sudden drop to one sleep..

[Tish]

anyone else had a catnapper who dropped to one and slept better?? needing reassurance here!!

Yes, me! DS has/had always been a shocking sleeper, and when transistioning to 1 day sleep did have some horrible days where he'd only slept 30-40mins the whole day. Yuck yuck yuck.

He's now 16 months (dropped to 1 day sleep around 12 months), and some days I feel like my baby has been abducted by aliens and replaced by one that will sleep As I type he has been asleep for 1.25 hours and counting, no resettling, no waking - bliss. He's so much happier these days.

For us the key was putting him down a little later than he seemed to need it bit by bit so he was going down around 11amish. His sleeps have just stretched out naturally. Sometimes I can resettle him though - occasionally he'll fall asleep randomly on the floor as I change him after having woken, and sleep for another hour LOL

So hang in there, it most likely will get better as he gets older *hugs* With us it did take longer than a week as some others have posted, but really worth the wait.....

Tish
xx

[Tish]

Oh and another thing that I think helped was topping him up on snacks until about 30 mins before he went down so he wouldn't stir and feel hungry. We have lunch when he wakes up at 1 or so.

[Jellyfish]

We seem to be going through a phase where DD (12mo in 5 days) will have 2 naps some days and 1 nap on others. The one nap is usually at 11am and lasts 2-3hrs, the two naps are morning and afternoon for an hour/hour and a half each. I am finding it really hard to know which way she wants it each day because night sleeps seem to be the same (8pm to 7:30am with one or two feeds).

Today, I have been trying to get her down for a nap since 9:30am because she seemed tired but she has only just gone down 20mins ago... I think today will be one nap but for how long is anyone's guess!