Anyone Want To Talk About the 2-1 Transition? Thread #13

[~Karen~]

Hugs Sher.  Oh, it's not totally smooth sailing.  We have two different days going on with one nap or two naps.  I find it all a PITA tbh and hope I'm not creating some bad habits, lol!  Will be so glad when he's on one nap as I know where I stand then!

[kimmbba]

thanks Daylene and Sherry Lynn...I needed someone to confirm that I need to stop   I'll try W2S first and see how it goes, and if he's still waking up I'll do water in his sippy.

[Little toes]

Hi everyone, I posted previously when dd first started transitioning. Now we've got her to one nap at noon-2pm ish. But since the transition I can't get her to sleep in her crib at night. I do the same routine as I've always done, but now when I go to put her in her crib her eyes pop open and she freaks out. I've tried every method already. I was wondering if that's an OT issue? Today she was up at 730, nap 1230-230. Gonna put her to sleep at 7pm-ish. I've been too tired and have been putting her beside me on the floor (on blankets). Anything to get her to sleep. Just wondering if you have any thoughts about her 'reverse doll eyes' as we call them. Oh and I should mention she'll pass out on me or dh and go into her crib no prob for her nap. Thanks. 

[~Karen~]

We were having similar at bedtime (but also not for naps) for a couple of weeks but seems to have stopped for now.  I put it down to SA as he'd stop crying the moment I went in his room.  They get a lot more knowing at this age! 

[Little toes]

I definately see a lot of SA with her, I mean a lot. I was wondering if it had something to do with the 2 - 1 nap, OT. But maybe it's just SA. Hoping it'll pass soon. Thanks

[Lola's Mum]

Sherry, sounds so tough. (((hugs))). Wish l had answers.

Megan, wish l had answers to your questions too as Ellen and Lola seem pretty similar on there A times right now. I also find that if push the morning A even 10 minutes too much l get a 1:15 OT nap. Although just to confuse me, she slept 2.5hrs after 4.5hrs A time when we had to go to hospital last week.

Had such a terrible night last night. At 1am l went and slept in Lola's room as she had already been awake 3 or 4 times and that's usually a taste of things to come. And it was. She woke loads. It was partly OT (frm previous 1 nap day and BT just 10mins too late) but she also has 5 teeth coming through and a cold. That has to be playing a part. I set my alarm for 7 this morning but couldnt get up and we then woke at 8.30. Darent risk a 1n day so had to cap naps at 1:10 and 30mins. Does seem crazy that this is better than a 2.5hr nap. When l put her down tonight at 8.30 l fell asleep in her room next to the cot and woke up gone 10pm. Was so exhausted. DP is away for 2 weeks so there was nothing to get up for! Im now not tired. Im hoping for a better night and l hope the nws and ews stay away for all. My dilemma: shall l set the alarm for 7??

[lilybug25]

we ended up with a 1 nap day today, a little over 2 hrs. yesterday I broke her mobile when I was winding it up and I took it apart and some plastic parts were snapped so I called the company to get a new one and they are back order for over 3 months!!! SO needless to say LO is have a time falling to sleep as she always has her mobile going when we leave the room, she is not crying for it mind you just taking 45-1hr to get to sleep without it!!!

[bug_blues70]

Daylene, that IS so precious!! I can't wait to hear Ellen say mama!! Like you said, I'm pretty sure she knows it means me, but I have yet to hear her say anything even remotely like it. I've heard her say dada a few times and wondered if she meant it (she says that randomly sometimes) but at least there I *know* she knows who dada is. If I say it, she'll start looking at the door or window and think he's home, hehe.

Sherry Lynn - I'm so sorry!! It sounds really horrible for both you and your DS!!

Sophie - yep, sounds the same - including the extra 10 min resulting in a 1:15 OT. Happened today And 5 teeth?? WOWEE!!! I can't wait until all Ellen's teeth are thru! She has a huge purple bump tonight on her bottom right tooth. It's only her third, and they come one at a time... and very slowly. And hugs on the DP being gone for so long!! That's rough!!

Lilybug - sorry about the mobile... hopefully she will miss it less and less each day!!

[LovelyLilyandJack]

We were having similar at bedtime (but also not for naps) for a couple of weeks but seems to have stopped for now.  I put it down to SA as he'd stop crying the moment I went in his room.  They get a lot more knowing at this age!

That' reassuring cos we're having the same thing with naps but not bedtime.  I've been worried we're putting her down way too late, but she's doing 2.5hr + naps so it's not affecting her sleep once she drops off (so far).  I think she's cross cos she wants to nap on me.  As soon as I pick her up for a cuddle before bed and say it's bedtime her eyes start drooping, but when I put her in her cot she starts crying.  It's getting less and less each day though.  Hopefully it'll pass soon!

[Daylene]

Hi, girls.  Sorry to hear everyone's having such a rough time of it!  Maybe it's a transition thing, maybe developmental...At any rate, we've had night terrors several nights in a row now.  I'm lucky because Tara doesn't seem to wake fully with a night terror and even though she screams, she can self-settle.  It's hard to hear her going through it, though.  I know with Carly, night terrors were a very clear sign of OT, and I'm thinking it's the same with Tara, but I've been tweaking her routine no end to get rid of them, without luck yet.  We've had them on one-nap days and 2-nap days.  After A times of 3:45, 4:25, and 4:45.  They are almost always followed by EW's, though sometimes she's able to resettle and sleep past 7am.  I'm also having a hard time finding an A time for 1-nap days that results in a nap longer than 90 minutes.  This wasn't a problem when we first started the transition; only recently.  Well, good luck, ladies; hope you had better nights!

[lilly_kitt]

Hi Ladies

Hope you can help, Tyler is almost 15 months old and his naps are bonky to say the least.  When he's in nursery (2 days a week) he has 1 nap after lunch for about 1.5 hours regardless of when he woke (sometimes 6 hours A time ??) but i guess he's too busy to be tired.  When my husband has him, if he wakes at 6.30 then he has two naps, long in the morning, and short in the PM as he wakes him at 4 as not to mess up BT.  When he's with me then I watch his cues.  Today he woke at 6.30, but did not go back down until 11.20, woke after 45 mins, but managed to AP to get him back down, which is where he is now.  The problem with having such a early 1 nap is that he's going to be knackered at 5, and once again his BT is different.  Early BT normally means more NW as he's teething at the moment so not eating well during the day.
We never have 2 days the same....  I dont know what to do as the number of naps seem to depend on when he wakes and what he's doing that day.  Thats cant be right, surely !
Sarah
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[bug_blues70]

I dont know what to do as the number of naps seem to depend on when he wakes and what he's doing that day.  Thats cant be right, surely !

Sounds like us at the mo. Every day is different and I just have to play it by ear every day - and I'm her only caretaker, you have three different people/places trying to hold a routine. Wish I could be more help, just wanted to let you  know you're not alone!


Jacki - we're having the same so I feel for you. Actually, I think Ellen's are teething and not terrors b/c she'll kinda whimper-cry, but it is heartbreaking just like you said. Good luck on the tweaking to get rid of it!!

[kimmbba]

Jacki, I am pretty sure Ethan had some of these for about a week.  He'd wake screaming, almost not even awake fully, and had to be picked up and reassured for several minutes to help calm him down.  Is this the same with Tara?  We just kept going in and reassuring him that he was okay, that we were there, and he'd go back to sleep, and it was over in about a week.

We had a crappy night.  Sure it was OT, very restless and of course EW.  Typical at 5am, tried W2S at 4 but I guess that didn't work   Then at 5:10 gave some water, left and he stood in his crib whinning for 20 min, turned to crying.  so, we're up.  He's super crabby, because he's tired and hungry.  At 6:15 I gave in with a bottle and we'll do solid breakfast at 7-7:30 like normal.  2 nap day today, hopefully!  I'll have to work hard for that second one I'm sure, but it'll just have to be.

Sarah, (this could get confusing, more than one Sarah ) days that aren't ever the same seem pretty normal.  We went through it for a while, then I had a couple weeks of days that were pretty much the same, and maybe I'm headed back to flying by the seat of my pants with the EW/ early BTs again.

Lily bug, maybe with the mobile being broken and on back order so long, she won't need it to sleep anymore??  Do you have white noise or anything else you use?

[lilybug25]

kimmbba, we have a cd player in her room that plays white noise( waves hitting rocks over and over again). Last night only took 15 miins to get her to sleep, I give it to the middle of the week and she will be use to not having the mobile anymore.
My mom offered to try to track one down where she lives and next time BIL comes down for work(2 times a month), he could drop it off, I said no thanks we will just get by without it, as sooner rather then later LO will be in a toddler bed as she is sometimes going over the side of her bed now

[shellsy1321]

How do you all keep up with this thread lol  I missed so much!!  What does it mean when you post my spot btw?? 

Im in tears right now because DS has only napped 40min naps all day pass 2days.  I shouldnt complain since at 530 he goes to bed with no issues and wakes around 730 and plays till 8 right???