yeah, my daughter will freak out if she has too much A time. no matter how much wind-down time we will do, she'll cry and cry when i go to put her down for her nap. wind-down time with her is very short because sometimes she cannot just relax and the low-key activities just make her frustrated. just now i put her down for her third nap (because her second nap was only 45 min) and after only 1.5 hours awake, she was hysterical and i needed to rock her to calm her down. i hope that she sleeps more than an hour.
i am very frustrated because she does so well with the 3 naps per day. when all goes that way, she sleeps through the night and all is peaceful. she goes down easy for all her naps and bedtime. it's heaven! yesterday, we tried for the cat nap for 45 minutes before i got upset and gave up, so it was close to 5PM and she had been up since 2:15! i raced through her pre-bedtime routine and got her into bed 45 minutes later with some difficulty. she had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. i'm in a pickle.
i'm beginning to think that i should just keep increasing her second A time until she gets used to it and sleeps through that nap and then drop her cat nap. anyone else have any ideas? this is the schedule that i'm working towards:
6:30AM - wake
9AM - sleep
10:30AM - wake
1:30PM - sleep
3:30PM - wake
6PM/6:30PM - sleep
it would be great if she could sleep till 7AM. she has in the past couple of weeks a few times but not consistently. if she could sleep till 7AM then maybe her father could see her in the evenings when he gets home from work
otherwise, he'll see her when she turns 2 or 3