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In the end after talking to my health visitor and some great advise on here, my daughter naps when I see she is tired. So far it's two naps a day but she might drop one in the future. She is still young and the health visitor said if she seems tired why take a nap away and I have to agree. My dd has been much better and I've come to realise her crying to sleep is more a result of seeing me walk away than her not wanting to sleep bless her. I miss her too he he

Mine are 17 months but been In this routine since 15 months as the 2 naps a day wasn't working for them.

Wake at 7am
Breakfast 7.30
Snack at 10.30
Sleep at 11
Wake up 1.30 ish
Lunch straight after
Snack at 4
Dinner at 5.30 and
Bed at 7

My 16 nth DS has whinged constantly lately, it isn't tiredness, just developing I guess

Cupcake you probably can't get rid of all whingeing, but two naps does sound like the way to go for your DD.

Oh and we do lots of snacking between meals too! she eats loads honestly!

My dd is 14 1/2 mo and is flipping between one and two naps. She Wakes up about 7 most days and has brekfasf within 20/30min of her waking and milk then half hour after that. Sometimes she'll nap at about 10ish sometimes 11/11.30 on the days of her later nap I'll make sure she's had a good snack/light lunch and she'll usually wake up by 1pm so I'll give her some more food. If she's had an early nap she's usually nap again in the afternoon about 2/2.30 for half hour or so. I will not let her sleep past 3pm as she's not tired enough for bed then. Tea is usually around the 5pm mark. If she's only had one nap and woken up at 1pm then she'll be bathed and in bed for 6pm.

It's a horrible time when they're grumpy!

Hope u find soenthing that works for you!

7-7.45 wake, potter in cot
8ish massive breakfast including milk in beaker, half hot cross bun, half banana, whole weetabix, more milk...
10ish snack e.g oatcake and dilute apple juice
12 lunch (today was leftover bol sauce, potato, broccoli; petit filou and raspberries, breadstick)
1230-230 nap
3 snack e.g digestive biscuit, homemade cake plus milk in beaker
5pm - tea, normally somehing like scrambled egg, toast, nat yoghurt and fruit
7 bath and bottle (210 ml)

I'm finding this thread really interesting!

Our routine (DS16 mths) is:

7am - wake and milk (200 ml)
8am - Breakfast
10am - Snack
11.30am - Lunch
Midday - 2.30pm Nap
2.45pm - Snack
5pm - Dinner
7.15pm Bath & Milk (260ml)

The only way I can keep him up to 11.30/12 is to go out and keep him really really busy. He will still have days he needs 2 naps so if it's one of those days his first nap is about 9am (I only let him have 40 mins) and the afternoon one will be about 2pm for however long he wants. When he seems like he needs a nap I put him in his cot and leave him.

Well I've tried one nap, two naps and she still pretty much whines before and after a nap so I'm at a complete loss as to what to do :s

Nope. It's breakfast at 7, then around 9 a snack ie banana or raisins etc then some milk before her nap which is around half ten eleven depending on what we r doing. So u see she gets snacks to. Don't worry, my daughter gets plenty if food!!

Cupcake, in your first post you mention breakfast then milk mid morning and then lunch. Surely this is milk instead of a snack and drink?

Yup my dd is pretty much on the same milk and three meals and two snacks. Milk is definitely not her snack!!

And my health visitor told me DS should be having a pint of milk a day- he is having 14 oz a day and eats 3 meals and 2 snacks!!!!!!!!!

Ds is nearly 17 months. Routine is
6am wake
7am breakfast
8am 7oz milk
10am snack
12pm lunch
1-2:30 sleep
4pm tea
5pm bath and book
6pm milk and bed

We spend most mornings at toddler groups or swimming or soft play so DS is on the go all morning and ready for his sleep and we have found that regardless of bedtime he wakes at 6 hence the 6pm bed time.

I didn't read it as just the minimum, I thought it was the amount you should roughly stick too. At that age she should be enjoying a very varied diet and not really relying on milk instead of snacks.

Could be completely wrong though.....

I think that's min guidelines. Otherwise by the time they reach adulthood the recommendation would be egg cup size!

Oh right. She has quite a lot more than that but I've always been a massive milk drinker. I still am really lol.

Yes, between 12 and 24 months its 300ml of full fat cows milk.

300ml? I didn't know that was the recommended amount. She has breakfast, then fruit as a snack and milk before each nap and then lunch and then milk before nap and then snack and then dinner then milk before bed. Obviously there's plenty of water/juice always offered all the time.

That sounds like pretty much what we did at that age Happiest.

Cupcake are you still giving milk as a snack mid-morning too? Is she on cows milk now? Does she have the recommended amount during the day?

If she is getting more than 300 ml then you might want to think about swapping the midmorning milk for a snack and a drink.

6.30am wakes (plays in cot & dozes)
7.30 gets up and breakfast
10.00 snack
12.00 lunch followed by nap
3.00 snack
5.00 tea
6.00 bath
6.20 in the night garden!
7.00 bed

Sometimes we add a short morning nap, today we were swimming at 11.00 so she went down at 9.45 for 1/2 hour as she gets tired swimming. She is 16 months but we've been doing this for 2 months.

Oh, and I've been meaning to post this:

This book might just be the perfect one for you .

Glad that you've found something that works for you. Has the crying before the naps stopped now?

I did two naps today and it seem to really work which I'm so thrilled about. 1 nap works for some children but my daughter clearly needs two. The yawn was a bit of a giveaway lol. She is still grumpy and moody as hell but I think that is just her actually the day I fed her her lunch early he just couldn't cope with all the food without a sleep. But when she does go to one nap I will definitely look back on this thread for reference