I keep losing my posts for some reason so I'm going to try to type quickly to get my story down before it disappears again!
My daughter's been doing well lately waking at 6:30, napping for almost 2 hours from 12:30 to 2:30 and sleeping at around 7:30 or 7:45. This is a big improvement from where we were with early wakings and only 12 to 12.5 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period. The change was caused by pushing her nap to later in the day and by shortening her A time before bed. I have been greatly relieved and surprised that it has worked out as well as it has!
In any case, here is the current problem. On Sunday, she completely refused to nap. After an hour of playing in her crib she finally called for me and eventually starting crying hard until I went and got her. I thought that maybe she refused the nap because she got a little more sleep the night before than usual. But today, a similar thing happened. Instead of falling asleep within 15 minutes, which has been her norm for the past several weeks, she was still awake a half an hour after going into her crib. Finally she fell asleep at 12:55 (she's usually asleep by 12:30).
Can someone explain why this might be happening and suggest a solution? I'm assumiing that I need to push her nap a little later, but how much later? And then what happens with her bedtime? Do I push that later as well? Any advice would be appreciated!!!
BTW, my daughter will be 23 months old next week.
Thanks for reading!!
