12.5 month and sleeping.

[deste]

I look after my grandaughter three days a week and she gets my full attention while awake. She will sleep for 2 hours in the morning and 1.5 in the afternoon sometimes more. When she is at Nursery it’s less than an hour and a half for the whole day. Is she sleeping too much through the day with me. Mum is not complaining because she still goes down early but wakes up through the night for a feed. If I don’t let her sleep early afternoon she will fall asleep on the trip home with mum. She does not walk or crawl yet so it’s not that tiring her out. Her mum slept a lot when she was a baby. I reckon she wouldn’t sleep if she wasn’t tired.

That is a lot of sleeping but like you say, she wouldn't sleep unless tired. DS is 14 months and some days sleeps for 1.5h but even up to 3 on other days. I only wake him up if he's asleep too late and I'm worried that he might not sleep at bed time.

My little boy has just turned one and would do the same (2 hours in morning, 1.5 in afternoon) if nothing disturbs him.

As long as afternoon nap isn't past 3.30 he is fine for 7pm bedtime.

He can also do the same at nursery if he isn't disturbed.

I think he may need to drop to 1 nap soon as the afternoon one is getting slightly harder to go down for, but for now he is fine.

He's comfortable and happy - let him sleep. If he's like mine, he's v active and curious and doesn't sit still when awake so needs the sleep! X