does something need tweaking when they turn 2?

[meltown]

for the past 2 days B has been having a horrible time going to sleep for his nap.  he woke 2 days in a row at night, then that stopped and 2 days later he started to not go to sleep when we put him down for his nap.  he finally fell asleep at 3:20 yesterday and we had to wake himabotu an hour later to save bed time.  today has been the same ting, it is 2:40 and he is awake standing by his gate.  he has been in his room for a hour now.  is this a sign that something needs to be changed?  last night he slept from 8:00ish -7:30.  advice?

[Peek-a-boo]

This is about the time that DS's sleep requirement started dropping from 13 hours to 12.5 or 12 hours.  First he fought bedtime for a while, then he started skipping naps.  Our solution was to shorten his night, so we wake him every morning to ensure that he'll nap. 

[amywiz24]

my DS has been skipping naps too....and then has been a bear to deal with the rest of the day; I am wondering if his routine needs tweaking too.
It seem sthat throughout my entire preganncy, he gradually needs less and less sleep (as I need more and more). WE are down to 11 hours at night; but he will still skip naps---so maybe we need to go down to 10 hours??

[Peek-a-boo]

10.5 hours was magic for us

[meltown]

can you adjust the nap time too?  or only bed time.  DH would rather cut the nap, but I don't want to cut it if he needs that more.  It would be easier for me as I am home at night by myself, but I wanted to ask first.

[Peek-a-boo]

Yes, I think you can if it works for him. My DS is always super crabby if I wake him from a nap, but okay to be woken from a nap.  I'd just try to match your target sleep total to what seems to be his new sleep requirement. 

[meltown]

I love that picture in your avitar bethany!  it is totally the same way Reagan is with B!