Boring I know but bear with me... routines for 20 month olds...

[poppiesinalinewithtinsel]

what's yours doing?

Just wondered if I should be cutting down on daytime sleeps or milk.

So, what your lot up to at this age?

p.s. Liath - I meant my maiden name began with an h not my married name. I have never met anyone with the same name as me.

boo64 - I think my LO is having a growth spurt and is using the sleep to grow (or is that an old wive's tale? )

He will go without a nap if necessary but tends to get a bit crabby. He will still fall asleep in the buggy but has to be pretty worn out.

Mine at 20 months were both something like this:

Up at around 7
Cup of milk (4oz or so)
Breakfast at 8
Snack at 10 (fruit, breadstick, piece of cheese etc)
Lunch at 12
Nap 12.30-2.30
Snack at 3
Tea at 6
Bath at 7 and bed at 7.30 (had dropped bedtime milk by this stage)

mine just turned 26m old

Wakes up @ 7am (she naturally wakes up @ 7am)
out of bed at 7.30am
shes not a cereal person but does prefer her milk - 9oz (cows milk)
dinner at 12 - 1pm
sleep after dinner for 2 hours (if she is ill she have 3 hours)
tea @ 5pm
bed @ 7 - 7.30pm with 9oz milk and 9oz very mild diluted juice

throughout the day she have very mild diluted juice and healthy snacks plus crisps and biscuits

Interesting thread here.
DD2 is 19 months and for the last 4 or 5 months we have more or less the same routine. I dropped her daytime milk feed when she was 12months. She loves her food and eats other dairy products. So she has milk 80z first thing in the morning and about 3oz of milk at nighttime. She's not too fussed with it at nighttime but she's sees her older sister with milk and wants to have a drink too.
Her nap time is now from 45mins to 1hr. She's generally a good sleeper and is down at 7pm and sleeps through till 6.30am.

my dd 19 months still has 3 bottles (8oz) of milk throughout the day! Perhaps this is too much... I just worry that if she doesn't eat/drink enough she will wake in the night. (this fear beagn when weaning did.)

This has been very interesting to see how everyone else does it.

I know psychobabble. I do feel lucky that he still has a sleep in the day. My older two had given up their daytime sleeps by now, so I am feeling quite chuffed! Although I fear it is coming to an end as bedtimes are becoming later and he isnt sleeping as well at night.

Snailpace - I am glad I am not the only one to still give so much milk. My older two were not really interested in milk at this age but DS2 seems to love it and I've kept going with it and was feeling like maybe he should be eating more and drinking less. I don't know.

When do they drop the lunchtime nap typically?

And does anyone know the total amount of sleep a 18 to 20 month old is supposed to need? Obviously it varies but would be useful to hear. I'm sure it must be in some of the books like the one we aren't to mention but I am too lazy to look and someone on here might know!!

When mine were that age this is the routine we had:
7am-up and 9oz cup of milk.
8am-breakfast-porridge,cereal or toast with fruit
10am-snack-usually fruit like cut up apple,a banana piece of melon etc.
12pm-lunch-sandwiches,jacket potato,omelette or other similar things.Then fruit for dessert
12:30-2:30-naptime
3pm-snack-similar to 10am
5:30pm-cooked meal then fruit mixed with natural
yogurt for dessert.
6:30-bathtime then pyjamas on
7pm-9oz cup of milk,teeth brushed
7:10-stories
7:15-lights out.Usually asleep by 7:30 at latest.

wow youngmum. I wish mine would eat that much. If I give food that often DS2 just doesnt want to know. He'll only eat a 'proper meal' if he hasnt had anything at all for about 4 hours

boo64 - I have no idea when they typically drop the daytime sleep. As I said, my older two had dropped all daytime naps by the time they were 18 months yet I had friends whose los still had a daytime sleep at nearly 3 and still slept well at night. I suppose they are all so different.

This is a very interesting thread, goes to show how they are all individuals!

I might start one for 12 months... would be interested to see whats the norm for my DD (13months) unless any of you can recall?

Any one for the 12 Month'ers!

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Hi - my 3rd is 22m and has had the same routine since just over 12 m -

Wakes (is woken usually!) 7.10am
Bfast - cereal plus toast 7.30
snack - 10.30
lunch 12.30
nap 1.10-2.45 - school pick-up
snack (sometimes) 3.30pm
dinner - 5.30
bath - 6.15
10oz milk - 6.40
bed - 7-7.30 - depends on mood - hers and mine!!
All 3 have been the same except for the milk - the other 2 had given it up by now.

DD2 is 20 months
8.30am gets up with cup of milk
9.30 breakfast (cereal or toast or fruit or yogurt)
12.00 lunch (early but sister has hers b4 nursery)
30 min nap somewhere b4 2.30 (not every day tho)
3.30pm snack (biscuit or fruit)
5.30pm tea (whatever we're having)
7.00pm bed with cup of milk b4hand

And I too have a daily battle with trying to squeeze in DD's daytime nap and fighting with myself to let her sleep for longer and be up later etc...

I've tried dropping it but then she falls to sleep anyway, anywhere she is or just gets ridicukously over tired and stroppy in the evenings when Im trying to bath her etc,,, so I figure she still needs one. So for now, I never know from one day to the next whether she will have one or not, or how long. Personally, I can't wait until she does drop it because at least it will be one less dilema a day that I have to face!