How have you handeld dropping the last nap?

[huntersmummyinoz]

cant advise as we arent there just yet (tho with the 5.45 and 5.30am ew's we've had the last two mornings we might not be too far away!) so dropping off some SUPER HUGE HUGS for you will try and read up later, hang in there

[hrk]

Sher, do you remember what time it was when he finally crashed and fell asleep on the books.  The image of him doing that is just too darling to me. 

[sherry lynn]

Jean it was 12:30 ish. So in the end he ended up doing about 7 hours A time.

NW 2:15ish. Didn't have to go in.
Up for the day at 5:50. So ten hours of sleep.

He's been a little rough around the edges this morning. But still going to stick to the 12 nap, unless he completely falls apart before then.

Thanks for listening

[EloysH]

Sherry: huge hugs!!!
 I think try the 6.5 hour A time 12:30 nap for a while.  Are you waking him at 2? Whatever you do I think its more successful if you tailor it depending on how well he slept the night before.  OT happens so quickly in those early days so you have to allow a longer nap sometimes to get over the OT.

Jarrah napped today for the first time in 9 days, so i let him sleep till 4pm, he had a 3 hour nap. I put him down at 8pm on those type days otherwise 7pm.


What worked for us was if he has a short night, watch for tired signs getting difficult/whingy/ etc and put him down for the nap according to that.

Hi Jean, Karen, Kirry!

Karen: we have/had almost the same issues,  now a year on since this no nap nonsense started.

[~Karen~]

We've had nw's the last couple of nights.  Last night was quite quick but the night before I had to send dh in as I was on the verge of throttling him.  He fell asleep on way to my Mum's at 1030am yesterday but woke when I carried him in so only had a 10 min nap.  Will try and get him to have a nap today.  We've also taken him out of grobag as have got a duvet/pillow for him (he's still in cot) so not sure if that's having a bit of an effect right now.  I threatening to take them away from him last night though so he let me leave the room quite quickly.  Feel like he's in control though as he's right next to the baby's room and don't want Lewis getting woken up. 

This too shall pass!

How long do you think I should be letting him nap for?  Don't know whether to start limiting it to an hour maybe and see how we get on?  Can't keep playing the catch up game as we're just all over the place!  He's still refusing to go for naps at home though so will have to resort to the car I guess.  Or might walk Amy to school today and then he can fall asleep in stroller if he's tired enough.

How was your night Sherry?

[sherry lynn]

Well, things are the same old same old here.
We seem to be on A 9h50m night and then a 9 hour night cycle here.

Eloys - 12:30 would be 7 hours A time most days. 5:30 am seems to be the norm here right now, not the exception.
This morning Emory woke him, so I don't know if he would have slept more or not.

6h15m seems to be the time to put him down where he doesn't fight me. BUT, he often wakes crying in the middle of his nap. It has happened both times that I gave him this A time. So, he's a tad OT, but, there's nothing I can really do because he won't go down well before then.

Karen - we've had a few night wakings also lately. I guess it's the OT kicking in a little. I kept telling myself that too... this too shall pass. Still in grow bags here. Still sleeping all over the room here as well.

Lyle's been waking between 1h20m-2h himself.

If you are currently letting him do 2 hours then I would cut it to 1h30m before you cut it to 1 hour. Just to help keep OT at bay.

Thanks for checking in.

[hrk]

Hi Sher, hope you are doing good today.  It sounds like a pickle as to going too late and not sleeping or going too early and not sleeping long enough.  Which way does he tolerate the day better?  Overall which is better as far as grumpiness and bedtime?  Will anything in between 6h15 and 7 hrs work?  Maybe more towards one or the other, but not all the way there?

XXXXX

[~Karen~]

We had a 530am wake up as well but Ethan woke Lewis up.  At least he had a quick feed and went back to sleep till 9am, Ethan was having none of it! I let him have a 2 hour nap yesterday but today woke him at 1.5 hours so will see what the morning brings and take it from there. Have got him laying in my bed for nap right now. Figure it's better than driving around getting him to sleep and then I can feed Lewis if need be while we're laying there.

Do any of you know what the average nap length is at this age?

[hrk]

http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=85134.0

I fished this out; going to take a peek.  :-)

[~Karen~]

Cool, thanks Jean. Will try the 1.5 hours for a bit and see how we get on.

[hrk]

We are still doing 1.75ish and occassionally 2 hrs.  I think it is the increased activity during the day, though.  That is my theory at the moment for H.  He has always been on the low side.  This morning he woke at 6, and I told him it was still sleepy time.  He went back to bed until 7.  My under average napper is actually over average; I never thought I would see the day that happened.  Nights are still about 10-10.25).

[sherry lynn]

So Lyle napped 2.5+ hours yesterday and he actually slept longer than 10 hours last night. We haven't had a night like that in about a week I think.
So yesterday
Wake 5:30
Nap (in bed 12:08 with no fuss) not sure when he fell asleep
Woke once during nap but went back to sleep
Up for good at 2:54
In bed 8:05 (again no fuss) not sure when he fell asleep. But was asleep at 8:35 when I got home.

Woke 6:40 this morning.

Go figure

[~Karen~]

Yea Lyle!  I did 1.5 hour nap again today.  We did have a nw quite early on last night but then he slept till 730am so going to try and stick to 1.5 hours for a while and see how we get on.  Amy was up a few times last night, I can't win.  I think they might be hot though as it's boiling in their rooms.  Going to give them a sheet to sleep with tonight and see how they get on. 

[hrk]

Often if H wakes at night it is due to being hot.  I usually check his forhead first being it is summer.  I hear you on the nwings due to being too warm!

Great news that Lyle hopefully caught up.  For us it took almost a week after a 2.5 hr nap before he was back in his regular routine from one long nap.  Hopefully things will even out if he gets caught up?

[sherry lynn]

Jean - do you mean you let him sleep too much, and then he was "off" for a week?

Karen - YEY!!!!

I constantly feel like Emory and Lyle have a conspiracy against letting me sleep. They seem to coordiante who is going to be the "difficult" one

I think he got about 1.5 today.

When do you do bedtime on nap days?