Support Thread for 2-1 Nap Transition cont'd pt 3

[clairebear79]

Can you nudge nap & therefore BT later by say 10mins?  Do this every few days until you get where you want to be  I know sometimes easier said than done but might be worth a try?

O managed a 5hr A again this AM.  Still asleep & coming up to 1h 45.  FX'd he sleeps a while longer yet.  His teeth seem to be really hurting him today - upper molars coming in now.  I'll sure be glad when all this teething business is done!

ETA: I shouldn't have just wrote that - he literally just woke as I pressed post.  1h 45 again.  Why ladies    Does he need an even longer A Last week we got 2h & 2h 15 naps on 3h 40 and 4h A times.  I am so lost with him!!!  He's woken up crying & its only 12.20pm.  Its going to be a long time to BT today.  Siigh.

[newmama12]

Bad morning. Up before 5. UGH! UGH, again!! I think he was OT. Had short naps yesterday and a traumatic incident. He fell really hard on his mouth and has a fat lip. The inside of his lip was all swollen and bruised. Poor babe. He got a late nap PM nap b/c I took him to the dr to check it out (he's fine, thankfully!). So, he napped from 2-3:10 and I woke him to maintain a decent BT. But then I didn't get him in bed till just after 7. So, I think that was way too long of an A with only an hour PM nap.

Today's going to be a bit wonky b/c he's already OT. I might have to let him do an hour this morning. Well, I think I'll only do 45. We've been keeping with the 45. Then I'll aim for a much earlier PM nap, like around 12:30, and hopefully he'll do 2 hours there to make up. Then, probably a 6:30 BT (depending on that PM nap) to catch up some more. Argh! This is so tough!

Claire, I was reading your post yesterday and was cringing at the 11-12:30 (ish) nap. I dread that stage! LOL! I remember going thru it with dd. She would do 1 nap early like that and I'd be so panicked that I had 6 hours of afternoon to fill. She was so crabby too and would only nap 1.5 hours max. She's also spirited, so that frustrated things even more. I really am hoping J's a little easier when we get to that stage.

ETA: He just woke himself after 45. He was sooo tired and I kept him up till the usual time. Hoping for an early and good PM nap!

[scucci1979]

Claire, I question A's nap all the time. She is already doing 5.5hours of A time and that doesn't even give me a two hour nap. Does she need to do 6hrs? I just don't get it.


Poor little man! I am sure he has already forgotten his fall. 
All I have to say is I hate 2-1 but I really hate 1-0? LOL

[scucci1979]

ladies, she woke up 45min later. I was able to get her back down. Technically from a 6am wu, she is doing 6hours. Do you think she is just plain OT?  I count her A time from 6:30am instead of 6am.    I don't know if I should try a 11:30am nap tomorrow if she wakes at 6am.

[scucci1979]

Overall nap was 1hr an 40min. I had to hold her for 10min. 

[clairebear79]

Sabs - did she wake crying?  6hrs does sound a lot - so could be OT.  I guess if she were truly UT, she would wake happy & wouldn't resettle as she'd have had enough sleep IYSWIM?  I have a BW friend whose LO wakes at 6am BT at 7pm & he does 5hrs A in the AM so nap is 11-1 or thereabouts.  But then he prefers his longest A time to BT.

Cyndie - hope you get caught up on your OT.  LOL that my post made you cringe!!!  We had similar happen today aaarrrggghhhh

So ladies he did:
Wake: 5.40
Nap: 10.40 - 12.20  (why oh why 1h 45 again after 5hrs A )
CN:    4.30 - 4.45   (in car)
BT:    7.00      (he just had a little cry 10mins after BT though so I think he's OT)  

So only 2hrs sleep for a day 13h 20 long.  I think we are also in OT territory & I really hope the longer day doesn't mean he gives us another shorter night.  

[newmama12]

No luck on him catching up today. I don't know if it's his molars or what, but he just woke from his PM nap after only an hour. He did a 3 hour A between naps (AM was barely 45 minutes). He was super tired, so I guess we have another OT situation with this EW from nap. Grrrr! And....it's only 1:30 pm.

[clairebear79]

Cyndie - oh poor J.   How long was he up before his AM nap today?  Maybe it was just the accumulated OT & the 3hr A was too much?  Give him an couple of hours then could you get him down again for a little CN???  Maybe go for a drive?  At least that way he hasn't got such a long time to BT.  & remember tomorrow is a new day!

[scucci1979]

Cyndie, tomorrow is a new day. 

After her nap today , we went to the beach and on the way home she dozed off for 5mins in the car. I think she fell asleep around 7:15pm.   
did I mention I hate naps!

[scucci1979]

we got a 5:40am wu here. What in the world is going on?

[Lemonthyme]

So did we but 5:40am is a good day for us!!!

[newmama12]

Yeah, a 5:40 would be good for us too!

So, yesterday, after he woke early from his PM nap, I let him be up there for a good 6-7 minutes and he went back to sleep for another hour+!! I let him sleep and he was a happy camper. Woke about 3:00 and I still kept a 7pm BT b/c he had such a long nap, afterall. He went right to sleep at 7 and had a good night. I 'think' he woke around 5:30ish?! I'm not really too sure. It might have been earlier. I turn down the monitor and don't tend to hear him till he's really up and babbling or even fussing to get out. Unfortunately, I had to do an early nap this morning b/c we have an appt late morning. So, it'll be early (which he should do just fine) and short. Hoping to get another 12:30-2:30 nap this afternoon!

Now....if we can only get out WU's to 6am, that would be awesome!

[clairebear79]

Sorry ladies...... we got 6.10am today!  However you might all let me off given how many months of horrible EW's we have had!!!

That was 11h 10 night sleep for us.  So not too bad.  He's at IL's today & his naps are usually shorter than at home so I suspect I will be out for a drive with him this afternoon to try & get the elusive CN.

Ladies he almost fell asleep on the way to IL's this morning at 9.45am.  Yawning & that glazed look - do you think thats just b/c he was in the car or b/c he was actually tired???  He perked up a bit once we got there & I told them to PD at 11.10am (5hr A) or earlier if they felt he needed it, but I'm a little worried he was maybe ready to sleep at 9.45 (3h 40 A).  He has these super huge bags under his eyes & they are just not going away.

[clairebear79]

Update:
Wake: 6.10am
Nap:  11.35am - 1.20pm    A = 5h 25  S = 1h 45
BT:    6.35pm                   A = 5h 15

I'm pleased he slept more at the IL's than usual but still only 1h 45 (why no more ), and that was after a whopping 5h 25!!!!  I asked them to PD at 5hrs but they were a little late & then it took him a while to settle to sleep.  He's been happy all afternoon - I took him for a drive at 4.30 to try & get a CN then realised he'd only been awake 3hrs so it was unlikely, he didn't fall asleep.  So we had to do EBT.  I wanted to have him asleep no later than 6.40pm as he's never slept more than 11.5hrs so if I make the day shorter than 12.5hrs then we'd get an earlier WU tomorrow.  I think he was OT at BT though.  So we'll see what tomorrow brings.

Ladies do you think I should cut back that AM A time again He was (sometimes) doing longer naps when he was doing 3h 40 - 4h 20 A time.  Maybe I have pushed too far?  Yet we're not getting OT wakeups during naps.

[scucci1979]

Claire, I am still trying to figure out A times. We got a two hour nap today but I had to go AP the last half of it.