Hi
Colby couldn't cope with a 1.5-2hr nap every day and do a decent night. Three days a week (Mon, We'd, Sat) when I do my playgroup and the boys have swimming lessons he has a no nap day. The other 4 days he has a nap around 1pm for 1.5hr, often 2hrs if I am lazy to wake him or Cadan and I are caught up doing something. He goes to bed at 7pm and is pretty much straight out on no nap days but on days he has napped he doesn't fall asleep until 7.45 or 8pm. That probably sounds mean but I have to put the boys to bed together at 7 or Cadan won't get to bed early enough. He just lays in bed and calls me back for water or to be tucked in again a few times normally. He never gets upset because he is UT, just takes longer to fall asleep.
Colby loves his naps and I always wake him or he would sleep at least 2hr15. The other day when I suspected he was sick he slept 3.5hrs before waking of his own accord. Luckily he had put himself to bed at 11.45am while playing in his room and still went to bed at his usual time. He never did get any other symptoms apart from seeming really quiet and sitting about though.
Colby almost always sleeps to 7.10am when our sun on the Groclock comes up, 6.45am at the earliest but that is rare.
Cadan was on a 30 min nap most days by 2.5yo with the other days being NNDs. These naps were either in the car, buggy or occasionally a late one on the sofa. He gave up napping in his bed when we moved him to a BBB at 27mo and I didn't have the time to fight the nap resistance with a 7mo Colby to care for as well. I tried for a week to spend between 1hr and 3hrs doing GW every day but not once did he nap so I gave up. The GW worked a treat for BT but that was mostly DH doing it.
Do you have any way to get M to take a catnap in the buggy or car etc.? Mine were always happier when they woke if it was a CN on the move that they woke from of their own accord (sometimes with some strategic noise to stir them
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Do you think either of these approaches might work for M?
