To be fed up with having to sit for 3 hours to get ds to sleep ?!!!

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And to ask parents of one year olds :

How many naps your dc has a day
What time they go to be
And how long does it take them to fall asleep ?

yanbu - I would be fed up with that as well

I haven't got a 1yo but did have one 6 yrs ago - I think she was still having two naps at 1yo, about half hr at 10am and about an hour and a half at about 2pm.

Normally 2, anytime she decides first nap can be any time from 8am to 2pm if I feed her to sleep she drops off after 5 -10 mins if she's being rocked etc it can take a good hour

DD2 has just turned 1. She usually has 2 naps a day, one about 8.30-10 and one about 12.30-2, but these are a bit variable. She goes to bed at 6pm, wakes around 5.30.

If DH puts her to bed, he gives her a bottle and then tucks her up and she goes straight off - if I do it she likes a good cuddle for 20min or so.

She's not quite sleeping through every night yet, I sometimes have to do a couple of cuddles during the night, although we have recently managed to get her off the boob at night (she's been day weaned since I went back to work at the beginning of September, but clung onto the night feeds!)

3 hours is a long time, I do feel for you.

I honestly think I am ready for cracking up at any moment . I've been in here since 8 o'clock and he's STILL AWAKE !!!!

Oh god I could be you. Ds is 15 mo. dropped to one nap at about 12 mo - but recently has not been able to nap until later (used to be 11 now more like 1) seems to have forgotten how to self settle. Today he had a one hour nap 1-2 and it took from 7-8.45 to get him to sleep. I resorted to holding him. If I try and settle him in cot it's nearly 9.30. I woke him from his nap as if it had been too long he would never haver gone to bed

At one, both my Ds would be up for the day around 7/7.30. Nap after lunch starting 12/12.30 until 2.30. Bath time 6ish then quiet play until 6.45 ish. Tv on mr moon or similar with milk. Youngest bed for 7.15 oldest allowed 15 mins 'me' time then bed 7.30

2 naps. Half an hour about 9am and the same after lunch. Sleeps 7 - 6 ish. Wish she'd sleep a bit later. It was 545 this morning.

7 o'clock . See , I'm cracking up

8 month old - sketchy naps but usually one in morning and one around lunchtime. Launch him into cot around 7pm after changed into baby grow and having a bf or bottle in a dark room. On a bad night he cries for 5/10 mins while having a chew of his teddy, on a good night he drops straight off to takes his dummy.

Ds is 18 months but routine has been the same since about 9 months!...

Up at 6 ish
Nap 9-10.30
Go for a long ish walk (we live rurally and ds loves plodding about on the reins, we either do that or go to the shops etc)
Lunch
Nap 2-3.30 (if dh is working I have to wake ds up at 3 for school run for dd)
Dinner and bath around 5 ish
Bed 6.30

I have been lucky. Ds usually goes off to sleep with just a sleeping bag and a dummy. I always put him down for naps the same way I put him down for bed - dark room, sleeping bag, dummy, night night etc.

I am absolutely dreading him dropping any naps so clinging onto them as long as I can!

If I stayed in the room, he wouldn't go to sleep as its way for fun to pull faces and scream at mummy.

Mines a fortnight off. He SHOULD have two naps one at ten for about an hr and one at two for about an hr this means he'll be sleepyish by about 8. Its a killer trying to get them sleep. Im with you there... but never three hours, id just give uupand start again else id crack up. If ive been trying for longer than 40 mins thats when I start to waiver.

DD is 14 months.

Bed at 7-7:30. Asleep by 8:30 at the latest. Wakes once or twice during the night. Up any time between 7 and 9. 1 nap of 1-1.5 hours, midday ish (depending on wake up time). It usually takes her 15-30 minutes to get to sleep for her nap.

However, I do know that if she gets overtired she will take much longer to settle. She also settles better if just left to it, she has a dummy, teddy, and I play lullabies if she's struggling to drop off.

DS is 1 (today!)

He's starting to be a bugger to get to sleep though (touch wood) not 3 hours.

He always has milk at 7 and then up to bed. Has always preferred going in his cot and getting himself to sleep but is taking longer to settle recently.

Naps are altering too. Before he started nursery and I was home with him he consistently had 2 naps, am and pm. Since nursery he only has one the days he's at nursery but usually still 2 on a thu and fri when he's home with me. The last couple of weeks have changed - yesterday he had 2 absolutely fine and dandy. Today he had 1 and fought it tooth and nail and was then babbling away for ages at bedtime.

Ok so here is where we are it . His routine was up at 8am , one nap a day after lunch usually for about an hour , bed at 7.30ish .
But he started waking during the night and I read that's a sign he isn't getting enough sleep during the day so I changed his naps to two a day 11am and 4pm . BIIIG mistake !
That's just meant he is now not tired enough to go to sleep at night .

I have just made the decision to go back to one nap a day and fuck what Google has told me !!

My 12 month old has 1 nap most days. He sleeps around 11ish for anywhere between 1and 3 hours.

I don't sit with him, either he sleeps in his pushchair or on the boob and I cuddle him and drink tea :

He goes to sleep at 5.30. I just feed him in bed for a few minutes and he sleeps almost right away, he's pretty exhausted by then.

Don't do it then. Put him in to bed and leave the room.

Should add he's still up at least once in the light for milk - sometimes twice and always finishes feeds in those times

Oh fit him to start sleeping through....

Kafri happy birthday to your ds !

dd 14 months will nap 9-10 ish then 1.30-3 or maybe half 3. Bed 7.30 (asleep by 7.45, usually quicker) then through to 6.15 or maybe 7 If I'm really lucky!

I'd wake him up earlier (Yes trust me) so his naps are squashed in around 9 and then around 2 so you're leaving a longer gap before bed so heels really tired. A nap finishing at 4pm is too late before bedtime so he won't be tired.

I'd wake up at 6.30 for a few days and see if you can re establish a sleepier bedtime.

When mine was that age (I checked nursery records) she got up between 6.30 and 7.30, half an hour or so nap in the morning and then a 2-3 hour nap in the afternoon. Bed between 7.30 and 8. She does have a problem which makes her more tired than the average child though.

At 9 months we used controlled crying on the advice of the health visitor because she was needing to be rocked/carried for up to an hour or so, and I am not physically capable of that. First two nights were grim but after that she would just fall asleep within 5 to 10 minutes, often quicker - and happily too, no crying, just snuggle and sleep. No dummy(refused), no going to sleep on the bottle. Routine was milk, clean teeth, 2 stories, cuddle. She has teddies.

I reckon then my dd and your son OP are getting a similar amount of sleep 13.5 hours. My Dd cannot stay awake long enough to only have one nap a day. Perhaps your son is overtired because of the length of time he is staying awake in the day not the total amount of sleep he has?

I have a now 18 month. He stopped napping reliably at around 9 months.

He stays downstairs with us until he falls asleep on the carpet any time between 9:30 and 11pm, then we take him to bed.

Can you not do that?

If you feel like you are going mad I would leave him to it tbh and go and get a lovely or

Seriously he will be fine, infact I imagine without you there he will prob lie down and pass out!!