15 month old won't go to bed!

[poorlybaby]

He's been doing this for a week now but it's just getting worse! He used to go down between 7.30-8pm but now it's turning into 9-10pm and I don't know what to do!

Been on 1 nap since 10 months (his choice), and he always falls asleep on me then I move him to cot. His nap has recently moved 1 hour later - he won't go down any earlier. He usually wakes sometime between 7.30 and 8.30am.

Todays schedule as an example:
8am wake up
1.15pm nap
3pm wake up
7.30pm bottle and bed routine
9.15pm - just gone down

Am at my wits end as there's just no evenings anymore as the whole thing is spent trying to get him to sleep!

Shift his morning schedule. Wake him at 7am, put him down at noon (serve a light lunch at 11.30), and wake him by 2.

He also sounds like he needs to learn to self soothe. All naps and sleep down to bed awake but tired. Lights off, bit of gentle shhhh and patting him on the back or whatever and out the room.

Get him up earlier. 21:15 to 8:00 is 10h45 which is a completely reasonable amount of overnight sleep. Add in a 1h45 min nap and he’s sleeping 12.5h total in 24h, which is entirely normal for his age. He’s sleeping enough, it’s just all too late if you want an evening. I’d just bring everything forward by an hour.

He is waking quite late. Wake him up earlier in the morning then hopefully this will shift his body clock an hour earlier and he may go to be earlier 🤞🏻

Yep, you tend to need to choose between hardly any evening but no early starts or an evening to yourself but up much earlier! He probably won't sleep 7pm-8am, 7pm-6am is more likely, so you might need to just shift the day earlier if you want more evening. DD has only ever needed max 11 hours of sleep overnight from being a toddler, unless it's been a very busy day or she's ill!

Thanks all this makes sense.

He's always been a great overnight sleeper (I'm very lucky!) but just recently his nap and bedtime has moved later without his wake up being later!

Think I'll try waking him tomorrow and maybe cutting his nap a bit shorter and will see what happens!

He's so active running around all day every day I don't know how he's not tired!

3pm - 7:30pm is less of a gap than my 12 month old has between his nap and bedtime

He's up from his nap by 1pm and in bed for 6:30pm

Agree with pp need to wake him earlier or cap the nap

Just thought I'd update!

So woke him at 7.30 this morning, nap went back to 12.30 and he went down at 8pm! Here's hoping he wakes on his own tomorrow!

Thank you for the advice everyone

The clocks moving forward won't have helped.