Sleep help!

adamsbabble

Ava's normal schedule is wakeup at 8, nap from 12-3 and bedtime at 8.  Lately though she has been waking up after only 7-hours... that's 3 or 4 in the morning!!!  I tried moving her bedtime to an hour later so she'll sleep longer, and she did go back to STTN for 12 hours again when I did this, but I just think that 9 a.m. is too late for her to wake up in the morning and it throws off her naptime.  I'm not sure if she needs a later bedtime and naptime (I would prefer that she didn't move to this... I look forward to 8 p.m. lol) or if I should just try to get her to stick to her normal bedtime and hope that the middle of the night wakings stop.  Any ideas on this?   

AgathiP04

I think it is a phase.  Niko has gone through so many sleep phases.  Once it is finally normal, something else happens.  Currently he is protesting napping, but will fall asleep out of exhaustion at 3pm.  I just try to stick to his schedule as much as I can.  The only other thing I thought of when he had night waking as a toddler was he sometimes ended up with an ear infection or also his 2 yr molars were coming in. 

Traycee1242

Have you tried cutting Ava's nap by an hour? This happened last year with the little girl I nanny for... Started putting her down at 1pm instead of 12 and she would sleep til 3 (if she wasn't up by 3:15 I'd wake her) and that seemed to get her back on schedule. While the daytime nap is awesome... I knew her parents appreciated the STTN much more!

GL

MelissaMc22

I was just going to suggest what Traycee did. Seems Ava takes a really long nap, how would she do if you cut it back a little?