Is it time to cut down the nap?

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Dd2 has gone from being happy to go in her cot after milk, a cuddle and a story to wailing and crying everytime I leave the room. Last 3 nights bedtimes have been awful. I have had to leave her for a bit as I have another one to get to bed and she just gets hysterical. I wonder if she is not tired enough. She is 21 months, sleeps well at night for about 11 hours and has a two hour nap. Bedtime routine had not changed although she seemed hyper tonight and was hard to calm down.

Should I cut it?

Bump. She has just gone down for her nap with no trouble at all. In fact she asked for her cot. Makes me think she is not tired enough at bedtime if she is making such a fuss.....

I came on looking for advice & could have written your post about DS 20m. Always been a good sleeper & always fairly happy to go to bed. Last night was a disaster. Hoping he's better tonight.

This happened with dd around the same age and I think is quite common and possibly because they are becoming more aware.

The other thing to think about is if it is time to move out of the cot? We moved dd to the toddler bed at this stage and she was happier because she could get up and toddle round her bedroom a bit, and we often found her asleep on the floor at first. If they are coming out of the room a lot, you can do the rapid return thing, which felt a lot easier to me than leaving her in the cot.

Hi twofalls,

can you shorten the nap rather than cut it? Try it for 3 days and see if it makes a difference?

Some chill out time in her bedroom with some quiet toys books etc before bottle??

Good luck

:)

DD has had a bit of a sleep regression too. She's gone from going to bed happily at night to asking for endless books/toys and needing someone to sit with her while she falls asleep.

What time do you put her to bed twofalls? I notice that DD gets hyper if she's later than normal in going to bed, she seems to get over-tired and it's harder to get her to settle. I agree that cutting the nap down a bit could help. She might be a bit grumpy in the afternoons at first though, if she's used to sleeping for 2 hours.

Hello march postnatal people . Bedtimes are getting better thankfully. I am not letting her sleep past 3 regardless of what time she went down and have made sure we get some fresh air and exercise between 4-5. I have also stayed with her stroking her heAd for about 20 mins and tbat has calmed her, the first night she cried for morecuddles but I just sang to her and rubbed her back and she stopped protesting. And no tv after bath because night garden was getting her too hyped up . Tonight I was only in with her for 15 mins and she said "ni-night mummy" to me when I left. No tears!

I think it is an age thing but egress with dd1 I could spend ages with her I can't with dd2.

Hopefully we may have sorted it (until the next time!)

Missp, she goes at 7.