14 month sleep

[Mummytomyhope]

Help please !!!
My girl is 14 months and has always been a bad sleeper.
Anyway currently she's still having 2 naps a day
9.30 for roughly a hour sometimes a hour and a half
Then second at 2.15/2.30 to 3.30
Bed at 7.30ish

It's currently taking up to a hour to get her down to sleep every night and it's exhausting I'm constantly going in and out the room for the hour until she sleeps.
She wakes and starts the day at 6 but usually wakes at 5.

Have you tried dropping her down to 1 nap? Maybe she’s having too much day time sleep so struggling to settle at night

I haven't no as I don't even know where to begin and she seems like she wants the naps

I've just answered your other thread. You just have to power through and keep her awake in the morning. If she falls asleep doing something, like on her way to an activity, then just wake her as soon as you arrive.

I aimed for the one nap around 12pm at this age. A sleep cycle is between 45 minutes and 1 hour so I'd not let her sleep for more than a couple of hours on the afternoon.

If I keep her away from 6 to 12 she'll be exhausted

She woukd be but you could start by keeping her awake till 11 and then moving it back to 12 ish gradually.

When they drop a nap there's always a transition period until they've adjusted

It does sound like she’s having too much sleep during the day so isn’t tired enough to settle to sleep at bedtime.
You could start by pushing her morning nap back a bit, so the first one could be at 9:45 for half an hour. Then the second one could be 1:30 - 3 or something. Then over time just sort of cut down the first nap and bring the second one forward until she’s able to last from 6am until around 12ish and sleep till 2/2:30 and then bed at 7 or whatever.
There will be a few days where it’s a struggle whilst she adjusts to being awake for a hour longer than she’s used to. But if she does a 5 min nap in the car it’s not the end of the world.

How would I start with trying to get her to just get to 12? Ilkke how would I start cutting the nap don't won't she be more tired at the next nap time.

Her usal second nap is 2.15 so would that have to eventually phase out to get to basically start from 12 instead of 2? And that be the only nap. Just really don't know how.

Yes you try and keep her awake till 12, 11 if you can't and let her sleep for a couple of hours and drop the 2 on nap completely

How did you go about dropping her other naps?

But say she only has a hour there's no way she'll be able to stay awake from 12 to 7 and what about her lunch. She gets tired at her current naps that's why I'm confused because she naps so easily and shows all the signs of being tired

Can't even remember to be honest.

Also what did you mean by saying "whilst she adjusts to being awake for a hour longer than she’s used to.""? How would it only be a hour

Mr previous message suggested cutting her naps down slightly so the first one is slightly later and a bit shorter, therefore bringing the second nap slightly earlier. This would hopefully mean that when you put her to bed in the evening she’s actually tired and ready for bed rather than fussing for an hour. You could then keep it at two shorter naps or eventually the naps would come close enough that you’d cut out the first one.
There’s no quick, easy way to solve it. Every parent has gone through nap transitions and had a few days of adjustments to deal with.
I think we’ve all given you the advice from our own parenting experiences. If you don’t feel like this advice is helpful then I’d suggest contacting a sleep consultant. They’ll probably offer similar advice (but charge you for it) and be there daily to help you and give extra advice suited to your particular needs.

The other thing to look at is the bedtime routine - do you have a consistent routine that you do every single night? Eg bath, into pjs, story time, into sleeping bag, cuddles and kisses, turn white noise machine on, turn lights off, pop into crib and say night night.
When we used a sleep consultant she emphasised the importance of a consistent routine as it signals to them that it’s time for sleep, so if you don’t have one already then that might be worth starting too.

So what would the schedule look like for you please simpley x

Yes always have a consistent routine