Sleep Help!

I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong, I wonder should you postpone his lunch nap to 1 so that he’s more tired and I would maybe try waking him at 230? My daughter sleeps between 1 and 1.45hrs at lunch and I find if she sleeps longer it’s harder to go to sleep at night. I have also found recently that my daughter no longer wants a nap at 1150/12 but seems happier to wait a little while xx

Thank you for the feedback! I can't do a later nap, but we could wake up earlier. I think we'll try that and maybe a slightly shorter nap and more outside time at 4:30 when I get off work.

Our son gets up around 630 - 7 and his nap isn’t until 1. His school puts him down around the same time too so 1 seems like the benchmark with lunch at noon.

We put our son to bed around 8 but lately (just the last week) he’s been fighting it and lays in the crib playing for at least a half hour before dozing off so maybe it’s a growth thing. I don’t know but he entertains himself until he falls asleep so we don’t bother him, we just let him get his energy out while in bed until he puts himself to sleep. You’re not alone on that.

The issue with a 12 o’clock nap time is that his wake window is not long enough if he’s waking up at seven. Also, they say that babies aren’t like us with their sleeping patterns so waking him up earlier may not give you the results you want with an earlier nap time. Just like putting him to bed later won’t make him sleep later. Good luck!!!

My daughter is 22mo old and she is very low sleep needs. I was fighting her every nap and every bedtime for a long time. I started shortening her nap to about an hour/hour and 15 and it has helped a lot. She has a 4.5-5hr wake window in the morning and then needs about a 7hr wake window before bed. It causes her to go to bed a little later, but there's not a battle anymore.....for the most part lol

I’d allow for 6 hours prior to nap

We do wake 7
Nap 1-3 (asleep by 1)
Bed 8:45 (asleep by). Lot of kids still do. Good with 8:30 bed. I just have low sleep needs kid

My son wakes up at 7:30, naps at 12/12:30, but there have been times he would ask me to nap at 11:30. He naps for two or two and a half hours and go to bed at 9, falls asleep at 9:30pm.
That’s what has worked for us

Something I let my daughter do right before bed we call it "pillow smash." Sometimes she has an excess burst of energy right before bed so I let her run back and forth in her room and flop onto an adult sized fluffy pillow a couple of times to get her energy out. She loves it and thinks its hilarious. Then she's tired herself out and usually falls asleep within 10 min of being put in the crib.

Schedule wise:
7am wake up. Breakfast.
Lunch at 11:30
1-2:45 nap
3:30 snack
6:30 dinner
7:30 tub, songs, reading, pillow smash
8pm in crib

@Carolyn I was going to suggest a short nap as well. This has been such a battle with my little dude. He can only have 1.5 hour nap at most or he's up til 9 or even 10

"pillow smash" is such a great pre bed time activity! It's really important for proprioceptive development!