My DS is 18 months and is usually down for somewhere between 10 and 11 hours, sometime less, but I do my best to get a minimum of 10 hours. He only naps for 1.5 hours during the day at most, but seems to get by on around 12 hours sleep a day... I think they're all different and just need different amounts of sleep. As long as she's happy I wouldn't worry. I have found that it doesn't make any difference what time DS goes to bed he still wakes up at the same time (usually around 5am, 6am on a good day). HTH
My two year old goes down around 9pm. Can sometimes be as early as 8pm, but not generally before 8:30.
He sleeps until at least 7am. Frequently as late as 8am, but we generally wake him then if he hasn't already. He seems to love his sleep - around 11 hours per night plus a 2-3 hour nap during the day.
My 4yo is never in bed before 8 these days. Sometimes she doesn't fall asleep until after 9! But she's in bed by 8:30 usually, and without a day sleep she'll generally fall asleep fairly quickly. She wakes anytime after 6:30, though it is usually closer to 7 or 7:30. So she gets around 10/11 hours' sleep in 24.
My 19mo is all over the joint. She usually goes to bed between 7:30 and 8pm, however some nights she is still awake at 9 also. (But tends to just entertain herself, although sometimes she does cry out for a cuddle and a song.) For the last several months she has woken at 7 on the dot regardless of what time she went to sleep, unless she's had an unsettled night where she's woken multiple times, in which case she sleeps in. A couple of times she's woken at 5:30 or 6 and she is trashed for the whole morning. Not fun. She has a 1.5 - 3 hour nap during the day (2 hours is the average, really), so we're looking at 11 hours 'bed' time overnight plus 2 in the day.
Gosh, it looks a lot better than it feels in practice, LOL! When they don't get into bed before 8 it just feels late, but I suppose it all works out ok!
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