Do you wake your lo?
From naps, I mean?
I do but Oscar hates it and it can take up to 45 mins to get him reasonably happy again, which is really hard work. Should I just leave him to wake on his own? He just seems permanently tired nowadays so perhaps now he's walking he needs more sleep as he's constantly on the go when awake...
Argh! Help!
I do but Oscar hates it and it can take up to 45 mins to get him reasonably happy again, which is really hard work. Should I just leave him to wake on his own? He just seems permanently tired nowadays so perhaps now he's walking he needs more sleep as he's constantly on the go when awake...
Argh! Help!
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He normally naps 40 mins around 10.30 and then I let him have up to 2 hours at about 2ish, sometimes an hour and a half - I wake him up from that. He normally sleeps downstairs for the morning nap but because it was late today I put him in his cot.
He used to go 12 hours over night but is sporadic now. Cutting down daytime sleep didn't help that though.
Try not waking him for a couple of days and see how he goes!
Will let him wake up on his own and let you know how he gets on!
Queen Bee - I wouldn't know what to do with myself if Oscar napped like that! Or slept like that overnight
I leave her until she wakes up. Some of the baby books say they should have a certain amount of sleep and then wake them. If someone wakes me up when Im happily sleeping, I feel more tired and would be grumpy same as los.
My lo can have between 1.5hrs and 3.5hrs sleep in the afternoons.
I'm pretty lucky if lo sleeps for an hour and half i the afternoon and maybe an hour in the morning.
I try not to let him have more than 2.5hrs during the day, it tends to impact his nighttime sleep. He has always been an early waker and we work hard to extend it to 7am most mornings. So I'm reluctant to let daytime sleep impact that.
However if his afternoon nap is quite late I do wake him so that he will be tired enough to sleep at bedtime. So never normally let him sleep past 4.30 but ideally never past 3.30.
If he's a bit grumpy a drink of juice and a snack normally perk him up. S x
But sometimes of I need to go out I will.
She'll tend to back to sleep anyway in the pushchair or carseat x
Think today is going to go up the spout anyway as he's now napping again in the car after we went out. He needs it so I won't wake him, but he normally has dinner at 4.30-5!
Who knows how this'll play out now...
I don't wake him, but I *do* keep him awake. I put him to bed at 11am (usually ends up being earlier) after he wakes at 6-7am, and he sleeps to around 1pm. It's a struggle then to keep him up till 6.30pm, but I have to restrict naps slightly as otherwise he doesn't sleep well at night!
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If he's had crappy naps all day or he's been at nursery, and needs a 'top up' before bed I will only let him nap for 15mins before waking him up.
If he has more than 2.5hrs a day, it really impacts on his (and mine) nights sleep, so it's for his benefit really that I limit his daytime sleeping.
If he has more than 2.5hrs he's wide awake at 2/3am for a couple of hours and then he wants to spend the next day napping to catch up, so it's a viscious circle otherwise
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Alison xx