears a sleep sack (backwards) so she can't climb out. Can you tell I'm avoiding the toddler bed transition?!
The last few weeks she has been refusing nap on most days. We don't do anything differently on the rare occassion that she does go to sleep for nap. However, Tuesday we brought home her new baby brother from the hospital. I knwo her nap refusal could have to do with this, although she seems to be dealing very well with the new baby. Also, she started refusing naps on most days, weeks ago.
We also potty trained about 2 months ago. However, at nap now she poops after about 20 minutes of being in her crib, so I go in and change her. Then lay her back down. Some days she poops in her potty before nap, but that is rare. She seems a little stressed about it, so I haven't pushed the issue.
While in her bed, before and after I change the pull up, she flips, jumps up and down, rolls around, sings songs, and sometimes screams. The scream is a behavioral thing, because she knows she gets time out for screaming in the house. I know she is tired, because she can barely hold her eyes open. I have tried patting her- she rolls around, talks to me, says she wants to go play, yells out "mama Meghan, where are you?" (that one is pretty funny ...) etc. If I try to rock her she does the same thing.
I am at my witts end, mainly because I know she still needs a nap and after a few days of no nap and an early bedtime she becomes SO over tired.
Can someone please help me dissect all of this and figure out what is going on? Does it sound like she needs to go to a toddler bed (her bed changes to one) or should I keep her in the crib? I know baby brother may have something to do with this, but again, she started this weeks ago.
Thank you so much-
Lost mama Meghan