Waking earlier again - is nap time affecting it?

[bluesmile10]

19 mo ds has never been the greatest sleeper and used to wake at 5 every morning. However in past few months this has improved and he wakes around half 6. Until the past week that is!! Suddenly getting earlier again. Could it be that he has a nap too late? Yesterday it was 2 until half 3 nap time. Is this too late and affecting wake up time? Or am I clutching at straws? If this is the case, how do I make him nap earlier? It was a battle to go down yesterday even tho he was hanging!!

I would say so, If my 25m old has a nap ending after 3 he will either take ages to get to sleep at bedtime OR wake early - naps are much better in our house taken before 2 :) ideal is lunch at 12, nap 12.30-1.30, but of course life ain't perfect so every day does NOT go like clockwork... the only way I got my DS to go the same time every (well, most days!) day was consistently putting him down at that time and he got the message after a bit. Sometimes I take him for a walk in the buggy at naptime and he will sleep pretty easy then.

Yes, quite possible. At that age, DS was waking at 7 and napping again at about 11.30/12ish. Now he's just 2 he wakes at 7 and naps at 7

He could be well be overtired in which case he'll both find it harder to go to sleep at naptime and may well wake earlier.

How do you get him to sleep at naptime? I'd be inclined to try a much earlier nap and use bf/rocking/pram/sling/car/whatever works. As brighton says, they do get used to it after a bit.

Trying for an earlier bedtime might help too (sounds counterintuitive but it does work for many children).

Thanks for yr replies. Angels, I usually do pram or car to be honest. He's a monkey and will hang on and on until he's so miserable. Dh on the other hand goes fir the put him in his cot and leave him approach but I really struggle with that especially when he's still crying an hour later!! He went down for nap today at 11.45, after we'd been in car so will see what sort of time he wakes tmw. I suppose I'm loathed to make bedtime earlier as I don't want to head back to the5 waking!!!! Maybe I should nudge it gradually and see what happens

Yes, gradually nudging earlier it would be a good idea.

FWIW, I know plenty of people who've done CC with success at night time but who've found it a dismal failure at naptime. There's just not the same biological drive for naps as there is for bedtime, especially as the LOs get older.