I was hoping that someone could give me some advice for my 10 month old's naps.
Over the past couple of months, he has been napping really well - taking 2 naps which would last anything from 1 to 1/2 hours and he would be fantastic, but now everything has changed, and he is only taking 2 30 minute naps and is being a real grumpy so and so and I am not sure what to do.
His typical schedule looks something like this.
6:45 / 7:00 Wake Up
7:30 Bottle and Cereal
8:45 / 9:00 - Goes down for nap
10:15 / 10:30 - Awake and Snack
11:30 - Lunch
12:15 / 12:30 - Nap
1:30 / 1:45 Wake up
2:30 - Snack
4:30 - Dinner
5:30 - Bath
6:15 / 6:45 - anytime between then bottle then bed and sleeps right through the night - no problems there.
The problem now is that he will be tired and will put him down, but will only sleep for about 30 minutes. It was suggested that perhaps it was time that he only went down to one nap a day, and I thought that this might be the case and I though about trying it today, but it did not work.
At 10:00 when he was having his toast as a snack, he was kicking off and screaming while sitting in his high chair. I took him up to bed and he slept for 30 minutes. He woke up and cried, I went in and he was wide awake sitting in his cot and started smiling and saying Hiya, and pulled himself up in the cot.
The same happened at 1:45 this afternoon, where he fell asleep in the car and only slept for 30 minutes. Again he woke up spat his dummy out and just said hiya and was wide awake.
He does sleep through the night, but have found that since his naps have gone AWOL I am finding it more difficult for him to settle in the evenings. When I put him to bed he will fall asleep immediately, but that usually lasts about 40 minutes or so then he will roll over and bang his leg brace on the side of the cot and this tends to wake him up and then he cries etc, and then it starts over again trying to re-settle him.
The brace that he has on his leg is to correct his club foot which he was born with. This does not bother him as he has had casts / brace on his leg since he was a week old.
I know that some of this could be due to teething, but surely it would not effect his naps this badly.
I don't think he is going through a growth spurt or anything like that so am not sure what is going on.
I am also finding that his lack of naps is affecting his eating. When he is tired, I do battle to get his food in him - he is just not interested in eating - although I do still get a good amount in him. Funnily enough His bottles are not a problem (which is strange as he has never been very fussy on his bottles), he will drain these no problem.
Please could someone give me some advice.
Thanks for your time.
