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We dropped the nap, now night waking
« on: May 29, 2018, 09:44:46 am »
So Austin was taking hours to go to sleep at night. We cut the nap down to 45 mins but we were still getting some 9.30/10pm drop offs at night and the most amount of ridiculous call backs. So we dropped it. It went well, he coped well and was asleep by 7pm. He would some times sleep til 7am. Sometimes between 6 and 7 which has always been normal for him. We have also had some night wakings. I'd say every other night probably. He wakes for a wee and then can't settle afterwards. Is this overtired? Should I just push through?
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2018, 10:44:48 am »
Id definitely push through and just go with 30 mins earlier to bed for a couple of days x
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2018, 11:48:00 am »
Thanks Zoe, sometimes it's hard to know if you are breaking them or not!! And the night wakings are breaking me a little! Hopefully won't last long.
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2018, 13:57:04 pm »
I feel your pain we’re nap dropping joy by my choice and potty training day 3....I’m climbing he walls lol!

Fingers crossed your LO adjusts soon mine has to the no naps just the potty lol x
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2018, 17:39:57 pm »
We were the opposite, potty trained no probs at 22 months. Sleep for his whole life has certainly not been as easy 😂. On the surface he is coping well with no nap, he is his usual self all day, but the nw's are probably saying otherwise!
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2018, 17:58:47 pm »
It’s a case of managing the OT with this last nap transition but getting some is inevitable x
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2018, 18:14:09 pm »
Unavoidable I suppose. Thanks for the support. He had a 15 min car nap at 3.30 today and had been in bed for 15 mins and no sleep yet. Must avoid car naps then in future!
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2018, 18:31:16 pm »
Oh dear....hopefully he goes off soon.
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2018, 18:40:53 pm »
Hi, we are still pushing on but the night wakings are continuing and now we have bed time antics too. He was having a 10/ 15 min nap in the car every day this week until 3pm (picking ds1 up from holiday club) so I thought maybe that was the problem. Today is Saturday so no club and no car nap yet he is worse than ever. 25 mins he's been messing about now. I just don't know what do to! This is the reason we dropped the lap in the first place. For a a week or so he was dropping straight off but now back to the old ways.
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2018, 18:18:52 pm »
How long is the day before you put to bed?
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2018, 18:21:21 pm »
12 hours usually. Because of our working it is hard to get him down any earlier. So if he wakes around half 6 then his day is probably 12.5 hours. Its too long I know. That's why I thought the micro nap might help. Maybe I should try it a bit longer.
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2018, 18:24:12 pm »
Sometimes we do a 10 min car nap just to get us to 7pm BT is wake up was 6.15/6.30 x
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2018, 19:26:41 pm »
He has had 10/15 mini nap most of the week and was messing around til nearly 8 after a 7pm bedtime. So stopped it the last 2 days. Yesterday was 8pm again  but today was 7.10 after a pd at 6.50.
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2018, 20:05:35 pm »
Hope the night is good for u x
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Re: We dropped the nap, now night waking
« Reply #14 on: June 03, 2018, 20:45:23 pm »
Thanks, fingers crossed.
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