Change something? Or leave as is...

[jessmum46]

J is 15 months, on one nap since 12/13 months.

Routine has been fairly consistent:

WU 6.30/7 (wakes herself)
Nap 11.45 - about an hour at nursery (M/W/Th) and usually 2-3h at home - I assume catch ups! (cap at 3h)
BT 18.15/30
Usually STTN

Last 2-3 weeks most days WU has been nearer 6/6.15, rest of routine remains unchanged.  Goes down for naps and BT easily, always very ready for BT on nursery days, and often needs a slightly earlier nap on Friday after two days at nursery.

Overall it's pretty good - I shouldn't complain too much!  But that extra half an hour in the morning would be nice so I can get ready without her clinging to my ankles   she will play in her cot for 10-15 mins or so, but once she's thrown her lovey out she gets upset and then that's it for entertaining herself.

Teeth wise she has had two canines cut in last month, and other two are bulging but not particularly troubling her at present (usually obvious when they are).  Has all her one year molars.

So........do we think later nap?  Later BT?  Or just stick with it for now? 

[HenaV]

Hi!

Is her WU the same on a morning after a nursery day when she has a shorter nap? If so, then I would try a later nap in the 1st instance and if you have no joy you might want to consider capping the nap on non-nursery days so its closer to 2.5 h max keeping BT same for now? I guess is tempting to push BT out given your DD had such good nights but do you think you may run the risk of OT especially on nursery days?

H

[jessmum46]

Thanks Hena . Yes WU tends to be roughly the same each day, occasionally we'll get a one-off later WU but 6.15 seems to be becoming the new normal.  Will maybe try shifting nap just 15 mins to start with, and see how it goes.  Am more nervous about shifting BT for exactly the reason you said - she seems to prefer the long night and really struggles to get to 6.15pm on nursery days.  Even after a 3h catch up nap she'll happily go down by 6.30!

Thanks xx

[michaeljacknnugg]

I think I'd also move the nap later. It's kind of a step towards eventually dropping it, getting her used to coping with a longer morning A time. By the time we dropped the nap my DS didn't go down until around 2.30 and so bedtime wasn't a long stretch off.

Scared you yet with talk of nap dropping? ;-)

[jessmum46]

Yikes don't tell me that!!

[HenaV]

Well you certainly scared me 

[becj86]

Yeah, I vote move it later, Katherine. Worked wonders for Logan

[ZacsMumme]

She's in a wonder week - gross.
http://blogginaboutbabies.wordpress.com/tag/wonder-weeks/
http://www.thewonderweeks.com/

We also had to push the nap a touch during these periods. Sleep was still a bit wonky, but I found after a month or so things actually went back to normal During this one Z needed a touch less sleep in 24 as well.

I am a firm believer in teething causing EW too....they are in light sleep and unmedicated, nothing to distract. All the things have to do is a tiny nudge and it's enough to wake em

[jessmum46]

Oh not those WWs again!!  But yes, she is coming out with several new words at the moment and some new signs too.  Plus the canines that *weren't* bothering her now are . Yawn.