Hi Ladies,
Just looking for some advice please regarding dd's night sleep. Basically before she turned 21 mths she had a solid routine of
wu - 7.20
Nap- 1.50 - 3.20
BT - 7.40
Sttn every night
However, at 21 mths we started getting nap refusals for a while which meant later and shorter naps but we were still getting 11.5 hrs overnight sleep and no nw's, so I pushed the nap later and cut to 1hr 15 min.
about 3/4 mths ago we discovered that a 1 hr nap was giving us a long nw every 2nd night so with advice and encouragement from Jessmum on this site we decided to start dropping the nap.
Everything went fantastic for a week or so. We were getting 12.5/13.5 night sleep with nnds and only offering a nap every 3rd day or if really necessary for about 20 min.
after the initial 1st week or so we have only been getting 11.5 hrs overnight sleep even on a nnd. We weren't offering the nap until 3 pm and only for 20 min Then bt would be 7pm no nap day and 7.30 Nap day. All naps have to be a apop'd in the car or we would never ever get one otherwise.
We have now started getting far longer stretches of nnds sometimes even 5/6 days in a row but that's because I haven't been offering them and she has coped extremely well during the day without them. The only problem is that 7.00 pm Bt wasn't working great for us as we could never manage to be ready at that time so I set BT for 7.30 pm regardless.
My biggest concern is that since the initial 1st week or so of nap dropping we can only manage an 11.5/ 11hr 15 min night with or without a nap. This has meant a WU of 6.50/7.00 am now which means on several occassions she's falling asleep in car after I collect her from creche around 2/2.30 pm, she has even napped as early as 1.30 pm on w'ends for DH
which makes nnds harder to achieve!
Basically since cutting /dropping the nap we are getting roughly 30 min less over night sleep than ever before!
Any ideas or suggestions how I can get her up to 12 hrs please and try to encourage consistant nnds? Before any 1-0 shananigans her WU time was always 7.20/7.30 am from she was a baby.
Thanks in advance.