My aunt comes to my house to watch him and has been trying to implement what I was doing. He will occasionally go to a sitter's house. This upcoming Tuesday is his first day there, so who knows how it is going to go. She has a son the same age who is still on 2 naps a day so we were hoping they would go down at the same time.
I am going to try and cap todays am nap at 40 min and hope he takes an afternoon nap. Days when he skipped his pm nap I tried for an EBT, but he fought that too and ended up screaming and not going down until the normal time anyways. He has been waking at 645 am which is about 15-45 min earlier than usual for him. Now with that being said, that will probably be the time he needs to get up when he goes to daycare a couple times a month. On days when my aunt comes here, I go in and nurse (DF) either at 530am or 6am so sometimes he sleeps in until 745.
When he fights his naps or BT, I used to let him cry for a little bit, but since I have been back at work we have been going in to give him a little more comfort, and now I think maybe he is getting used to it. Maybe the "tough love" is what I have to get back to
I am torn b/w capping his nap in hopes to get 2 naps a day..... or stretching out his am awake time in order to have one long nap at least.
His days used to be:
-3 hours Awake time
-Nap of 1 to 1.5 hr
-4 hours of Awake time
-Nap of 1 to 1.5 hours
-2.5-3 hrs till BT
At 14 months what is the typical Awake time between naps? He seems so tired in the morning and goes down so easily at 3 hours. Today I capped the am nap tp 40 min. He fought the pm nap and finally I nursed and then got him down and he slept for 40 min after 3 hr40 min. He was so grumpy and tired when I woke him in the am.
He is currently screaming bloody murder as I try and get him down for EBT.
