Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.

[Julianne1984]

Ugh,what a day...

A 7:15-11:30
S 11:30-12:40
A 12:40- ...? 6:30/6:45 ! He refused to sleep at pm catnap andis showing signs of teething argh!! I'm expecting a rubbish night, nw's, ew, the lot x

[Julianne1984]

Omg I've had a nightmare day with T. Crying/moaning all afternoon, bath lasted all of 1min and then he cried and held his breath because he couldn't reach a book he wanted...ugh... bed early at 6pm... (since he refused pm nap) I'm fully expecting ew 4:30am tomorrow and plenty of nw's, he was so tired. I gave him meds for the teething too. God I need a break... xx

[JaspersMum]

Julianne you poor thing!  I don't know what else to suggest . . .

We had an EW this morning (6am from 7.30pm so 10.5 hour night) and he was grumpy all morning . . wanted to go back to bed at 8.30! But I managed to keep him up and he went down just after 10am.  Because I work from home Monday mornings I am loathe to cut his am nap so I'm letting him sleep.  Am going to try and get him to bed at 6.30pm.

Have been thinking about cutting out the morning BF and wonder if that would help with the EW? 

[shresmummy]

Hi ladies, sounds like we are all having a rough time

Julianna - that sounds like a really rough day/night. How did your night go in the end? I hope he surprised you unexpectedly by sleeping well. We can all hope right?? That's all we can count on sometimes I feel!!

Rachel - what time do you do the morning BF? Is it if he wakes at 6ish? I also think there is no other way of doing this switch than to cut the AM nap. But yesterday despite that happening we got refusals at all sleep times. What the heck? DD woke around 7:30 I tried for AM nap around 11:15 she woke on her own at 11:55, then I tried PM nap at 2:55 she fussed to take it but finally did and I woke her around 4:10, tried bedtime at 8 and she had a fit! She cried nonstop for like 5 mins as though she was REALLY mad at me, then fell asleep at 8:15. Crazy child!

She slept till about 1ish and had a brief wake then slept till about 7 this AM when I woke her up. Now that's never happened before.?? I'm all confused.

Dont' know how today's going to turn out.

[Julianne1984]

Hey, well not too bad... NW@10pm, sarting to stir at 5:10am... I'm happy with that as there's enough time today to get 2 naps in!! 5:15ish isn't bad since he was OT and in bed early!1, 11.5hrs sleep

JaspersMum, Your BF early morning could be why your lo is waking early. That's a mega comfort for him, if you don't want to cut it out you could always move it later!? Xx

[Julianne1984]

Oooh we all had bad days yesterday then! I hope its a better day for us today! Xx

[shresmummy]

So much so for that hope. This morning DD had 40 mins at childcare, then only had 50 mins nap at home for her PM nap. I hope and pray she does and early bedtime. That's not enough sleep in a day is it? But she took aaaages to fall asleep for her PM nap, and woke up happy. What does that say? That it was enough sleep?

[Julianne1984]

Well Tyler only had 1hr15m yesterday and had a pretty good night! Still asleep, 5:30am! I give it another 5mins... xx

[Julianne1984]

5:45am! pretty good I say, 5minutes short of 12hours x

[shresmummy]

yay!! That's awesome. I keep forgetting, How old's your lo again? My DD is just going to turn 14 months, so I dont' know if she's ready to handle that amount of daysleep yet?

[Julianne1984]

1yr, 5mo, 1wk, 3days lol, so 17months xx

[JaspersMum]

Hi ladies,

Shock of all shocks DS took a pm nap today.  We cut the am nap at 1.5 hours and I know he could have slept longer due to his short night.  I put him down after 4hr 10m and he fell asleep 5 minutes later!  He slept for 35 minutes and I only think he woke due to noise in the house (we had a computer repairman over).  Now here's my theory (and I have many!!): he took a pm nap because he wasn't rested enough from the morning nap and he wasn't rested from the morning nap because he had a short night (10.5hrs).  Hmmm . . that's the theory . . who knows if I'm on to something or not!  He is a bit grumpy so I'm going to aim for a 7pm bedtime.

DS doesn't get a BF any earlier than 6.30am . . but therein could lie the problem.  Julianne your idea is good, I hadn't thought of that.  Perhaps I'll get him up, give him breakfast straight away and see if he wants a BF after that . . I didn't really want to wean until he was ready.

Priya you might find your DD makes up for lost sleep tonight.  DS tends to do that now . . he had 35 m ONLY one day and then slept 12 hours that night.

Wow Julianne, if DS is doing close to 12 hours you could really start pushing your day forward.

[Julianne1984]

I'm aiming for7-7 everyday but after yesterdays pm nap refusal it had to be 5:50! Any other day is 7pm where I want it anyway... so oncehe's sleeping to 7am I just need to get him onto one nap! Lol oh the fun... x

[shresmummy]

AAAUGH! That was me screaming and tearing my hair out. I swear I have absolutely no idea what DD"s issue is. We also had a shutter repairman at the house which stuffed up her PM nap I think?? But then again she woke up from it at a time when there was no noise. So who knows.

Anyway, this was our day. what do you think. Bedtime issues due to OT? UT? just DD craziness??

Wake - 7 (after a 11hrish night and I had to wake her up this morning. I bet she would've done 11.5/12)
AM nap - 10:30 - 11:10ish (at childcare. UT nap?)
PM nap - 2:40 - 3:35 (tried since 2:15ish cos I thought she was cranky??)
Bedtime - Tried since 7ish (fussed, threw bunny all over the place, only fell asleep around 7:30 after I had to pat her!!)

So far no NWs yet, hope that continues tonight.

[Julianne1984]

Aw no. I think the first one may have been UT. And the second one OT. I would have tried pm nap at 2 at the latest as the AM nap was only 40mins, 3.5hrs after that nap was probably too long. I hope your night goes ok!

T has just woken, again on the 1hr mark, from his AM nap (10-11). So second nap will hopefully be at 3-3:45, bed at 7pm. X