Ack - 2 1/4 YO Not Napping - Stopped Sucking Thumb - UPDATE

[andibig]

I think she still needs/wants her nap.just some days she isn't going to sleep.
I thought Sasha was going to drop her nap a few weeks ago as she was playing in her room for over an hour for about a week but shes gone back to napping again (thank you god!!!)

[Mom to M&M]

LOL thanks guys. Tried to wake her at 2:50 but she was SO hard to wake and kept dozing until almost 3:15! Maybe I'll try nap after 5.5 hours awake tomorrow...

[Layla]

Karen, we have been doing 6hrs for a while. Actually now its more like 6.5-7hrs but Isabella's nap is only 1hr or she has less hrs at night & she's not good on anything less than 10.5hrs at night. So her day is:

6am - wakes
12.30-1pm - nap starts
1.30-2pm - nap ends
7pm - bedtime (ásleep by about 7.30-7:40pm)

[Mom to M&M]

Interesting... DD always used to need more time before bed than before nap but maybe that's changing...

[Mom to M&M]

Me again... So after trying to wake DD after 1 hour nap but it taking another 25 minutes or so of her dozing before she was really awake, I got her into bed at 8:15. It's almost 9 now and she's not asleep yet. Is this a sign that the nap was too long? Even though she was REALLY hard to wake? So hard to figure out...

[Katet]

I gave up trying to work things out about it here a few months ago... I have a 4yo who still naps about 2x week & a 2.5yo who needs at least 7 sometimes 8 hours before he will nap... Yesterday he went 10 hours & fell asleep eating (trying to get him to eat at 4.30pm before putting to bed at 5pm) & then slept 45mins on the sofa before going to bed at normal time... he was tired this am though. I have got to the stage now that I don't offer either boy naps they fall asleep when they need to where they are as it was driving me mad to try & get one to nap while the other had quiet time etc & I ended up with no time... so mostly I try to be coming home in the car around 1.30 pm as that often means I get the 2.5yo to sleep then, sometimes the 4yo will nap too

[Mom to M&M]

Thanks Kate. So if your 2.5 yo naps late how long do you let him sleep for?

After her late nap yesterday (but still less than 1.5 hours total) and not falling asleep until at least 9, DD was up at 6:35. She might have dozed off for 15-20 more minutes, not sure as I was dozing myself. A lot of it seems mainly related to the not sucking thumb - she used to just be able to relax/unwind so much faster that way for easier sleep... Will see what today brings...

[Colesmom]

Hi Karen!  Ah, we always seem to be here with our sleep troubles huh?  Not that I can offer much, but just to tell you what Cole has been up to.

He has never willingly napped!  I have put my son to sleep every sleep period for 2.5 years.  I can't remember when it started, but a few months ago he wouldn't even go near his crib for nap.  It got to the point where we organize our day in such that we are driving home from errands when he'll fall asleep.  for the first time this weekend I tried reading LOTS of books with him on the couch and he was getting drowsy.  then DH put on a movie and he was asleep in about 10 minutes.  He had woken at 7:30am and fell asleep at 2:30pm.

His "typical" schedule during the week, as he sleeps at daycare ( ) is:

6:45-7:00 I wake him up (bizarre to think i have to wake him up now as he used to be 5:30 waker)
12:30/1:00-2:30 nap (school wakes him)
10:00 bed.

Cole needs to be awake 13 hours to fall asleep.  I have tested and tested and tested this theory.  If I *think* he should need more sleep (less sleep night before etc) he fights and fights and fights. I know I should likely cut his nap...but he doesn't always add it to night sleep.  He used to, but not anymore.  I am lucky right now to get 9 hour nights from 10-7.  We have the dreaded molars coming in as well.

Did that help?  Likely not.  Except maybe to make you feel better you're not in my shoes

[Mom to M&M]

Hi Traci and Michelle - as always, good to "see" you guys!

See it's just weird to me since she was always such a big thumb sucker (and it's basically nonexistent now overnight) and a great napper too. But like many of you said, I guess I'll just have to roll with it and take it day by day and maybe extend morning A times too. Let's keep checking in with each other...

[Mom to M&M]

Well after she woke sometime between 6:35-6:55 this morning I put her in her crib at about 12:15. She was thankfully asleep by 12:40 and I woke her around 2:20 or 2:25. So that's a big improvement!

[Katet]

Karen, if he naps say at 3 or 4pm (increasingly regular) I wake at 30-45mins the point he stirs which since a nap that late takes place in the living room I can witness it KWIM.

Interestingly our last (ever) molar came through 2 weeks ago & Mr 2.5yo who has been an erratic sleeper (any excuse to have NW) has slept through the night every night since, even when in strange beds when we have been away. He has also started adding time to night sleep when he short napped, so I am a firm believer molars do crazy things. Glad it is over
here  

BTW when A gave up his Paci (at just before 4yo) he actually had a rough few weeks when he struggled with naps (when he wanted them as he was tired) & getting back if he woke early. It has now sorted itself out, but I think it was almost a month it took... he still  needs me or dh to sing to him if he is OT

[binxyboo]

Waving hi!!!

I apologize, I posted on this thread earlier, I am going to move it as it's in the wrong place completely!!

I was just reading along here, as Riley is a thumb sucker as well.

[Mom to M&M]

Thanks again everyone and hi to you too Michelle!

After her about 1.75 hour nap yesterday (awake at 2:25) I got her to bed a little after 8 but she didn't fall asleep until almost 9. Up right about 7 today. Her sleep just seems all wacky and I do hope it's the molars Kate and hope she gets them already!

[aisling]

Just thought I would encourage you all and say YES the molars stink.  We got the last top 2 2nd years at 23 months and I have had a new and improved son since then. 

A x

[Colesmom]

thanks for affirming that molars suck!  Sleep is just non existant in our house at the moment.  Could the timing be ANY worse.  Egad, they'll still be coming in when Connor arrives!