My 20 month old ds (and the rest of the family who've had it too) is recovering from flu. He started with it a week ago and the worst of the symptoms subsided by about 3 days ago. He had a high temp, runny nose, bad cough etc.
Anyway now he is still so wiped out he has been demanding (in his own way) to go to bed an hour and a half earlier than normal despite having had 3 hours sleep today at lunchtime. Is this normal? He normally has 12 hours at night and a 1.5 hr nap and it just seems odd that even a few days after the worst of the symptoms have gone (he only has a runny nose and bit of a cough now) he still needs to sleep quite so much?
This pm he just didn't want to get out of bed and only did so at 4pm and then wanted to go back to bed at 6.15 (after 2 and a quarter hours of grumpiness!)