Please tell me having only one sleep today was a one off!

DD is only just 7 months and I've been having trouble recently getting her to sleep (for most sleeps, day and night). It can take her up to an hour to eventually fall asleep. I don't let her cry herself to sleep, but at the same time I can't be in the room with her the whole time as I'm too much of a distraction for her, so if she isn't crying I leave the room and let her be. Yesterday afternoon after an hour of her mucking around in her cot (blowing raspberries and yakking away) she finally fell asleep at 4pm, I prefer her not to sleep past 4pm as it kind of stuffs up our night time routine then, but hey I wasn't going to wake her up when she'd only just gone to sleep!

This afternoon same thing, only this time she didn't fall asleep..nothing I did worked and eventually I got her out of bed, she was perfectly happy, giggling and squirming away like she'd only just woken up. Gave her a bottle hoping she might fall asleep during that but nope..I put her back to bed at 6pm and she is out like a light now, but that was 6 hours of awake time as she woke up from her morning sleep at 12 :o

I am really really not ready for her to be dropping back to one day sleep, I don't think she is old enough to only be having one sleep during the day, and I must admit I love it when she is asleep as it's my 'me' time, a bit selfish but I'll enjoy it while I can. And I don't think it is healthy for her to be going 6 hours straight without sleep!

night sleeps are pretty good, if she doesn't sleep through the night she'll wake at either 1am or 4/5am for a feed and go back to sleep, although it has started taking longer and longer to get her back to sleep at night (last night she woke at 1am and didn't go back to sleep until 2).
Sorry for the mammoth post...could this be due to teething/wonder week? She hasn't had any teeth come through yet and I can't see/feel anything either.

i think shes too young for one sleep,it may be developmental, is she close to crawling?? or it may just be a phase! keep persisting with two sleeps! DD2 at that age was still having 4 sleeps!

amen to nap times being 'me' time! i always feel selfish when i say or think it, but it's so true. i love my time with DS & it's lots of fun, but sometimes it is nice to have a moment to yourself & just recharge!

i reckon it might just be a little phase - i'd say she probably still needs more than 1 nap - we're still on 2 or 3 here, i think he's slowly making the transition to 2 only but i'm not really sure how to move around the times to make it easier, iykwim? are you putting hayley down at set times or when she's showing tired signs?

it could be developmental as well - she's almost crawling, isn't she? if corey is even a little bit awake at nap time or bed time, he rolls over & is up on all 4's. he thinks it's hilarious to crawl all over the bed & over me. before he was crawling he always wanted to practice being on all 4's & rocking.

sorry - i'm not much help! if only to say - i have the same problem. my only weapon is to keep feeding him till he falls asleep!! i get annoyed but they're so cute & funny it's impossible to be annoyed at them!t

Thanks ladies.

Olive she has been getting up on her knees and rocking for about a month now. I keep saying she'll be crawling in no time (but she's starting to make me feel like a liar :lol: ). So it could be a developmental stage.

Sloane- she usually goes to bed at about 10.30am and for her afternoon nap between 2pm and 3pm. They aren't set in stone, but that's sort of how our day works out as she wakes usually between 7 & 8am. She will be tired before I put her to bed, but then it's like just being in her cot is enough to recharge her and she'll happily roll around or bounce off the sides of her cot for up to an hour.
I try and leave her in there until she goes to sleep, or until she has been in there over an hour as I don't want her to think that if she seems happy in her cot it means she can come out even though it is supposed to be sleep time.

She must have been tired last night though, she slept from 6pm to 4am and then from 5am until nearly 8.30am (although she may have been awake at 8am and I kind of dozed in my bed until she started getting louder at 8.30! Lol)

Hopefully it is just a stage honey. I know Ash's sleep became a nightmare in the lead up to him starting to crawl, and it took a week or two after he worked it out for him to start sleeping a bit better.

He's still having 3 sleeps a day most of the time, but they are quite short. He's usually up at 6am (your 8am sounds divine!) and then goes back down at about 8.30am, but will only sleep for 30mins. Then he's up till about 12pm when he might sleep for close to 1.5 hours. Then he usually has another 30 min nap at around 3.30pm or 4pm. I would love to get him down to two decent naps a day, but he gets really tired quite quickly first thing in the morning.

Sorry I'm going off on a bit of a tangent here, but I can't believe how their body clocks work. Ash wakes up at 6am every morning without fail. It doesn't matter what time he got bed, or if he's woken up for a feed overnight, and it's still dark out now so it can't be the sun coming up either... :wall: