15 month old sleep schedule

My son hasn’t slept through the night in almost a year now. I’ve come to terms with it but my problem is his schedule seems to needing adjusted and I am lost on what to do. He used to wake up around 6-6:30 and take two naps a day. One around 9-10 and then another around 2-3. They were about an hour long and all seemed fine. Then he started to get molars and canine teeth and his naps got shorter. Bed time was at 7 and he would be asleep around 7:30. Waking I’m at night happened about 2-3 times. He started to wake up more frequently and we assumed it’s the teeth. His teeth are still erupting so it very well could be that but his sleep is all over the place. We tried going to one nap a day but he was not having a good afternoon being forced to stay awake for 5+ hours. But if I try to put him down for an afternoon nap before 4 he won’t go down. Which pushes bedtime off to around 9. And he started waking up around 5. We’ve tried letting him take a late afternoon nap and going to bed around 8 and he slept for a 4 hour and 5 hour stretch. But last night he went to bed at 9 because his afternoon nap was longer he woke up a bunch still. I guess what I’m asking advice on is how did you know if your baby’s schedule needed adjusted and how would you adjust it? Like if they needed to go from one nap to two how did you go about it? What about bed times? I hope this makes sense😅

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As hard as it is, I wouldn’t stress about it too much and trying to follow schedules and wake windows and what not. My first didn’t sleep through the night until she was over two years old and even now almost 4 she still has frequent weeks depending on if it’s a bad dream or if she sick. My 18 month old does not sleep through the night I know I just sleep with him so I get the most amount of sleep and it’ll eventually come when they’re ready.

Ugg it’s so hard but I think the best thing is to follow ur babies cues. You can try to push the morning nap later and later (go outside, eat a snack) and see if that helps. My 13 mo just went down to one nap a day~usually~ and did start sleeping better but teething definitely gums it up!

Work out how many hours he sleeps in a 24 hour period. e.g., my boy will only sleep 10-11 hours in 24 hours. So if he has 2 hours of naps in the day, he will only sleep 8-9 hours overnight.
You’re also in that awkward stage where he’s not quite ready to drop to 1 nap but probably will soon.
Personally I would try to reduce day time sleep so he’s got more hours left to fill overnight. Maybe in a few weeks he will be ready to reduce to 1 nap.

I would push for a one nap schedule! My boy does one long nap at lunch time and it helped him sleep through the night. Cutting milk during the night also really helped us!

https://huckleberrycare.com/blog/2-to-1-nap-transition#strategies_for_managing_this_transition

We’ve used huckleberry app and it’s been pretty accurate on his naps (not always but usually). My 15 month old is on 1-2 naps depending on the day. About 5-6 hours wake windows if one nap day. I think it was around this time he started refusing morning nap so I knew we would use the estimating for 1 nap day on huckleberry to aim for instead.

I also made sure he gets breakfast, then milk, then snack, then lunch, then milk before his afternoon/1 nap day and he seems to nap better on a full tummy like this.

I’ll be honest we also co sleep in a full size floor bed (him with 3 pillows surrounding him and a mattress against the wall) so around 2 or 4 am he gets up, looks around, squeaks and puts his paci in then falls asleep… still wakes me but not as bad as him crying from the other room and needing cuddles or milk.

Still not perfect but sharing my experience, hope it helps 🙏🏽

We also give Advil or Motrin before bed/bath if we know a tooth is coming and gums are swollen/he is fussy/drooling etc

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