Anyone's LO Trying To Drop A Nap?
patchen30
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For the past week DS has been fighting and/or not taking his afternoon nap. He'd been in a great routine of sleeping 7pm-6am, then napping 9am-11am, then again from 2:30pm-4pm. Then he starting sleeping in until 7am and still taking that long morning nap and trying to drop the afternoon.
With DS I've come to the conclusion that he usually gets the same amount of sleep in a 24 hour period but unless I really try to control it he'll move the sleep around and if he's sleeping more at night he'll skip a nap, etc. I've tried to fix it by waking him up at 6am (I know, rough), then waking him 1 hr and 30 min into his morning nap. Doing that I've been able to get him to take an afternoon nap again.
But, I'm not sure if it's a sleep shift issue (per the Ferber and Weissbluth books) or he's really trying to drop a nap.
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Re: Anyone's LO Trying To Drop A Nap?
I personally would not be waking your DS up at 6am or when you think his nap should be over. I let DS sleep for as long as he wants. He leads the way with bedtime and naps. He's on a routine, but it's not like he has to go to sleep right.now because that's what his schedule says.
FWIW: DS has been on 1 nap only for the last 2-3 months. He goes to sleep at 8:30, sleeps until 7ish (doesn't STTN anymore), then naps from 12-2:30/3. He is much happier with only 1 nap. He sleeps like crap (even more so than normal) if he takes 2 naps during the day.