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Offline twogirlsmommy

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do I need to tweak her routine?
« on: December 16, 2010, 19:21:26 pm »
Okay so dd is 17 months old and since she as about a year we have been on the same routine (give or take) which has been fantastic  ;D

So here was our routine:
7am: Wake up
Nap: 12:30-2:00/2:30
Bedtime: 7pm

and she would sleep the 12 hour night....I don't know how I got so lucky but this worked for us unless we were ill or she was getting teeth.

Now I know the canines are coming but all of a sudden we have extreme tears before bed and we are waking more towards 6 am.  She wakes very happy talking to herself etc.  On days she does sleep till 7 and I have to wake her I here her around 5 kind moaning and fussing but she goes back to sleep.

Okay so on top of the earlier wake ups and the tears before bed every so often for the past couple weeks she has been going down at 12:30 but not falling asleep till 1.  I then let her sleep till she wakes up or until 3pm which is the latest I can go with out messing up bedtime.  Is this under tired nap and then overtired by bed or just completely overtired or just ready for an A time jump? any help appreciated.
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Re: do I need to tweak her routine?
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2010, 17:08:21 pm »
They do tend to drop their sleep needs a little at 18mths.

Perhaps move nap back to 1pm and then offer bed at the same time and see what happens, if that doesn't work then move bed back a tad too.
LAURA xx