Nap help!

Since about May time it’s been taking my daughter a good hour to fall asleep of an evening. I think I need to tweak something but I don’t know what?!

Her day looks like:
6:30-7am - wake up
12:30-1pm - nap for 1.5 hours absolute tops
7-7:30pm - I put her in her cot and then she falls asleep between 8-8:30pm (which I think is too late?!)

I tried cutting her nap to 1 hour, earlier bedtime, later bedtime (this just resorted her falling asleep about 9pm!) and nothing seems to work.

She’s more than happy in her cot chatting away to herself and then eventually falling asleep. But I feel like she should be falling asleep within about 20 mins not nearly an hour?! Or is this normal and it just takes her forever to fall asleep?!

Any tips at all please?

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My little girl is the same.. up between 6:45/7:15, nap roughly 12:30-2:30 and in her cot for 8 but sometimes not asleep until 8:45 x

We are exactly the same . It takes an hour . But now at least she is sleeping though again so I take it 😁

If she doesn’t wake up until around 2.30, 7/7.30 could be quite early? Probably not tired enough If my little one wakes at 2.30 I put him in bed around 8ish to be asleep around 8.15/8.30 x

this is true actually! I might try putting her in bed for 8pm tonight and see how long it takes her to go off. I did try putting her down later a few months ago and it just resorted to her taking an hour to go to sleep still but at a later time so she went off finally about 9ish! 🥲😬 I’ll try tonight and hope for the best 😂🤞🏼x

second that. Sometimes if she goes to bed at around 8 she falls asleep faster then whit a 7:30 bedtime

It’s Worth a try and see how it goes. My little one usually wakes at 2.30 so we do 8 bedtime there’s no way he’d be tired at 7ish but if he has a short nap he goes earlier 😊nothing is simple lol! X

thank you both I’ll try this tonight and keep you posted! She definitely goes a good 6 hours between sleep usually so makes sense for her to be asleep by 8:30pm! Thank you ♥️

how did you get on? X

I think it worked! She asked to go to bed I think the heat has tired her out 😂 put her in bed for 7:45 and she was sound asleep by 8:10 so a vast improvement on taking an hour to go to sleep! Will try again tonight! X

we put mine to bed at 8 last night and she was asleep at 8:20. So it seems to be a good way to go !

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