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Takes ages to settle
« on: June 27, 2011, 12:49:18 pm »


Well ladies, it's been a long time since I needed to post about DS' sleep but here we are at 2 years exactly and the last couple of weeks he has been taking longer and longer to settle at naps and bedtime. I try and do lots to tire him out in the day and sometimes I ut him down and he goes to sleep without much fuss but mostly he sings an then shouts/fake cries for up to an hour and sometimes more! Any ideas??

So his routine if hesettles well is

up 6.30am
nap 12/12.30
bed 7/7.30pm

more recently its

up 6/6.30am
nap 1.15/1.30 after an hour or 1.5h of singing and playing and throwing things around his cot
bed 8/8.30 (as above with singing)

Mostly I leave him until he goes to sleep but at naps it's infuriating because he eventually wakes dd up who is 5mo and is easily woken at the 45 min mark....

What can I do to help him settle more?

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Re: Takes ages to settle
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2011, 14:03:54 pm »
Hi there, he sounds UT from what you describe.  Have you tried a nap cut yet?  Are all his teeth in already?  How is his behaviour in the day?
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Re: Takes ages to settle
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2011, 07:49:57 am »
Not really tried cutting his nap yet because they vary in length so much. Sometimes he can do 2 - 2.5h. Somtimes he'll wake after 1.5h and sometimes (like last friday) he did 3h. I let him sleep 3 h because he was woken up by my 5mo DD at 5am and he had been singing until 8.30pm the night before!!!!

He still has his final 4 molars to come through and I notices the bottom 2 were cutting 3 weeks ago and I guess are still coming in. Also we are potty training at the mo. He has been pretty clingy the last couple of weeks. Wanting lots of cuddles and easily upset. The other thing to note is that he is in the process of moving up rooms at nursery and he's started crying when I dop him off there. He was really settled in the younger room and he's really attached to one of the workers in that room.

So there is a lot going on for him in his little world, maybe this is the reason he can't settle easily.

What sort of nap length are they usually doing at this age?