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

[EloysH]

Sher,  LO at the latest antics, small grobags, NW, wierd naps, crazy DH and Lyle!    I hope he slept in for you!  Sher hang in there, once those teeth are through you will have done alot of hard work and hopefully get Lyle sleepwing well again.

J went down like a dream again for his nap 1pm - no teething going on here.  Life is easy.   


Jean: did he go straight back to sleep after the NW?

Karen: awesome on Ethans going to bed well at night.   I wonder what time he woke this morning let me guess - 6am?

[hrk]

Sher, totally LOL about the grobag.  He seems to be getting twisted more in it.  I didn't see any on the Toads and Tulips site that were 3-5 yr (I think that is the next size?).  I only looked briefly.  I may look at amazon, too.  Your trip to the desert sounds fantastic!  Driving or flying?  I think I remember you mentioning family?

So, I think we have a record low for night sleep and a record high for nap?  Quite a week on this thread, eh?

So far one shout out for lovey.  He seems really hot; perhaps it is the grobag in addition to other things.  If we take him out of it to sleep, he loves to prop his legs through the bars, and then is mad he is stuck.  SIGH.

Eloys, they are all short wakings, so once he has lovey it is back to sleep.  Reflux/gas seem to be behind the longer ones, here.  The little wakings died down after a week on full dose of Nexium.  Now the small ones are back.  Perhaps teething; perhaps grobag.  Never an easy answer, right?  Love to hear life is easy.  Sounds like things have sorted out!

Karen, H tends to make up his sleep during the day more than night, too.  It is our flex time to catch him up.  I do have to tame it a bit, as he will not be ready for bed.  He loves that long a before bed.  I think his a is about 6 hrs minimum before bed?  Hope tonight is good and things are great tomorrow!

[hrk]

Quiet the rest of the night.  We did go to a pool/plaground for little ones last night for an hr and a half.  He is still crashed this morning.  He had so much fun (us too).  I wonder if there is something to limiting his milk.  I should measure to make sure he is getting enough for the RDA.

[sherry lynn]

I think I've learned my lesson.

4:20 this morning. Because of the late bedtime he did not wake happy like our last 4:20 wake up. So a 7.5 hour night.

Karen - I think Lyle was trying to beat Ethan's record. But you still have us by a half hour I hope you had a good wake up this morning.

Jean - do you have a .5 tog bag. I highly recommend one. Thought about even getting two this year. They are just so darn expensive. Our A time before bed is also usually close to 6 hours. 5.5-6 seems best. He will go to sleep at 5 hours, but the wake ups don't tend to be as good.

[~Karen~]

Sherry - We never learn our lesson.........5am wake up so a 10 hour night and he's just had a 3 hour nap.......so has Mummy! 

He was up at 215pm ish so what time should I do bedtime?  I was thinking about 730pm to try and push the mornings a bit later.  I'm going to all this effort and next week we'll be staying on another new place so don't really know why I'm bothering, lol!

[hrk]

Karen, lol that a 2:15 wake up would still mean an 8:30 bedtime here.  H does those long a's before bed.  Hugs for the change in routine next week, but hopefully it will be a great time!

Sher, we have the .5 tog, and he is hot.  Going to use just a t-shirt under from now on.  Turned down the thermostat to 71, so hopefully that is the key to a good night.  Upstairs gets so much warmer than downstairs.  Even with the fan for the whole house, it still doesn't cure the issue.  Our room gets too toasty, too.  Sorry about the new record.

Going to offer milk with snack and limit it to one glass at dinner in addition to the temperature remedies I mentioned.  Tonight is the block party and an old friend of ours that lives down the street is having a big bash, too.  Two parties, one night, and it has been rainy for most of the day.  Still should be lots of fun.

[jennandsophie]

We have early waking madness here too most days.  I think it's a combo of the sun rising so early now and just a seeming need for less sleep.  She used to sleep until about 6:45-7am for a while and now it's almost always between 6-6:30am latest.  She sometimes wakes in the 5s and usually goes back to sleep for a bit. 

I have come to realize the nap makes no difference at all for her.  She sometimes only sleeps 1hr at school or at home it's as much as 2.5hrs and she's still usually asleep by 8pm and up at 6 somthing the next morning.  We're averaging about 10-10.5hrs at night.  Not great, but don't know what else to do about it.

Just to jump in on the grobag discussion.  They cost a fortune here so I have found a close alternative that Sophie seems to like called SlumberSac.  I ordered a 1 tog online from ebay and though it was from a UK store, it was still cheaper than what I would have paid here for a Grobag.  It comes in 18-36 month size and it's pretty roomy.  It has ties on the side so that you can fold it up when they are smaller and unfold it to full size as they need it.

[hrk]

Thanks Jen!  I should look at those, too.  H is wearing some smaller 4T shirts now (slimmed to comfortably fit 2T bottoms), as he has a big head.  I think I have to go with a larger size.  I saw him stand next to my cousin's son today (a year older), and he was only about 1.5 inches shorter!  Probably heavier, too.  We do 10-10.5 at night lately, too.  Wow to the bedtime, if she is able to stay up to 8 on an hr.  Go Sophie!  So glad she is liking school now.  A relief that starting is behind you now. 

[EloysH]

Jean:  Well at least the NW's are short. Cute that he has an attachment to his loveys.   

Karen:   So  defo aim for 7:30pm, if I put J down before then he wakes too early, I assume that he will wake in 10 hours, so a 7pm bedtome would mean 6am wake-up.  hta'ts why I don't put himdown at 7pm anymore. Lately its been   11 hour nights but you never know when it will be 10 hours.

Jenn:  Jarrah wakes with the lgiht too. In summer he was rarely sleeping in past 6am, (when it gets light).  There are an awful few weeks where it is light at 5:30am and he was waking then too!!

SherryLyn: oh dear! you must be shattered    *hugs*

[sherry lynn]

Eloys - I just saw on Charms post how well J is still doing for you. I'm so proud of him. Good job J.

Jen - it seems to be the same for us. A 30 min nap all the way to 2.5 and we get a 10 hour night right now. Sometimes he seems to make up a little, but very rarely so I don't count in it.

Karen - I hope bedtime worked out for you. I think 3 hours is ok, you just know it will get you a shorter night. I mean I've learned my lesson with letting him sleep over 3 hours. Over three hours and he seems to like to wake at 4:30 am. I'll just have to keep reminding myself of that. It's hard though because usually it's been a roughish morning, so I can't face waking him on those days. Put I have to get strong and just do it.

[babymunkey]

Hey girls - just reading along - btw is there a birth club for 18 month plus?

Not sure if it helps, but was going to offer to look out for Grobags on special (I got my summer ones 30% off by buying in the summer sale at the beginning of the autum last year in Mothercare, so was paying about £20) - if you want me to and it makes it cheaper am happy to post them to you?

H

 

[EloysH]

Sherry:
sending *brave vibes* to you Sherry, you've got a good reason to wake him and if that means that you don't see another 4:30am then well worth it even if he is whinging for 30 mins or so after wake-up.  It takes days for me to recover from such EW, its just NOT COOL.


It is just great with J's naps this week  and really enjoying my little boy growing up .. he's getting so tall and thinning out a bit.   

I'm still getting used to his voice and words, he was just making those "Uuuh uhh" noises not long ago !  Soo many cute things to report - just one:..... at night time he was on DH's lap ready to read stories, and I went in to give him a  kiss goodnight.  He is usually too busy to care but last night he said after a kiss " Mumma, I like it, kisses!"  just melted my heart so I had to give him another!

[~Karen~]

Helen - Yes there's a 18-24 month one that we're all member off! 

Eloys - So cute!  I know, they're turning into right little boys now aren't they!

Sherry - How was last night?

We had a 7am wake up yesterday........after a 3 hour plus nw!  Actually, think it was closer to 4 hours!  His nap was just shy of 2 hours yesterday and then he went down fine at 7pm and woke at 6am.  Did have a short nw at 10pm so I just went to bed and then he settled.  Sharing a room with him so not ideal.  We've also been getting some nw's from Amy but again with room sharing it's just not great for their sleeping!  Oh well, we'll be home in a few months and then I can sort them both out!!

[jennandsophie]

Sherry - I know it's hard to wake him from a nap, but you know what works best.  No more 4:30am EWings!

Jean - LOL at Heath's head.  Sophie has a huge head too.  Maybe that's why she falls over a lot!  I've had major tug of wars trying to get shirts on her.  There were a few I had to just give a away because her head would not fit!

Helen - thanks for the offer.  I may take you up on that.  I'll let you know.

Eloise - that's so sweet.  I often wish Sophie would get better with her language, but it's moving slowly.  I now make her say words instead of signing them all the time.  Sometimes she won't, but at least I try.  

Karen - hugs for the long NWing.  I wanted to ask you about what you do about sharing a room, but I guess now I know.  Must be tough.

Well, we had a 5:45am EWing this morning.  SO NOT IMPRESSED.  It was a 2-hr nap yesterday and asleep by 8pm, as usual.  It seems to be getting earlier and earlier.  DH wants to cut her nap down to 1.5hrs, but I'm not sure that's the solution either.  Aaarggh...just when things were going well it all started...it all goes to pot~!

[~Karen~]

Helen - Have you checked out TKMAXX for grobag's?  I got Ethan's (and Lyle's!) last one there and they have the proper ones for only £10.  Just depends on what stock in is at the time.

Jenn - Hugs on the ew.  We're doing the best we can in the circumstances!  There's just no point getting them to sleep in a room on their own when we have the chance as after we leave here they'll have no choice but to be sharing rooms with us.  It's all part of the fun though, lol!