routine tweak or leave alone?

[*Becky*]

M is 31 months. This has been her routine pretty much since September...

A - 6.30-7am
Nap - 1.15/30-2.45/3pm (capped at 1.5 hours)
BT - 7.15/30pm

We had one weird regression around November time when she was waking earlier in the am but we stuck to the timings and got over it and she went back to being an angel 

So the last 3-4 mornings she has woken before 6am, she has a gro-clock and the sun comes up at 7am and apart form the occasional noise/moan she is happy enough to stay in bed, she may even doze, it's hard to know for sure 

So....I am guessing she is heading to 10.5 hour nights again - WWYD?

She goes to sleep at night straight away and she settles for naps usually within 5-10 mins (we sometimes get a nap refusal but not often)

Would you just ride it out for a bit and see what happens or would you cap the nap? Move BT later? I must admit I do like the nap time but it has to go sometime and with H I just slowly capped more and more during the 1-0. Atm I am expecting too much sleep from her anyway as BT is around 7.15pm and she can't get up until 7am and then she also has a 1.5 hour nap - more sleep than when she was 18 months! What do you think?

[*Becky*]

bumping x

we heard her at 5.30am and 6.20am today but i think she must have slept inbetween....yday she did a lot of walking in the am and seemed v tired after her nap. She woke bang on 10 hours last night so maybe bit OT?

[ZacsMumme]

I think Z regressed a bit around this age so I did more NND as he was tough to deal with if his nap was capped too much. This made him more tired on nap days and his overall sleep was more settled. Does she do NND at all?
A few months ago we hit the 1-0 hard though and now the nap is gone

[*Becky*]

yes she can do NND's - never done more than one in a row though. We tend to have a set BT on a NND of 6.30pm as she does not tack too well.

[*Becky*]

also...she has had her nap capped to 1.5 hours since September so she is ok with a capped nap...just not sure how to move on. If she was fighting BT I would do a later one, if she was fighting nap I would push it out and have to cap it but for EWings I am not sure what the best action is? What do you think?

[ZacsMumme]

Our nap was as late as 2 pm before we really hit the 1-0 so with ew and IIWM I'd try pushing the nap later first BT the same. So nap of maybe 2pm cap at 3.30 and BT 7.15/70...

[*Becky*]

she has to be up at 3pm for school pick up? Nap 1.30-3pm with 7.30pm BT? This is pretty much what we have been doing but maybe a 15 min later BT will help??

[ZacsMumme]

Oh yeah I forgot about school run. Damn something for me to look forward too in a few yrs
Would she take a capped 1 hr nap every day and a slightly shorter day? 1.45-2.45 with 7pm BT?

[koe2moe]

I think it sounds good to try 7:30 BT or cap the nap at 1h15.  Try one 3 days and see if it improves.  x

[*Becky*]

ok, will try 7.30pm BT first - thanks!

[*Becky*]

actually thinking about it - it makes my life easier if during the week she is up at 2.45pm so we are not in a huge rush to get H so maybe nap 1.30-2.45pm and then same BT of 7.15pm. How does that sound?
I guess give it 3-5 days to see if nights get a wee bit longer?

[koe2moe]

That sounds like a plan!  After 3 days you will know which way to shift.  Fx

[*Becky*]

oh I don't know now Koe/Sara. She cried for a good while when I woke her today and I wonder if she is coming down with something or what? Not sure what to do now?!

[koe2moe]

Her body clock for the nap is set.  Would you want to cut it more gradually, say by 5 mins?  You might have woken her in deep sleep.  Another way is to put her down 10 mins earlier but would she be likely to refuse to nap?  So tricky.  Fx for bt.

[*Becky*]

I'm back....don;t know what to do with M. She seems really tired atm, we keep getting 5.15/30am wake ups, we usually do get her back to sleep but she is restless. She is def not happy or talking, she seems unhappy. She is tired, at soft play the other day she laid down a few times!

I have been doing 1.15 or 1.30pm nap for 1.5 hours but she is sad to be woken and I don't know, it just does not feel like nap cut time but maybe i am wrong?? UT leading to OT??

She has started doing 1 extra am at pre school so she now does 2 mornings from 9-12pm and she does get tired.

What do you think I should do - pre 6am wakings are not ok for me...