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Time to cap the nap?
« on: October 03, 2013, 20:48:01 pm »
The past week or so Audrey has been going BALLISTIC at bedtime. Shouting and screaming for someone to stay with her and hold her hand. She's definitely an independent sleeper.  ::) Once she calms down she talks and chats for a while but is still asleep I guess within 20 mins, which is a bit longer than usual but still not that long to fall asleep, yk? And sleeping through with no troubles.

She usually has about a 2hr nap - sometimes more. Today and yesterday she had 2hrs, and the nights went exactly as described. But Tuesday she only had an hour, and still the same thing.

Still I can't help thinking this sounds like UT? Time to cap the nap at 1.5hrs? Or move it later?

Usual day is
6.45-7am awake
12.30-1 nap ~2hrs +/-30mins
7pm asleep
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Re: Time to cap the nap?
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2013, 20:53:02 pm »
Could it be a developmental thing?if the shorter nap
didnt affect BT?just a thought!
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Re: Time to cap the nap?
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2013, 20:54:23 pm »
Could be. It is definitely very tiring, bedtime is now a kicking, grumpy, stroppy battle from the minute I take her upstairs. May get a little reprieve on a bath night but basically she's furious about having to sleep and wants to make sure I know it! Wow this is an exhausting age. Must be even more exhausting for her I guess.
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Re: Time to cap the nap?
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2013, 00:54:49 am »
I hate hate hate waking DD up so I would try moving the nap later before capping it. A longer morning might make her tired enough at BT even if it's a shorter A after the nap.  If you try that and still get crazy BT maybe push that out by half an hour too, if she goes to bed at 7:30 and is up at 7 (or even 6:30) that's still a good length night.  C is a couple of months older than A and she's doing 1:30 nap and BT has been pushed to 8:00 because I still don't want to go down to 1.5hr nap!  I think I will have to soon though
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Re: Time to cap the nap?
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2013, 06:08:45 am »
Thing is she has to wake up at 3 so we can do the school run. So if its later it will be capped too.
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Re: Time to cap the nap?
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2013, 06:54:28 am »
Is it possible to move BT later 15 mins or so instead?  Don't know what your routine is like with 2 you might need them both to go down together.  Here we needed the longer nap and a later BT for a good while because he didn't manage with a capped nap. Capping just didn't work for us long term.
When I did have to cap it though it took a while for BT to resolve and the sleep pattern to regulate, it may take more than 1 day on a capped nap to see better BT mood.
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