Support for dropping the last nap age 2-3 yrs

[sherry lynn]

That is lovely   I hope you keep getting some good nap days. Hopefully you have figured out the Jarrah nap secret for a little while.

[Mama2C]

This has been a traumatic week for us. My dad died on Saturday and with all the funeral plans etc I haven't even thought about going online until today. Luckily my daughter's schedule has evened out and she has been sleeping through the night again and is completely done with naps (still has an hour of quiet/book time). So thankfully she managed to stay on course despite the upheaval in our lives. No doubt my dad was helping out!

[RACHPEM]

Sorry to hear about your dad, and glad sleep is better x

[EloysH]

Oh I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad.  Sending some best thoughts and prayers your way.  I hope he keeps helping out with your daughters sleeps that is truly a lovely picture.

[EloysH]

Just dropping in to report a no nap day today.  Interestingly enough, he had 11 hours sleep last night and slept till nearly 7am today. (he has not slept past 6:30am for a long time). When he woke up in the morning we talked about the day coming and he said "no nap today for Jarrah"   Anyway, at nap time he played for one hour in the cot!   Coincidence or not?

[sherry lynn]

Wow! I can't believe that he said that and then didn't nap. I don't think it's a coincidence.
Were the dramas you had over the scissors in the afternoon?
Glad you finally got an 11 hour night.

[EloysH]

Well I hope this is not getting too much off the topic....  but I say "interestingly enough" again, as the scissor tantrum he had was 8:30am in the morning when he was fresh as a daisy.  We are just getting lots and lots of tantrums at the moment, at first I thought it was related to the no napping business, but it' the same on nap days and many many times a day. It seems its more developemental  - his emotional intelligence is taking off he is communicating about anxieties and worry alot, and also I'd say he's having a growth spurt. It's all about control at the moment, not necessarily me, but his environment.  I take that as a point that he's quite overwhelmed and just growing up quickly!!! 

[sherry lynn]

He is growing up so much!! I am so impressed with his emotional vocabulary. Well done mommy
I bet you are right and it is developmental. I bet you are hoping you don't have a worry wart on your hands

[EloysH]

hmm  DH is a bit miffed as he is very easy going and says "not another one of you!" 

   We had no nap today, he was super tired, tantruming all morning, his mouth was wide open cying so much that I got plenty of good looks for molars and saw some white underneath the gum.  But who knows how long his gums have eben in that state anyway?   My Mum put him down while I went Xmas shopping and reported back that he had a poo after 30 mins of playing in cot and then didn't sleep after that.  So you can imagine tonight.  We were glad to get him down by 7:15pm tonight, he was crying all through his routine and exploding about things not being as he wished.

Phew!  Fingers crossed for a nap tomorrow.

hope you get a nap tomorrow too!  No playing with the blinds! 

How is everyone else doing?   

[sherry lynn]

He plays with the blinds and he throws his blanket in the air, over and over again.
It looks quite funny on the video monitor, but of course the whole I'm moaning and praying he will stop and go to sleep.

He is so spirited in this way. On days with nap issues he just goes in hyper drive, then he will do one of two things,
1. start calling for me
2. all of a sudden lay down and go right to sleep. Like he literally passes out. It's like the switch clicks on in his head and he goes, oh... I am tired. And lays right down. Crazy.

He coped really really well yesterday. He didn't even yawn until 5 and we had very little tantrums, and he did all that without his paci. I was so pleased. The day could have gone, much, much worse.

I hope he has a good wake up for you.

So I guess we are averaging about 1 no nap day a week.

Interestingly enough. I think I've figured out a pattern.

If he naps too long the day before - he's bedtime has been going fine, wake up is ok (about 9.5 hour night) but then the next day is no nap    sort of a weird pattern. Although - as you know - I had a lot to do with the no nap yesterday. But, he was fighting it like the ens before that.

[sherry lynn]

Oh, and I'm sure DH said that with love     I had to laugh. I didn't take you for the worry wart type Or does he just mean emotional?

[OliverRowland]

hello all.  I have run into a problem that i don't know how to solve.  My 3.5 yo ds started dropping his naps a couple of months ago.  We were doing 2-3 days no nap and a nap on the 3rd or 4th day.  He continued to have EW but I assumed i would have to wait that out t'ill he settled down into a routine.  But after a few weeks NWs started.  I remembered from another post that that is likely due to OT.  So, I went back to napping for a couple of days.  But right now he is napping tues, thurs and sundays for an hour.  What amazes me is how predictable he is....on mon, wed and fri he NW and then wakes up at 6am.  On sat (only second day in a row with no nap) he hasn't NW but wakes at 5:30am.  And that days he does nap he doesn't NW and wakes at 6am.  The days he naps he has a 7:30 bedtime and asleep by 8pm.  On no nap nights he's asleep by 7:15pm
Was that a bit confusing....sorry.  Anyways, how do I continue with transitioning to no naps and prevent NW's?!  Will they eventually go away and then I know to start dropping naps days?

[EloysH]

I tihnk you are right, just make more or longer naps until the Ew's go away.  Glad oyu could find such a predictably pattern.  it's a very delicate balance, so OT seems to be unavoidable.   

Sherry: I am a worrier in that I take on other's worries as if they were my own,   & emotional too..  lovely combo    I think Jarrah will be similar..   
I have found that jarrah does that wierd pattern too that you were talking about.    Funny ot imagine throwing his blanket around and rattling the blinds.  J does that with the blinds too sometimes, and I think uh-oh we're headed for no nap... then he surprises me by going completely quiet, and I realise he's fallen asleep!    I am so pleased he did so well yesterday and didn't even need the dummy.  Fantastic.
  I have just put J down for a nap and is slient in there, very promising.

 

[sherry lynn]

OliverRowland - If you think it is too much to put in more nap I would do an earlier bedtime honestly. He is already getting up really early anyways, I don't think if you put him to bed earlier that he will really wake that much earlier. I was given the advice to make a 12 hour day, and that has worked pretty well here. (normally we have a 13-14 hour day)
The other day I put him down at 12.5 hours since wake up and that was the first time in a long time I got 12 hours that night. So maybe start with bedtime just a 1/2 hour earlier to see if that helps. It definitely sounds like he is OT.

Eloise - aren't you curious to see if the next LO will be more like DH. I am so curious. Although, this time I'm hoping for a few more of my own good traits to be passed on It seems that Lyle got all the same traits that were like DH. Like stubbornness. Although, I was not a stubborn child at all.

[EloysH]

so curious Sherry  for the both of us

So J is taking his two hour naps again, 2-4 pm and waking on his own. yeah!   I put him down at 8pm tonight and out like a light. 

Oh and he slept in till 7:30am the other day....   I am thinking the teething is making him extra tired lately.