oh *hug* I understand what you're going through! So far, all three of my DD's have been the same. My most recent DD has been doing the same thing but we haven't broken the routine yet! Good luck with the new rule!
My little one is having 2x 2hour sleeps a day and in bed for the night at 5.30pm. I keep waiting for it to change but it hasn't yet so I am still going with it. I have found with the teething she has a little grizzle to go to sleep at night, but through the day she LOVES bed and goes in there singing and gurgling till sleep comes. I think she likes the space from the 2 older ones!
With the other 2 children I made 2.30 the cut off for falling to sleep for a nap. otherwise I found that they really couldn't settle easily at night. The walk after dinner is a good thing for sure!
Well today she's only had one 40 minute nap. So I have brought our dinner forward by an hour, she's had her bath and DH is doing the walk with her just now. Poor wee sausage looks buggered.
Fingers crossed she goes over ok and isn't too overtired. She's been really good the past 2 nights. Long may it last
FWIW my DS was always tricky with naps at that stage (and even now)... But at around 9 months,he was having 2 or 3 most days, but he never slept for more than 30 mins! Try not to let the confusion get you down, I still have it now at 18 months, I think these precious little things will still have us guessing in ten years time!
Hopefully the fresh air would have done your wee one good. I remember those days (and not too long ago either...) with only one short nap! DS looked so buggered by 6 pm you really felt sorry for him. But hey, if they don't wanna sleep they will suffer! lol. My DS has a brilliant new plan ATM. ONE nap a day but thankfully it's a good 1.5 -2 hour one so he can just last the distance till his 8.30 bed time. They are such cheeky little monkeys
Yeepee!!!! Hope she sleeps all night like a good little girl. I was supposed to go to bed when DS dropped off at 8.45. I'm tired but mind is NOT switching off. Bugger!!
DD has 2 sleeps, going down usually around 10am and then again at 2-2:30pm. She'll sleep anywhere from 40 minutes to 2 hours ... and totally randomly.
The days I need to go out, you can count on it that she will sleep late!
I've read a few books now suggesting afternoon fresh air (walk or outdoor time) helps with sleep of an evening, can't say that's ever worked for us but we've not had a big issue with the evening sleep/putting down to sleep. I've also read not to let bubs sleep too much past 4pm, otherwise it will disrupt the night time sleep.
If Willow is edging near 4pm - if I'm that randomly lucky to have her sleep from 2pm to 4pm - I just go down to her room, open her door up and maybe adjust her blinds to let a little more light in and yep, she wakes soon enough.
Willow goes down of a night anywhere from 7pm to 8pm ... we just wait for her tired signs (rubbing eyes, big yawns and more grizzly then 'usual') and we pop her in the cot, in the sleep bag and put her night light on. Some nights we hear her for a little while, other nights her eyes close and she's out to it straight away.
Teething is the pits, she does seem to wake more frequently prior to an 'eruption'.
It's the naps and how late she has a nap in the day. Yesterday was good, she went down at 6pm and slept.
Today we had a nap (both her and I, I needed a snooze ) at 2.30pm - 4pm. She wasn't tired until 8.30pm. So I think that we just time the naps well, or accept that if she naps later then she goes to bed later.
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