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Offline allyson

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naps ending or just speech explosion effecting them??
« on: February 22, 2008, 17:52:30 pm »
my dd is going to be 3 in May. she has had many ear infextions (16) and tubes placed. these past few weeks she has had a major leap in her speech. since then she has had a hard time falling asleep. for naps and bedtime. Esp  naps. She only falls asleep if I go back in to her room and hold her for a few minutes and chill her out. then she sleeps for 2 hours so she does need it. Other days she won't nap and is talking up a storm in ther crib.

days she  does not nap she goes to bed a bit earlier about 7pm ish. and days she does she is awake later until about 8-8:30pm. we bring her up at 7:30 if she does not nap and she just hangs in her crib until she falls asleep. but last night she did not fall asleep until 8pm and she did not even have a nap yesterday.

What is going on? could it be her speech or is she done with naps now???? can her speech effect her sleeping? Honestly some days I cannot go back in there because I need a break, I have an 11 month old too to take care of.

any help would be great ::)

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Re: naps ending or just speech explosion effecting them??
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2008, 19:13:35 pm »
This is definitely the age for kids to start skipping naps (we sure know about that at our house  ::) ), but I would guess that her recent leap in language has her so excited that it's hard to calm down for sleep. I would definitely keep offering the nap so she at least gets quiet time (well, sort of!) even if she doesn't sleep. We've had months of infrequent naps here and now DD has decided she's napping again. I would say that if she sounds happy and is just talking, leave her be, especially if you're attending to a younger child. I know that when DD got really wound up and was talking up a storm I used to go in and try to settle her down... sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I would just compensate for the skipped nap with an earlier bedtime like you're doing. We do bedtime 12 hours from wakeup here, but my dd is a bit younger too. HTH  :)
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Re: naps ending or just speech explosion effecting them??
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2008, 19:19:00 pm »
thanks for the advice. I had a feeling that she would start skipping naps. I think it is a combo like you said. Today she took a nap, she is on every other day now. I will definetly keep offering it.. thanks for your help...