Sleep advice!

What time are your two year olds (24m) waking up, napping, and going to bed? My daughter's sleep schedule has been all over the place since we moved, and I'm not sure how to fix it. I really hate to wake her up before she's gotten her full 10hrs that she normally sleeps. I've tried skipping her nap entirely, so she'll go to bed earlier, but she'll wake up after 3-4hrs saying she's hungry and wanting to play. I'm guessing the only solution is to wake her before she wakes on her own in the morning, but I still don't know if she should be napping less or what. Help, please!

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Gets up at 7 or 7:30am, nap from 1pm to 4pm(assuming he takes a full nap), then bed time is at 8:30pm. Kids that are exhausted and tired sleep less and have a harder time staying asleep. I can take my son hiking and we hike for an hour so presumably he would be so tired and ready for his nap right!? Nope! Those days he barely takes a two hour nap. It’s so weird.

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My guy is a pretty good sleeper. Wakes between 7-7:30am. Naps from 1pm-4pm, bed around 8-8:30pm. Says he is at daycare (three days a week) he doesn’t nap nearly as long (or sometimes at all! 😵‍💫) and bed is around 7:30pm.

For evening routine we do dinner, bath, and straight to bed. He is a pretty good eater which I think helps him sleep? I always end the meal with a sippy cup of whole milk to fill him up. Then a little water as I hold him before putting him down for the night.

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Mine is usually up around 5:40am because of my job on the weekends he’s up at 8-8:30am and naps at 12:30pm everyday until 2:30 if he sleeps the whole nap and in bed by 7:30pm

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I think it may just take time to settle out since you moved. But my son does 7/7:30 wake up nap routine starts at 12 , he’s asleep in his room by 1 and I go in and get him at 3:30, then start bedtime routine at 7:45 and he’s usually asleep by 8:30pm. Again I don’t know that it’s that she doesn’t need a nap but trying to adjust after moving takes time. Maybe just keep the routine the same for two weeks and see if you see any improvement?

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Bedtime is 8pm, nap at around 2. She usually wakes up at about 6:30am and we used to be able to get away with sleeping a little later while she babbled to herself but now that she's in a toddler bed she's been getting out of bed and getting upset that she can't get out of her room.

I agree that moving can definitely throw things off. We moved about a month ago and had some difficult nights (and one of those nights ended the crib since she fell out).

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Mine wakes between 630-7 naps 1-3 and bed by 8-830. He goes to daycare all week so he’s pretty active during the day.

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Wakes anytime from 6.00 - 07.30. Then naps from about 12.30 - 14.00. Bedtime is around 19.00. First part of night in cot then co-sleep the rest. Easy to go down so I don’t mind the co-sleeping for an easy life right now.

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Up at 6:30-7am, Nap 11:30-2:30, Bed 7-7:30pm

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You all have such similar schedules, so that tells me my daughter's needs haven't changed, and she's just having a hard time adjusting. She was too excited to sleep for the first several nights, so we kept going past her bedtime because she wouldn't settle, so that led to her waking up later than normal, and now we're kind of stuck in this awful "schedule" where we're both waking up around 1pm, she'll get sleepy enough to nap around 6 and go to bed at 2am 😭 OR if she doesn't get sleepy or I keep her up, we'll skip the nap and go to bed around 9, but she will treat it like a nap and wake up around 12am and won't sleep until 4am. I'm losing it! Also, I want you guys to know that we typically wake up and go to bed later, but NOT like this. I'm a stay at home mom, so I don't usually get up before 9, and we would normally be in bed by 10. I still breastfeed and cosleep, so once she's sleepy and drinking milk, she's falls asleep pretty quickly, but how can I fix this? Do I just force her to get up early tomorrow??

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Bedtime for my son is 9:15/9:30 and wakes around 8-8:30am. Nap is 1:30/2pm to 4pm. Not sure what to say about her getting up in the middle of the night. When my son wakes at night on a rare occasion, I make sure not to turn lights on or let him play etc. We don’t cosleep so I simply go in, change his diaper, give him a bottle of warm milk, and rock him a little before putting him back in his bed. Unless I have a feeling he is sick or something is off, I simply tell him to go to bed since he understands what that means at this age.

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My son has been refusing naps a lot lately. So if he doesn't nap I try to get him in bed 6:30-7:30 so he can still get 12 hrs of sleep. He still gets up between 6-7 even if he goes to bed at 9 or later.

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i would and just stay super close to what your normal would be for a few days. So if her normal wake up is 9 then get her up then (or maybe 10ish the first day or two to help her adjust) then make sure she’s going down for yalls usual nap time. Id let her sleep for the nap since u got her up in the morning and then try for bedtime however many hours after her nap ends that you usually do.my daughter goes to sleep 4-5 hours after she wakes from her nap or 12-15 hours after she wakes for the morning. my 2 y/o definitely went through a sleep adjustment for about a month after our last life changing event (having our next baby) so when she struggled and woke more through the night we would just go in her room, give her lots of love and support and then put her back in her bed and stuck as closely to our normal routine as possible. And she eventually went beck to the usual schedule. You guys moving is probably just a big life change and takes the babes a minute to adjust

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