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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #120 on: November 12, 2009, 12:43:46 pm »
Teething is so hard sometimes isn't it. My lo seems tp bw teething less the last few days.

So first nap today 11:10-12:35!! After 5h15m a time! Good naps seem to be making a comeback yay. Must have been teeth causing his sixty minute naps!! Xx
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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #121 on: November 12, 2009, 19:33:26 pm »
Hey how has everyones day been? My little monster has been harder to get to sleep for his PM nap the last few days, and today, in perfect napping conditions (optimum A time, pushchair, dark/night time setting in, rain as white noise) he screamed blue murder and downright redused his nap. He went to bed, easily as ever at 7pm.

A 6:00
S 11:10-12:35
S 18:50 :) Yay!

...though I can't guarantee no Nw's/Ew's tonight!! :\  xx
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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #122 on: November 13, 2009, 03:50:00 am »
We have had a horrible day so far . . not so much with naps but DS's mood!  He is so whingey!  I think he is teething again . . I wish these damn molars would come through!  He was asleep by 6.30pm last night after missing his catnap (my fault).  I think he was awake between 4.30am and 5am . . possibly because of the heat . . we are going through a heatwave of about 7 days of 39 degrees!  He went back to sleep thankfully and was up at 6.30am.

Wake - 6.30am
Nap - 10.10 - 10.50 (this was in the car on the way to kindergym)
Nap - 2.10 -

Here's hoping he sleeps for at least an hour! 

Julianne, good to hear things are improving!

Priya doesn't it get annoying when they refuse their food!!  DS has been a bit like that lately, come to think of it!
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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #123 on: November 13, 2009, 06:03:09 am »
Just a quicky...

No nw's!! But up at 5:30, a combo of OT, stupidly loud rain :o and OH banging the front door! Its actually a good day to wake early as now his naps will fit well with our toddler group and things today! Lol. So I'm not disheartened, it'smade things easier hehe. I'm going to give him a 30min nap on the way to toddler group @ 9:30-10, and a nap at home at 12:45-2pm. Bed at 7pm+ xx
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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #124 on: November 13, 2009, 09:38:26 am »
I am RAGING. I spent ages getting me and Tyler ready to go to a toddler group,the only thing that keeps me sane... the theory was a 30min catnap on the way in the pushchair.Got him in there, didn't even get to the end of the road. He screamed like someone was trying to kill him. Really loud to the point people were staring from the other side. I'm so angry with him. So now we are stuck at home. Brilliant. I put him in his cot and left him because I was that angry. I realise how hard it must be for people with multiples now, 1 is challenging enough! Gosh sorry I needed to vent! Xx
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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #125 on: November 13, 2009, 09:40:51 am »
And because he's in his cot,he fell asleep, and now he's having his long nap early, there's no way I'm waking the monster early from it. He'll just have to have a longer A time before his catnap later. Uuuugggghhhh.
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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #126 on: November 13, 2009, 18:41:38 pm »
Hi!  I don't have time to catch up on all the reading, but I'm jumping back in here.  My Mikey is 15.5 mos.  We are STILL not on one nap.  Have been doing the 20m am nap the past few days, and he absolutely hates being woken up at 20m!!!  I have been getting a long afternoon nap, though, so that's one good thing.  He's sleeping about 10.5 hrs at night, no matter what I do.  We seem to have been all over the place with wakeups over the past month or so. 

Today I got a 6:40 wake up, so I decided to try for one nap, just to see what happened.  Put him down at 11:15, and he was asleep by 11:25 (after some babbling, of course!)  He woke at the 35m mark...classic for him if he's OT!!!  He did go back to sleep, though...fingers crossed.


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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #127 on: November 13, 2009, 19:08:12 pm »
Hi! I just want to jump in so I can follow along as we are in the midst of the 2-1 as well!  H is 14 months, we've been doing the 20 min nap for about a month now. We get a 1.5-2 hr pm nap but we still get 10.5/11 hrs at most at night.  Comes with the territory I guess! 

Kara, sounds like we're in the same position as you! Unfortunately we get a 6am wake up :( But we make H stay in bed until 7 and he usually does well only crying out on occasion. 

What is the next step after the 20 min nap? H does between 3/3.25 hrs after his 20 min nap and then 4 hr to bedtime. He goes to bed really easily so I can't imagine he needs more A time before bed.  I don't know if bedtime gets pushed back or am nap gets cut. Seems like we run out of hours in the day!


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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #128 on: November 13, 2009, 19:31:59 pm »
I don't know what the next step is, but today I tried for one nap after 4.75 A, and it did NOT work well!  Woke after 35m, back to sleep, woke after the next 35m.  He was really crying, so I got him up.  We will have to do some type of nap this pm, since there is NO WAY he can make it until bedtime on that crappy nap!


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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #129 on: November 14, 2009, 05:30:36 am »
Argh 5am again! Wwwwwhhhyyyy! It probably doesn't help that his day was this:

Wake 5:20am
S 9:30-10:15
S 13:30-14:00
S 18:00-18:15
S 19:00... 3 naps!! No NW's but EW again today :( xx
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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #130 on: November 14, 2009, 08:56:26 am »
Hi Julianne,
sorry about the bad day yesterday, it's so frustrating when they make life hard for themselves not to mention us!
as you said he had 3 naps yesterday but only at a total of 1.5 hours, is that normal for him, it seems little to me. The EW was most probably OT maybe you should give him a couple of days of not waking him up from his naps and let him catch up? Don't know if that would work for your DS, he is older than mine, but that's probably what I'd do for a day at least. Also I think on days like that when you need that 3rd catnap you should probably try earlier. Because by 4 hours he's probably tired enough to do a decent nap and so just getting 15 min after that isn't cutting it. try after 3 hrs maybe, that way he has at least an hour or 2 before bed.
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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #131 on: November 14, 2009, 10:15:55 am »
I never wake him from naps. He has 30 mins if we are out, for some reason will never sleep past 30mins in the car/pushchair !? And his long AM nap he wakes himself at exactly one hour, sometimes stirs and carries on sleeping, but normally wakes at 60mins. I have put him down for a nap at 10:10, he should sleep 60mins, and will have another 30m later. 1hr30m is normal for him at the minute, its all a mess. And he only had 10hrs last night :o x
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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #132 on: November 14, 2009, 10:45:45 am »
Hi! I just want to jump in so I can follow along as we are in the midst of the 2-1 as well!  H is 14 months, we've been doing the 20 min nap for about a month now. We get a 1.5-2 hr pm nap but we still get 10.5/11 hrs at most at night.  Comes with the territory I guess! 

Kara, sounds like we're in the same position as you! Unfortunately we get a 6am wake up :( But we make H stay in bed until 7 and he usually does well only crying out on occasion. 

What is the next step after the 20 min nap? H does between 3/3.25 hrs after his 20 min nap and then 4 hr to bedtime. He goes to bed really easily so I can't imagine he needs more A time before bed.  I don't know if bedtime gets pushed back or am nap gets cut. Seems like we run out of hours in the day!

After the 20 minute nap, the next step is usually to drop that and go to one nap!  I kept with the 20 minute nap until the day when DS just refused it, and put him down later on for one nap, albeit a bit early in the day.

So if he is doing -
First A 3 - 3h30m
nap 20 min
Second A 3+h
nap 1h30m - 2h
Last A 4h
Bed

Then what will likely happen is that one day he just won't go down for that first nap, and then you abandon at a certain point in time because it starts to get too late for that little catnap, so just don't bother with it!  He will then likely be ready for sleep sometime around 4 - 4.5h A time and will hopefully sleep a minimum of 1.5h, but really what you need to make it through the day is 2h....but that can take a bit of time for him to lengthen that out.  And, then bedtime might have to be earlier, 4h after he wakes from that nap, even if that is early in the day. Hopefully he will make up the missed day sleep by tacking it on to his night.

We were fine on that for a few days and then DS was shattered in the morning at his old catnap time (930-1000) so I would let him have it.  And then a later 1.5 hour afternoon nap. For the first two weeks or so I watched him carefully to see if he was tired for the catnap or not, and if so, then I put him down, if not I held off for nap until 1100/1130 and do an early bedtime (530/600) if he didn't take a 2 - 2.5 hour afternoon sleep.  I think there were more days WITH the catnap than without. So he would sort of do a one nap day every 5 days, then after a while it became every 4 days, every 3 days, every second day and so on. Now he is onto one nap, with a two nap day happening once every 6 or 7 days. 

Hope that is helpful!

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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #133 on: November 14, 2009, 15:37:04 pm »
That is quite helpful, mashi!  Thank you!


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Re: Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.
« Reply #134 on: November 14, 2009, 19:17:45 pm »
Hi everyone,
Bleugh - such a bad day :(
Could you post your current routines for me with your lo's age as I am having a head spin and not sure which way to turn with A times etc. I looked in toddler routines but a lot of them are for much older bubs. Mine is 12.5 months. Thank you xxx




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