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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2007, 20:47:16 pm »
Hi Mari

On weekdays at the dayhome he is now napping over lunch time for appoximately 1.5 hours.

Ever since he went to the day home full time (at 1 year), he naps once a day there and twice a day on weekends. Our dayhome mom used to try and get him to do 2 naps and he refused, even when he was a zombie. Other friends have noticed the same, that their kids won't nap twice during the week and then they play catchup on the weekend.

Some times on the weekend he'll nap only once but its only if we've got him out swimming or something and keep him up on purpose. I've tried keeping him up for just one pm nap at home and it doesn't work, he just gets too tired.

Oh, and even with 2 naps he's up at 5:15ish..... ???
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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2007, 21:01:03 pm »
What time to daycare put him down?
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« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2007, 21:03:17 pm »
I think Thurs/Fri he went down around 10:30 but thats approximate. I know on the weekend he didn't last longer than that. I haven't checked in today to see whats happening...
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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2007, 21:29:47 pm »
Yes, that is a definite possibility. problem is I doubt he'll catnap there in the afternoon as he loves playing with the other boy too much. I can ask the dayhome mom if she'd try and see what happens..... There's no time to catnap once I pick him up either.
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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2007, 21:37:02 pm »
How do you collect him?  Mine will sleep in the car if really tired, in fact I avoid a late car journey for this very reason.  (Alex has Discos in her cot at bedtime if she isn't tired enough!)

I would either try to give a very short catnap earlier than 10.30 for about 30mins or, if the nap is longer than 30mins, then a very short nap of 30 mins around 3-4pm, just to top up and relieve the overtiredness.  If you can get throught the overtiredness then hopefully the early wakings would get sorted, then if you can encourage a wakeup of 7amish, you can hopefully give him a nap around 12ish for a couple of hours, enough to see him through 'til bedtime.
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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2007, 21:37:37 pm »
I'll definitely talk with her about this. I would imagine we can do it at home but I've no clue if he'll go for it with the other kids around. He's rather opinionated about stuff like that  ;D
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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2007, 21:39:24 pm »
Does the daycare have an area away from the other children where they sleep?  If not, perhaps you could discuss this with her.
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« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2007, 22:08:06 pm »
Yup, each child gets their own room in fact, but that wasn't sufficient to get Nate to do his morning nap. There are only a few kids there during the day.
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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #23 on: March 06, 2007, 01:20:28 am »
well he napped from 11:30 till 1pm today and played hard all day. but he looked tired by dinner time, so he's just getting into his crib now at 6:30, we'll see how it goes. we spoke with his dayhome mom about trying 2 naps a day for a bit...I'm afraid I'm pessimistic over the chances of him actually doing it but fingers crossed!!!   :-\
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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #24 on: March 06, 2007, 17:26:58 pm »
Nate woke at 3:30 am with a soaking wet diaper. Hubby changed him and put him back to bed. He was awake for a bit and went off to sleep on his own, and slept till 7:15. So I'm thinking that MAYBE this idea of a 'dream diaper change' has some real merit, because he ends up sleeping for approximately 11 total hours instead of 10, has a later wakeup and then is better having an afternoon nap.......

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« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2007, 22:16:05 pm »
I've thought of that, and we've reduced the amount in his bottle to 3-4 oz, but I don't think we can eliminate it yet. He DEMANDS his bottle the second he's out of the tub...... :o
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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #26 on: March 06, 2007, 22:21:56 pm »
Alex has a bath and then milk and story, then we go upstairs and do teeth and another nappy change, just before I put her down in her cot, it's part of the bedtime routine.  Nathan does wee and teeth and Alex does nappy and teeth!  At least her nappy is dry when she lays down.
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« Reply #27 on: March 06, 2007, 22:43:55 pm »
Hmmm....things to think about. I hadn't thought about doing bath/bottle and then having some play and then bed. Bathtime was always a way to wind him down.....

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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #28 on: March 09, 2007, 18:03:23 pm »
One night he did sleep the whole time and slept in 30 mins longer than usual so we had thought we were getting somewhere...but we are no further ahead at the end of the week because for the last few nights he's woken up during the night and then slept in long enough that he's had at least 11 hours of sleep. So the morning cat nap wasn't possible. One wake up was short, the last two have been longer. I can't tell the cause other than really heavy diaper but then why has he stayed awake? One night it seemed that it was his congestion due to his cold but last night?

Ah well, we're starting to realize we may not be able to do much about this but will keep trying when possible to find the right button to push.

thanks for everyone's thoughts!
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Re: 15 month old waking issues
« Reply #29 on: March 12, 2007, 20:30:55 pm »
How are things going?
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