WWYD? 19mo DS is saying "I sleep, I sleep" at 11am today, set nap is at 12... I've been sticking to set nap at 12, set BT at 7:30 for nearly 2 weeks consistently now and his night wakings are decreasing and the first one is getting later... 2:20am last night
That shouldn't be so exciting but he's been waking multiple times from 10/10:30 for a while now. I must admit yesterday he wanted PD for nap at 11:15 so I did and he slept 2.5hr and was fine til BT at 7:30 and did sleep a better stretch than he has for a while.
I have just put him down for his nap, he's begging for sleep and it feels so wrong to keep him up when he's clearly so tired
I just want him to be able to sleep well at night again and be the well rested, happy boy I know. He's fine within himself but his nights have been shorter and his naps are really long (3hr is the norm now) but I cannot bring myself to cap the nap in the hopes of fixing the night as any little bit of extra OT at the moment yields weeks of night terrors which happen during his naps as well
His day looks pretty much like this at the moment:
5:15 - habitual wake (DH starts the car to go to work at this hour) - half the time will go back to sleep til 6:30, and occasionally til 7/7:30 at which point I have to wake him most days to get to work; the other half of the time, he'll lie quietly happily chatting with his dummies til 6:30/7 (6 if he knows DH is home in the morning)
12 - nap (usually now til 3/3:15 - more often 2:40 at daycare 3 days per week)
7:30 - BT, settles fine then wakes several times fairly evenly spaced through the night though wakings during REM sleep are harder to resettle as often it seems like a bad dream as he wakes screaming 'Mummy' or 'Daddy' and he's clinging to me/DH - whoever he asks for has to go as the other just won't do.
SA is pretty massive at the moment, we're doing all the 'right' things but its been hanging around quite a while. It does get worse whenever someone exits his life - like my brother who was visiting and has just left on the plane 2 days ago. He still asks for him several times a day, particularly at BT as he wants to say good night to him and at WU when he wants to go and play.
So, do I stick with set nap/BT as best I can and PD early if he asks? Do I stand on my head to keep him awake til set nap time, which BTW, feels really wrong? I'm not just reading/misreading cues here, he's telling me clearly with words that he wants to sleep (which for a spirited who struggled so much with sleep initially is amazing) I ask if he can stay awake 1/2 an hour and eat some lunch and he says 'no, I sleep'. How much notice to I pay to A times? What's the max he should be doing?
