We are just back from holiday and had a great time. The girls had quite a good holiday schedule - up at 6 (which was 5 UK time!), nap 10-11, nap 2:30-4 and bed at 8. Put them to bed at 6:30 last night as had had hardly any naps (flying home) and C woke at 1 and at 4:30, z at 3 and 4.....but both up for the day at 5. Just down for first nap now. Although last night wasn't brilliant I think their night wakings are slowly getting a bit better. The EMW is still a massive problem though....
I start work tomorrow and have told the childminder first nap not before 9 and not longer than an hour, and second nap 1:15 and up by 3. I will pick them up at 6 and get them in bed by 7. We will have to see how that goes for a bit - she has some older kids to look after too so there might be a limit to how much I can demand from nap tweaking! She has an assistant to do the school run though so we don't have that stress. Assuming that all goes ok, where should I go with the EMW? Is it possible that they only need 10h at night?!? If they sleep well in those 10h they don't seem tired in the morning, and with C particularly it is usually v obvious if she is tired! And this morning they played in their cots until 6:15 before I had to get them up. Had to do a bit of shh pat at about half 5 but even with that they didn't sleep.