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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #225 on: August 20, 2012, 17:18:30 pm »
Hi Hun,

Well let's just hope she was more well rested after a good night. Here's to a fast settling at BT. She's doing really well when you consider the huge change of cot to bed. Are you going to bring BT earlier  ??? or see how she is  ???

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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #226 on: August 20, 2012, 17:38:21 pm »
She's just had her bath & is watching ITNG, going to take her up to bed for 7.00pm which would make it a 5hr A then hopefully she won't take long to settle. x
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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #227 on: August 20, 2012, 19:11:19 pm »
She was in & out of bed but finally stayed in bed at 7.45pm and was asleep within 5mins lol. So tonight took 50mins. Today has went:

Up - 7.30am
Nap - 12.55pm - 2.00pm
Bed - 7.50pm

We've had our 1st wake up after an hour :( - I didn't really need to go in but i went in anyways to see if she was okay (It wasn't a really upset cry i need you cry) and she was moaning/crying but she had her eyes closed :S x
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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #228 on: August 20, 2012, 21:28:55 pm »
A good day Honey. officialy it isn't a WU unless you have to intervene, so start counting only those ones and I reckon you'll feel much better  ;D

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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #229 on: August 21, 2012, 06:23:19 am »
Ahh, we didn't have any last night then lol :D She did cry out at 8.50pm, 12.30am, moaned at 5.20am and up for the day at 7.00am.

I thought when she was crying out it was still classed as a WU even if i didn't need to go in? x 
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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #230 on: August 21, 2012, 06:44:12 am »
Jemma, that is a fabulous night, I can't tell you how pleased I am  ;D I hope you got some good sleep too  ??? I think maybe she is starting to catch up and feel better..do you think so too  ???

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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #231 on: August 21, 2012, 07:00:41 am »
She always wakes me when she cry's out but i guess you don't need to wake up properly when you don't need to get out of bed lol.

I'm hoping for a longer nap than 1hr today though. x
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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #232 on: August 21, 2012, 07:21:34 am »
Yeah, you actually get used to waking up and often even after LO is sleeping through you still wake regularly until your body realises you don't have to. Do you have her on a baby monitor  ??? I was addicted to mine and only just gave it up around a month ago LOL  ::)

Yes let's hope for a longer than 1 hour nap today. I hope she settles for it okay after a good night. Are you going for 5 hours A time again  ???

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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #233 on: August 21, 2012, 11:30:17 am »
We now have a stair gate on her room and bed guard :D

I put her down at 12 making it a 5hr A but she's still faffing about 30mins later. The only thing I'm worried about is her taking ages to settle for her nap, sleeping 2hrs and then taking another hour to settle at bedtime making it a long day, won't this make her OT?

I guess there's nothing really that i can do apart from put her into bed, tell her it's night night, leave the room (same as i was doing when she was in her cot). and leaving her to settle - hoping she'll start settling sooner?  x
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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #234 on: August 21, 2012, 15:30:21 pm »
Jemma - was she faffing around at 5hrs A before you took the cot sides off ???  If its only started since, then I would hazard a guess its entirely related to the change in sleep environment & if you ride it out for a couple of weeks until she gets used to it she should start to settle better again.  If, after a couple of weeks, she is still taking a while to go down, then it may be she's not tired enough to settle for her nap after 5hrs, & perhaps she needs a slightly longer morning.  I found with my DS that when he got to around 19 months he needed a 6hr A in the morning, followed by a 2hr nap & 5hrs A to BT & he would sleep 11hrs at night.  At 2yrs old we now do 6-6.5hr AM A time / 2-2.5hr nap / 5hr A to BT & get a consistent 10.5hr night with no NW's.

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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #235 on: August 21, 2012, 16:19:59 pm »
Before i tried the 2hr nap and was doing 1.5hr nap, she was doing 6hr A, 1.5hr nap and then 5.5hr A before bed. But then about 2-3 weeks before we took the cot sides off she was doing 5hr A before nap, 2hr nap then 6hr before bed. I think it's just because of the change in the sides coming off. x
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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #236 on: August 21, 2012, 16:30:02 pm »
Honey, I think today it was probably down to the fact that she had such a good night and is better rested. So you may find if her nights continue to get better that her morning A time may need to lengthen and you could go 5.5 and 5.5 again.x.
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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #237 on: August 21, 2012, 17:54:41 pm »
Yeah i could try 2x 5.5 :)

Today she was still playing about at 1.00pm an hour after I'd put her down. I had a midwife appointment for just after 2pm, she fell asleep in the buggy and woke after 30mins (she doesn't nap long in the buggy). So i put her down for bed at 6.30pm - hoping she's asleep soon.

So on days where i don't need to be out the house and she's still faffing after an hour, do i give up on the nap or leave her until she does sleep, even if it means a longer day? I know it's just the change of routine with now having free run of her room as she used to go down great for naps in her cot. x
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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #238 on: August 21, 2012, 18:08:30 pm »
think u will just have to experiment and see what works. If my ds2 naps late i cut it. If he naps at 2pm i'd wake at 3. If he naps at after 3 i'd cut to 45min, and after 4 i'd cut to 30min. My ds usually goes to bed at 8pm thou and a long late nap has him up too late for me. Xx
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Re: Still having NWs at 18 months.
« Reply #239 on: August 21, 2012, 18:28:35 pm »
I guess I'll just have to give her more time to adjust. Bedtime took another 45mins for her to fall asleep, once she's in bed and stays in bed she's asleep within 5mins.

I wouldn't mind if she slept 10.5hr night and had no wake ups/little cry outs as we'd both be getting a decent amount of sleep. I guess it has only been 4 days since she's had the cot sides off and today has been the first day that she hasn't had the blow up mattress and pillows on her floor lol. And apart from todays nap refusal she isn't doing too bad at bedtime. x
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