Hi,
I posted here when DS was 6 months old ish and you were all so very helpful.
My DS is now one and I am really struggling with his naps. I wanted to know what your routines were with a baby of this age? My issue is that if I let him nap for too long in the morning, he won't nap at lunch and so ends up overtired by bedtime.
However I then tried following a well known sleep plan and only allowing him ten minutes for the morning nap but often he then wouldn't sleep for the rest of the day either.
I am not too fussed about a strict routine but nothing I try (and stick with for at least a week) is working and it makes it hard to make plans with friends/attend classes.
Does anyone have any experience of this? Has a 10 minute morning nap and a 2 hour lunch one worked for you? DS has never really managed the full 2 hours but at 9 months was doing 30 mins in the morning and then 1hour- 1 hour and a half at lunch. Now that's all gone out of the window!
He goes to bed between 6 and 7pm depending on whether he has napped or not and wakes around 6-7am with one quick breastfeed at 5am ish.
I know it might sound silly but it is really getting me down. I get a lot of anxiety around nap times and worry about whether he will sleep or not. If he doesn't, I get no time at all to do anything and with him still breastfeeding can feel quite 'touched out'. It has started to really effect me and in the mornings I feel a lot of dread. A bit of sleep training worked at 7 months but now he gets very hysterical if left and it ends with us both in tears. I have left him for 30 minutes on a particular awful day and I keep being told letting him cry is the only answer.
I just want to work out a routine that will work for him but that seems to be totally alluding me...
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Struggling with no routine for one year old DS!
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LittleNapRefuser · 14/02/2018 10:24
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