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Natty is rarely asleep before 8 these days, which is ok except that she keeps waking up so darn early!!! She's getting up around 6am. And she doesn't have a day sleep.
It doesn't seem like enough! She will occasionally have a good sleep like a catch-up and either falls asleep early or wakes up a little later.
What does your 3-4yo do? Are any of them still having day sleeps? What time do they go to bed & wake up?
DS1 will be 4 in Feb. He goes to bed around 8 and is also up at 6 most days. He has day sleeps at daycare but rarely at home. Sometimes he does if it has been a big day or he hasn't slept too well the night before then he will have a day sleep.
It doesn't bother me unless he is getting really cranky, then I try to get him to sit quietly and rest for a bit. It usually calms him down enough to be pleasant until bed time.
Are you having trouble with your DD in the late arv/ evenings? If she seems happy until bed time then I wouldn't worry. 10 hours a night, plus the occasional catch up sleep isn't too bad.
Izzy is 3.5 and goes to bed around 7:30 although some days it is a bit earlier or later depending but we try for earlier than later. J goes down at 7 so she goes down not long after, after she has had a story and teeth etc.
She still has a day sleep too most days but has to sleep in our bed and I have to lie down with her for her to fall asleep. :o She will sleep for around 1 1/2 hours, not so bad on the days I am tired and feel like a nap though! :rofl:
J has been waking at 6-6:30 which I hate, but he will come into our bed and play on my phone for a bit while I doze, and I think he wakes up Izzy because she would probably sleep closer to 7 without his nattering away.
Sounds pretty similar to what we have. DS turned 3 in September. We don't even bother trying to get him to bed before 8pm, it just doesn't work. He goes in there at 8 and has stories until around 8.30pm. He usually wakes around 6am. He stopped having day naps at the start of the year.
I was hoping that starting Kindergarten would make him sleep a bit more but instead he is just cranky all the time lol.
Thanks girls for the fast feedback.
It seems it's not too way out then.
She sometimes gets REALLY silly. Like just totally mental. Particularly after the bath when she's running around like a mad nude woman. LOL! No big deal though. Also she doesn't do as well when we are out when she's tired. She's always much more happy and chilled if she's well rested. I guess that's what prompted my inquiry!:
Are you having trouble with your DD in the late arv/ evenings?
DD2 is the same. Technically (by the ridiculous shenanigans) she should be in bed by 6.30 but 7-7.30 is bedtime (I can't really make it any earlier) and she is up about 7-7.30.
Sometimes 8-9am wakeup, but only if she has spent hours jumping on her bed acting like a hooligan the night before.
Ahhh, see I could cope with the ridiculous shenanigans if she then slept for 12+ hours!!! I'd laugh it off then rub my hands together thinking of the break I'd get, LOL!
till 10pm? It does my head in!
DD1 goes to bed at 730 every night, tired or not.
no day sleeps and sleeps anywhere till 730-9am
DD1 will be 4 in May - she goes to bed between 7:30 - 8.00pm and usually sleeps until 7.00 - 7.30. She does still have a day sleep, straight after lunch (around 12.30 - 1.00) and will sleep as long as I let her but I wake her after an hour and 15 mins or she won't sleep until 10pm. Today I fell asleep myself and all my kids slept for 3.5 hours because I didn't wake up to wake them - none of them are going to sleep tonight so we are going out to watch a soccer game since they won't sleep anyway.
Day sleeps are great but also problematic at the same time. DD1 starts kindy next year for 5 days a fortnight and she won't get a day sleep but if I don't let her have one, she will fall asleep around 5 (especially if we have to go somewhere in the car) and then won't sleep later, even if I only let her sleep for 15 mins. There are days that she doesn't sleep during nap time - she reads on her bed instead - but I have to be really careful with her for the rest of the afternoon and rearrange the whole afternoon to make sure that she is constantly stimulated and we have an early dinner so she can be in bed by 7pm. On days like today when she sleeps too long during the day, we try and go somewhere in the evening and use up some energy because it beats fighting them to sleep when none of them are tired.
DS was 4 in Sept. He hasn't day slept in years :) He goes to bed at 7:30 and is usually asleep withink minutes.
If he is at daycare, he has a sleep, then won't go to sleep till about 9:30, but he lies quietly in his room
When Pip has a day sleep, he's in bed at 8pmish. Most of the time we can't get him to sleep (but we do "quiet time" from about 3-5pm where he watches teev in a darkened room) and he is in bed at around 7pm. Unfortunately he's still bouncing around until about 7:30 if we let him. And he's waking up around 6:30 - 7:30 which isn't so good, cause he used to wake up around 8:30 - 9:30, and he's really feeling the effects of that need for sleep. About once or twice a week he wakes up around 9am-ish when he's really exhausted.
We are finding that he's waking more and having more broken nights when he's overtired. Vicious circle indeed.
DD is 4 and goes to bed at 7pm everynight, no day sleeps and stays in bed until her clock changes to 7am, she is usually woken but DD1 between 6-6.30, but can sleeps til 7am
Sorry to hijack for a sec hun, Olive - does DD have a normal clock that you have taught her to read or is it a special one?
My 4 year old goes to bed at 7-7:30
My almost 3 year old goes to bed at 6:30
DD1 has just turned 5 and it is technically lights out at 8pm, but she doesn't go to sleep until closer to 8.30. She wakes anywhere from 6.15 to 7.30am. DD2 is almost 3 and has just dropped her day sleep :( she is now very ready for bed by 8pm and her wake up time is the same as DD1. DD3 is 16 months and goes down around 8.45 and is up around 6/6.30 :wall:
LOL! Didn't catch that part. I read your post as she went to bed at 7-7:30 then slept til 7ish, 8-9ish on occasions. Nope, if she was still bouncing around me at 10pm she'd be putting herself to bed as I'd already be asleep :):
till 10pm? It does my head in!
Gees, what's your secret? My friend's kid is like this too. She goes to bed at 7 even if she's had a day sleep! :o:
DD1 goes to bed at 730 every night, tired or not.
no day sleeps and sleeps anywhere till 730-9am
Olive, I like the clock idea too...
tan she has a nromal alarm clock with a bigger display, to start with we blocked off the minute numbers and told her she could get up when she sees the number 7, but recently we uncovered the whole display so she can read it all, works reallllllllly well!