Matilda has always struggled with sleeping, but I always persisted. In early July she would sleep for a long morning nap and have a really short arvo one (she was 13 months). Gradually there would be times she didn't sleep in the arvo at all but laid in her cot for an hour chatting. She was tired and showing tired signs, but wouldn't sleep. We went to a sleep school in the end of July (mainly for night sleeps) and while she was there she went crazy with her day sleeps, refusing to sleep at all with hours of everyone trying to settle her. Finally the nurses said "Let's try one sleep a day" They told me it was far too early but we would try. Around 10am she would get really grizzly having missed her normal nap time, so I would take her for a walk or try to preoccupy her until 11am when I would feed her an early lunch and put her to bed. She did really well.
From that one day on we have had a few days on/off where we settle her for two sleeps, depending on her night etc, but sometimes when she's been sick she's needed two.
Otherwise I keep her up and have lunch around 11.30-12 and then read a book & to bed for her nap. Her usual sleep time is 2-3 hours and she sleeps really well now. Maybe one day of struggles with daytime sleeps, where as for the first 3 weeks of July I would have 6 days of struggling with her to get her to sleep.
SOOOOO to make an epic post even longer LOL
At what age?She dropped to 1 sleep at 14months
What were the signs?The signs were that she wasn't sleeping during one of her sleeps just complaining through the whole thing.
Did you initiate this or did your baby?She initiated dropping a sleep, but I had to initiate waiting until later in the day for the sleep (otherwise she would go to bed at 4pm!)
What time of the day did thay have their big sleep & how was the transition?She has her big sleep around 12-12.30. And after a week of transition time (grizzles) she has done really well, much better than ever before with day time sleeps.
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