Napping and sleeping nightmare - please help!

iristony · January 2013

So here is our situation. My son wakes up around 630 or 7 and is not ready for a nap til 3. Even if I put him in room at 1- he does not fall asleep til 3. It has been a nightmare because he naps like 3-5/530 and then is the DEVIL when he wakes up- it takes an hour of him being inconsolible til he is a normal human being, and then he will not go to bed til like 10. He is definitely not ready to give nap up- we try sometimes and then he will pass out playing at like 4 and then be up by 630 for the night. I just want him to go to bed by 730 or 8 so I can have some downtime and I can go to bed before work the next day. Also, he falls asleep when my husband picks him up at 3 in car- so even if we fight so hard to keep him up he passes out in car and he cannot be awoken. Any advice????

Erinmmo · January 2013

The only thing I could suggest is that at around 1 you take him down for nap and at least have quiet time. But when you say your husband picks him up at 3 does that mean he is at daycare/school?

My daughter-26 months- went through a phase where she skipped a nap or two but I always at least had quiet time from like 1-2 or 3 (depending if she fell asleep) and still put her to bed at 8-8:30.

And she too is a little devil when she wakes up- its a 50/50 shot if she will cry for anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 minutes after her afternoon nap. I chalk that up to genes- if I take a nap I am not happy when I wake up either!

iristony · January 2013

Two or three days a week he is at my mother in laws 25 min away and he always falls asleep on way home. Other days he is home w me, nanny or husband. On weekends i often luck out because I take him out to do soemthing fun in morning and he passes out on ride home usually.

Gingersnap_mama · January 2013

Erinmmo:
The only thing I could suggest is that at around 1 you take him down for nap and at least have quiet time. But when you say your husband picks him up at 3 does that mean he is at daycare/school?

My daughter-26 months- went through a phase where she skipped a nap or two but I always at least had quiet time from like 1-2 or 3 (depending if she fell asleep) and still put her to bed at 8-8:30.

And she too is a little devil when she wakes up- its a 50/50 shot if she will cry for anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 minutes after her afternoon nap. I chalk that up to genes- if I take a nap I am not happy when I wake up either!

This! We went thru this phase too. I still instilled "quiet time." If she didn't nap, she didn't nap, and she just went to bed a little early that day. She finally got back into napping at 1. Just keep trying. Don't give in, it's probably just a phase.

rnbeth477 · January 2013

We are dealing with this with DS right now...well since our new baby came. One day he'll sleep and the next he won't. He is a terror when he doesn't nap, so I know he still needs one.

I pushed back the nap time. So, I lay him down at 2 now. If he doesn't sleep, he'll just have an hour of quiet time in his room. I'll give him books in the crib to occupy him. If he does sleep, I'll get him up at 4. Bedtime is 7.

Oleg&Liz · January 2013

My just turned 2yr. old DD takes her nap some days and other days not at all. She still goes down with a bottle though and its raw goat milk so it always makes her poop so I always have to go in and change her so that delays her going to sleep and sometimes she will poop a second time and I think all the diaper changing is disruptive too her going down. Other days she is dry and just hops about in there for an hour so I just have to keep her up and put her down to bed early.

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