My one year old is generally an okay sleeper but for a few months now doesn't seem to be able to manage more than 9.5 to 10 hours of night time sleep (with or without minor wake ups which happen every few nights). We generally put him to bed between 7:30 and 8pm meaning he wakes up between 5 and 6am, most of the time around 5:30am. We've tried a few things to get him to wake a bit later in the morning (earlier bed time, later bed time etc) but whatever we do we can't seem to get him to sleep longer than 10 hours. Fine, we'll just cope by going to bed earlier ourselves and hoping it's just a phase...
My question is about his naps. He has two naps - one starting 9:30-10am and the second starting 2:30-3pm. Because I've read that his night time sleep might be shortened by too much day time napping, I generally wake him up after an hour for the morning nap (sometimes 45 mins if we need to be somewhere), and after an hour to an hour and 15 mins for his afternoon nap. I almost always wake him earlier than he would wake naturally, and most of the time he is in a pretty deep sleep. However shortening his naps have made no difference to how long he sleeps at night - so I'm wondering whether I should let him nap for longer so that overall he's getting more sleep (and I'm getting more downtime!)?
Or alternatively, does anyone have any other ideas about how I get him to shift sleep from naps to night-time?! Would shifting to one nap a day help?
Thanks in advance, mumsnetters!
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haggis81 · 01/01/2017 17:34
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