dropping day sleep

[funnyfarm]

At what age did your child/children drop their final day sleep and how did you know that they were ready?????????

Janet.

[rynosmum]

Ry is still having 2 sleeps per day (2 hours plus 1.5 hours). If he has a longer morning sleep, we drop the afternoon one but by about 5:30 it really shows in his irritability.

So, no advice from me. We're miles away as yet !

:)

[Kristy&Alex]

Hello,

My14mth old still insists on 2 naps during the day & it is driving me crazy:banghead: sometimes he is up until 11:30pm:eek: & I know this is NOT good. He usually wakes up between 7:30am & 8:30am & goes back to sleep by 10am or 11am. When he wakes up he is on the go constantly for 3 or so hours & then he wants to sleep again at about 4pm:thumbsdown: . Yesterday I tried not putting him down for his afternoon sleep & he went down at 7:30pm but was up again at 10pm, 11pm & 12pm & then wanted another bottle & nappy change. In the end I had to sleep with him, to get him settled:crying:

I'm exhausted all the time I still try to sleep when he does during the day (this is terrible I know) & I never get anything done. The midwife says I need to try harder at not putting him to sleep past 4pm....but thats easy for her to say when its not her baby whinging because he's tired & wants to sleep!

Any tips? Advice? Please?

[drewid]

Andrew still mostly had 2 day sleeps. Though on some days he will only have 1, but there is no rhyme or reason as to why.

He has his biiiig sleep in the morning, about 8-10/11. And then if he has an afternoon one, its usually around 2-3. If he skips his afternoon nap, I try putting him down again around 4, and if he doesn't sleep, then he stays up until bed time.

When he has an extraordinarily long afternoon sleep, I wake him up after 1.5 hours. I know if he sleeps longer than that, he'll be up past bedtime, so its easier to wake him up, than deal with a refusing-to-go-to-bed boy at 7pm.

Alone&Pregnant....if you put your bub down to sleep at 4, just let him have a catnap - wake him up after 30/45 mins, and that shouldnt' impact so much on his night time sleep. It'll just give him enough of a boost to make it through to bedtime, but without totally refreshing him.

And dont' feel bad about sleeping during the day when your bub does - quite often I go back to bed in the morning when Andrew does. Sometimes that REALLY helps, and the rest of the day is more productive.

[mamamianz]

Grace too dragged her sleeps out with 2 a day but only 1hr each until my dad of all people gave me some useful advice
He told me to train her to have 1 sleep by each day putting her down later by half an hour until we got to the stage when it was after 12 and finally had an 1 1/2 and somedays now has 2hrs .
She is 20mths now and I intend for her to have an afternoon sleep as long as we can
I think until they 3-4 its important

[SnoozesWithCats]

Rachel had her first no-sleep day at 22 months (that was when she first was able to get out of the cot. She spent a happy hour quietly flinging nappies around her room till we found her!) and I finally allowed her to "officially" give up Afternoon Sleep at 2 1/2 (at which point she would only go to sleep if someone lay down with her in the room for 15 minutes repeating the mantra "lie down...go to sleep...lie down" so basically it was only weekends when DH was around)

How we knew she was ready ... well, our routine was sit in bed read a book, then I'd tuck her in and go out of the room, and then she'd go sleep. So basically, this just progressively worked less and less often - she'd just get up and bounce on the bed for two hours. And I noticed that she went to bed at night much more hapilly on "no sleep" days because by that time she was whacked, so that pretty much reconciled me (also the fact that shen she DID have a sleep she'd often cry for an hour upon waking up). But it's still HARD at 3 in the afternoon when I desperately want a nap myself but instead I have to ride herd on a progressively-more-crotchety two-year-old!

The first few "no sleep" weeks she was pretty uncontrollable by 6-ish, but she's almost getting to the stage now where she can actually last the day with no tiredness meltdown at all.

[TwoBlue]

Samuel (26mths) stopped day sleeps a week ago..

well i stopped them...

Before then he was having one day sleep around 1pm and for about 2 hrs
then he started staying up till 10 - 11pm at night :banghead:

so i decided he didnt need the day sleep (even though i needed him to have it :o )

It took a few days for him to adjust but now he is fine all day and by 7:30 pm after dinner, bath, milk and a story he is putting himself to bed :smiliedance:

much better :yes:

[ButterflyKisses]

My DS has just turned 3 and still has a 2-3 hour day sleep.

I find if I don't put him down for a sleep he will nod off at around 5-6pm and then wake again at midnight-1am and then we can't get him to sleep for an hour or so so at the moment I'm quite happy for him to still have his nap and at least I can have that time to myself to do housework, have a bit of a sleep or be on BH (LOL).