Time for a set nap time? OR Limit Daytime Sleep? Set Bedtime?

[sherry lynn]

Karen - that is crazy about the coincidence with the DF  

I am going to keep that milk intolerance in the back of my mind because I did give Lyle soy formula because 2 of his cousins had a reaction to regular formula when they were babies. I just didn't even want to go through all of that. He loves almond milk, but I buy the fat free stuff for myself so I don't give him too much of that. Maybe I will experiment with giving him more of that then cows milk. It is very much a possibility.

I think this trick as worked, Karen, it's funny that we've both decided on the same thing now, no nap before 12   I think that is the key. One of the reasons that I decided to move it up is I noticed Heath's nap time has moved up and so I figured Lyle was ready. They have always been really close in the time they go down in the am. So thanks for sharing that Jean.

So I was wondering what time you all are putting your LO down to bed now a days.

Oh, I forgot to mention that we got a 6:30 wake up with a 3 hour nap yesterday, so I think the A time is key once again, I just didn't realize that it needed to be increased.

He was our "routine" yesterday
Wake 6:40ish
Nap 12-3  (woke at 2:30 but fell back asleep before I could get in there, oops, didn't have the heart to wake him)
In bed 7:50
Asleep 8:18
Awake 6:26

I am very pleased with that.

Eloys, I think you are absolutely right. And thanks for reminding me. Sometimes I forget that the spiritedness plays a roll in all of this. I think that was the thing I enjoyed most about reading RYSC. Seeing that some just do not fit into routines the way we would like, and I just have to except that. Lyle also has a night waking about once a week (where I have to go in) and no matter what he seems to have an EW about once a week. I can handle that. It's just when he throws the other EW or long NWs in there that freak me out

Thanks for all your help ladies in being a sounding board and working through all this.

Do you mind posting your current "routines" Karen I got yours

[hrk]

Hey Sher!
We are still doing the same, here.

6:15-6:45 wake up
12-usually about 2:20; Heath was catching up from a nap the day prior that was 1h40, so I let him go 2h50, yesterday.  That is a bit more than the normal amt we do for catching up.
8:30 bedtime

He was more fussy about getting ready for bed at 8 or starting to wake earlier (as nap was staying the same length).  I think we needed to cut his overall sleep.  Since I needed to cut somewhere, we did bedtime to keep the crankies at bay upon waking and afternoon. 

[sherry lynn]

Well... things didn't go so smoothly today, so hopefully we will still get a good wake up tomorrow. He did wake at 1.5 today and was unable to go back to sleep. Sigh. I'll try to keep a better eye on him tomorrow to make sure he doesn't get OT. I guess 5h30m was just too much. I think yesterday was 5h20m.

[hrk]

I thought I would report the similar findings I had to day, Sher!  LOL

Heath woke 1h15 in to nap.  I went in to find his loveys.  Back to sleep thankfully.  Just thought I would add than note, so you don't feel too alone.  hee hee

[~Karen~]

We only had 1.75 nap but that's not actually bad here, lol!

[sherry lynn]

Still doing bed at 7:30 I imagine. I'm going to shoot for that as well. He is just out of sorts, but I can't blame him too much as we haven't been out all day and we were outside for something like 4 hours yesterday.

[~Karen~]

Looks like he's gone down nicely at 730 here but it's only 737 so don't want to speak too soon, lol!

[EloysH]

Hi

Sher:  our routine:

Wake: 6-7am usually 6:30am
Nap 12pm  (latest 12:30pm) nap 1.5 - 2 hours
Bedtime 7:30pm  (sometimes 7:45pm) never earlier than 7:30 or else EW.

He sleeps 11 hours at night on average, hardly ever longer, this is why I do not bring his bedtime forward.  Sometimes he sleeps a 10 hour night, that gives us a waking between 5:30 - 6:00am.


Karen: good luck with implementing the holiday routine for Ethan, i hope that it can help him sleep longer at night for you!   I hope you get a ghood wake-up time after the nice bedtime of 7:30pm!  cmon canine!

Jean: I think we will be moving toward a later bedtime as you have in the future. I will move to that if Jarrah starts having 10 hour nights consistently.   I willl move bedtime up to 8pm if that happens.  But so far really pleased with 11 hour nights.  Did Heath end up getting any 2 year old molars?

[sherry lynn]

Ok, so I think I'm on to something now.

He only did 1.5 yesterday and I woke him after 12 hours night sleep. So he made up sleep at night!!!

I'm going to do 5h15m today which will put us just a little past 1:00 and maybe I won't let him sleep past 3. We'll see how it goes. He might cut the nap short on his own since he slept so much last night.

[~Karen~]

Clever boy!  I got woken up at 515am by a 20 month old singing the Mickey Mouse clubhouse theme tune    Still didn't put him down for nap till 12 though and hope it was a one off!

[hrk]

LOL Karen about the mickey mouse song.  :-)  How cute!

Eloys, no teeth, so I don't know if it was teeth.  For all the stuff going on with meds here, I wonder if it was just a part of all that mess. 

Have a super weekend everyone!

[~Karen~]

Ended up with nearly a 3 hour nap but had to get him back to sleep after about 1.75 as he was upset and clearly not ready to wake up!

Jean - Not so cute at 515 in the morning!!!

[sherry lynn]

I agree - not so cute at 5:20 this morning. I'm glad you were able to get a good nap in.

I ended up letting him sleep because he woke up at 1h15m   I didn't put him down until 1 when he was showing very clear signs of wanting to go down earlier. Then he didn't really settle for about 30 min, so I let him sleep another 1 and he still woke crying -when it was 2h45m total  
He was tired and cranky most of the evening. Ah well...

Have a good weekend too Jean

[hrk]

Just thought I would pop back to say H was up 3 times in the evening last night.  The third time I gave him motrin; he sttn for the rest of the time.  Perhaps we have a teething issue mixed in here too.  Sure isn't easy to figure ANYTHING out...

[sherry lynn]

*hugs Jean* They never do make it as simple as that do they? I hope he took a good nap for you.

Karen - I hope Ethan did a sleep in for you. Maybe him and Lyle traded places because Lyle was up at 5:08. I'm guessing not enough A time before bed, even though he went down without a peep.

Hope everybody is having a good weekend.