Am I analyzing this too much??

[scucci1979]

Slap me if you must but I am constantly trying to figure my girls out. 

Over the past 8months Alyssa has been sleeping wonderfully with minimal nws and no ews.  Lately, she has been having a few nws, sometimes they can be long and some ews.
She just cut her last canine, so that could be contributing to the nws and ews! Not sure!! Could it be developmental/SA? She has recently had a language explosion. She started to put words to together to make short sentences. 
She has never been a great napper. I always wake her 1hr and 45mins into her nap. Otherwise she normally wakes on her own(1.5hrs).

normal routine is:
wake 7am
nap 12:30-2:15pm
bed 8pm

she is wild at bedtime. Normally if she is really tired she will tell me she is tired and go straight to sleep. For about 2months now, she will jump in her crib, laugh before she drifts off to sleep. She already has a high A after nap, so could she be OT??? 

[Lolly]

I would be inclined to try a 7pm bedtime for a while. If my two get wild at bedtime it's always because they are OT, I've missed the right slot and they have a second wind - takes forever for them to calm down then .

Laura

[scucci1979]

Going to try an earlier bt tonight. What confuses me is that she has always done higher A times after her nap. 

[<Catherine>]

It was at around this age that my DS wanted MORE sleep, if I remember correctly - and even once or twice into the 1-0 he had periods of needing the longer naps and the longer nights back.

She sounds OT to me too - definitely try the EBT for a few nights and see how it goes.

Otherwise, will she nap longer if you dont wake her? I remember DS suddenly wanting 3 hour naps for a short time (for no apparent reason, and his nights were longer too), I'm sure it was just before we started with all the 1-0 nonsense at 23 months - so probably at aound A's age I would guess.

[scucci1979]

Normally she wakes on her own, but it is always around the 1hr and 40min mark.  Yesterday she napped for 1.5 hours and before nap time she was playing around in her crib. I plan to put her down earlier today and hope that she will nap for a good two hours as she was up just after 6am.

[scucci1979]

she napped for 1hr and 45mins on her own and was in bed and asleep by 7:30pm. Woke at 4am crying for me. Wanted up so I sat in the rocking chair shushing her every time she called out for me. This took 1hr and 40mins. she didn't want pain meds. Could it be another spell of SA?

[Kay Dee]

How long have you been capping at 1hr 45mins? I wonder if she now needs a shorter nap to keep her day shorter, so maybe 1.5hr nap with 7.30pm bedtime?

x

[<Catherine>]

and was in bed and asleep by 7:30pm

I think regardless of the nap, BT needs to be more like 7pm, tbh.

[Buntybear]

Olly has just started to put words together and we are having some nap refusals. You make me think now they are related!

[scucci1979]

We have been capping for about 2months now.  I haven't tried an earlier bt with a shorter nap b/c she shows no tired signs. She plays and plays. When it comes to bt she is just so hyper. She wants to go into her sister's bed for a while then when we move to her room, she wants to play in her crib for a few minutes with the light on. When I tell her it is time to go to sleep, she gets angry with me. She is spirited when it comes to sleep.

I have always had to wake her in the mornings. It is just recently that she has been giving me long nws/ews. 

[<Catherine>]

I haven't tried an earlier bt with a shorter nap b/c she shows no tired signs. She plays and plays. When it comes to bt she is just so hyper.

This screams OT to me. I think the earlier BT is your only option - are you abe to try it for a few nights and see if it has any effect?

[Lolly]

I agree, I really would do a 7pm bedtime for at least a week to see if it helps.

Laura

[C&B&E]

I haven't tried an earlier bt with a shorter nap b/c she shows no tired signs. She plays and plays. When it comes to bt she is just so hyper.

This screams OT to me. I think the earlier BT is your only option - are you abe to try it for a few nights and see if it has any effect?

^^this.  I have to remind myself that my lo's sleep needs don't always go down as they get older and sometimes they have spells where they need earlier nights or longer naps (just like us!) x

[Kay Dee]

Ha! It totally suggests UT to me but that's coming from someone with two low sleep needs kids. DS was on a 1hr nap at this age and DD had dropped hers!!

[scucci1979]

that is the thing. If this was DD1, I would say OT for sure. But, Alyssa, I am not sure b/c she has always been a low sleep need baby.
She napped for 1hr and 40mins on her own. Woke up very cranky. Had rosy cheeks. Started wd at 7pm and was asleep by 7:40pm.  We read a book together, then she jumped in her bed for a few minutes. Once she was done, she told me she was tired. I said good night and didn't hear a peep from her.

I wonder if I should try bumping her nap later as opposed to earlier. We were technically doing an UT nap with a longer A to bed.