Nap nightmare

Anyone else struggling with what to do with naps atm? If my daughter has a nap she will take over an hour to go to bed and usually falls asleep between 9-10pm. If she doesn’t have a nap she will go bed nice and quick and 6:30/7 but she has a really disturbed sleep with lots of wake up and very often wakes up 4-5am and just won’t get back to sleep. I’m missing my evenings but hate waking up crazy early with little sleep even more!

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Try and cap it to an hour but she’s quite hard to wake up 😅 and often more like 2 a lot of time. Don’t let her sleep any later than 3pm max.

I’m having trouble with naps and sleep at the moment. If he doesn’t nap he’s up all night & up at 4/5 which is absolutely exhausting. If he naps, then I’m sat there for an hour with him at bedtime waiting for him to fall asleep. I definitely prefer when he has naps though as the unpredictability of him waking up in the night and early morning is awful 😣

Can you push her bedtime back? When my daughter first dropped her nap she was falling asleep before 7, now its usually 8-8:30 and she sleeps through until 6:30-7. On Saturday she fell asleep in the car at 6:30 and woke up at 10:30 for 2 hours then was awake for the day before 6am so it was definitely the too early bedtime making her wake up x

exactly the same as us! I am with you preferring the napping at least get more sleep in long run and waking up 4/5 is torture 😅 personally I think it’s just a weird stage in between dropping the final nap, longer wake windows so later bed time but still need that nap. Think disturbed sleep and early wake up is overtiredness. Glad to hear I’m not the only one though ❤️

I will try be a bit more determined in my attempts to wake her up 😂 what time does your little girl go to sleep in evening? X

Same here, not having an evening and 9/10pm dinners is rough. I’ve tried a 45 minute nap today 🤞🏼 (almighty meltdown when I woke but has been fine since)I guess ultimately the transition out of naps will be a tricky phase x

We have to wake after and hour and 15 mins max or she’s awake until 9ish and her naps at home have got earlier again at nursery it’s 12.30/1 but the odd day at home has been as early as 11.30

I'm struggling with what to do with naps at the moment too. If we put him down for one he takes ages to go to sleep but then will sleep 2/3 hours. If I cap his naps he's in a terrible mood for the rest of the day. If he has a good nap he takes forever to go to sleep at nighttime. I've tried today not napping him and he's been fine and took 5/10 mins to go to sleep at bedtime but idk if he does it everyday he'll be overtired!

it’s so hard to know the right thing to do is isn’t it! My daughter’s the same if I let her nap without waking she will sleep for 2-3 hours! 100% the terrible mood when capping as well 🙈 most of the time she just refuses to wake up 😂doesn’t seem like there’s a right way atm. Hope going without a nap works for you! X

I don't know what time he woke up but I heard him making a racket at 5.30am this morning 🤦🏻‍♀️ I had to give him a nap today but woke him up just before 3! 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

that seems to be like unwritten rule atm 😂 no nap and early bed equals incredibly early wake up. I’m sure I have read it’s a sign of being overtired… x

yeah probably! Seems like a bit of an impossible situation 🤦🏻‍♀️

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