How much/when do your 21-22 month olds nap/sleep at night?

[omama]

For those of you with LO's this age, just wondered what yours were doing right now i.e.

when do they wake?
when do they nap & how long for?
when do they go to bed & how quickly do they fall asleep?
do you put them down for a nap at the same time every day or do they fall asleep whenever they are tired, wherever that may be?
finally, do you wake your children from naps & if so why?

Just interested to hear other's points of view. We keep to a pretty strict routine with DS of wake: 7.15am nap 1.15-3pm bed at 8pm so he gets arould 11-11.25hrs at night. We wake him in the morning for otherwise he wouldn't be tired enough to nap (or put another way, if he's not awake for 6hrs before his nap then he's not ready for bed at bedtime). We also wake him from his nap after 1h 45 or he isn't tired enough at bedtime. He's now at the point where he needs his nap capping again b/c he's not going to sleep til nearly 8.30pm & I am still waking him at 7.15am so his nights are getting short.

I hate waking him & feel so awful b/c he's always so sound asleep when I do& so I'm sure he needs more, even though he doesn't appear to be overtired during the day. Its more that because I always wake him, he never gets to sleep extra if he needs it eg b/c he's more tired on that particular day.

I'm wondering if now he's older, I need to let go a bit, let him wake naturally in the AM & wait for him to show me he is tired for his nap, even if it is way later than his usual time. As I've a feeling he can probably stay awake for longer than I allow. But I have 2 overwhelming fears: 1) that I won't spot his tired signs & he will end up like a wild child overtired and 2) that if I do this & let him nap for as long as he wants then he won't be ready for bed at bedtime. And then what do I do???

DD is 21 mo. She goes to bed between 8 and 8.30 and sleeps for 11 hrs on average. She gets put into bed awake and falls asleep herself in a few minutes.

She doesn't have a nap as a rule, never really has. She has never fallen asleep if put down, only in the car. So if we have been out somewhere she will fall asleep in the car and have 30min - 1hr. If we are at home she has no nap.

We drop DP at the gym at 4 pm every day and she will sometimes fall asleep then. If she does I let her have 20 mins and then wake her because if she has a nap then she won't go to bed untill really late.

He actually woke himself this morning at 7am so I decided to wait & see when he got tired. First eye rub at 1.30pm, asleep 1.45pm. He was still asleep at 3.15pm & so I woke him for fear he wouldn't be ready for bed at 8pm.

And he wasn't. Didn't fall asleep til 8.30. Its all getting a bit late now & it means his nights are short when I have to wake him in the mornings for work.

I actually thought by giving him a later & shorter nap he'd settle ok at bedtime but to no avail! Maybe he is having too much day sleep still? Is around 1hr the norm at this age?

DS wakes up between 6am-7am

He naps at about 1pm - I used to let him sleep til 3.30pm (he would sleep longer if he could!) but have recently started waking him at 2.30pm as he was struggling to sleep at bedtime.

Bedtime is at 8pm - goes into bed awake after a story and is usually asleep within 5-10 minutes.

I've never set a timed routine for DD (20mo) although have been quite strict about her always going to cot for a nap and having the same play-bath-stories routine at bedtime.

Wakes anywhere between 6.30 and
7 although occasionally a bit earlier or later. Nap after lunch, so usually 1ish, for as long as she wants - anything from 1-3 hours still, very variable. 2 days a week she doesn't get a nap until about 2.30 due to activities for 4yo DS. I only wake her if it is after 5pm.

Bedtime anywhere from 7 to 8. She sleeps through most nights but if she does wake it can be hideously difficult to get her back to sleep (maybe once a month it's really bad)

She def still needs a nap, and it doesn't affect her nighttime sleep but from talking to friends she is in the minority as their babies are at the phase of not sleeping well at night if they nap in the day.

DS is now nearly 20 mos (sorry,. bit outside your parameters!) and has a nap of somewhere between 30 mins and 1h 30 at some point in the day. Goes to bed about 8.30 and sleeps until around 7.30 am. Does not sleep through in any way, shape or form. Hasn't since he was 8 months old.

For naps he sleeps in his cot or out and about in pram/ car seat etc; for night sleep he sleeps in our bed although we are trying to get him out of this habit. Unsuccesfully it has to be said.

DS is also 20 months. He sleeps for between 1-2.5 hours at lunchtime-ish, usually goes to sleep fairly quickly at around 7 - 7.30pm, and gets up for the day at around 7am. Between the hours of 7pm and 7am he can wake numerous times, or not at all (usually the former). Sometimes he goes back to sleep straight away, other times he messes around for a couple of hours.

I can't work out what the deciding factor is, and the only thing I have noticed is that he usually decides to have a lie-in on a Friday, which is the only day of the whole week where we all have to be up and out of the house by 8am. He doesn't have a particularly strenuous day on a Thursday so I don't know why this is. This morning he was still snoring away (literally) at 7.50am, so I woke him up. Luckily our lovely CM will give him breakfast when his happens

The other day, after a particularly bad night, DH let him have a 3 hour nap (1-4). He then refused to go to sleep until 10pm, so following that little adventure I think we will be limiting daytime sleep to under 3 hours and up by 3.30pm.

We've resorted to making a sleep chart to see if there is any other pattern, feel a bit of a geek but at least I feel I'm doing something...

If my DD 22mos has more than 45 mins to 1 HR she is not going to bed till 9pm. I think the only way to get a 7pm bedtime is no nap. If she doesn't have one she can make it to about 530. Sleeps all night but always has done.

Its amazing how different they all are! And for those of you who have LO's who nap for 2hrs+ & still go to bed & sleep all night no problem - boo to you!!!

Well DS woke at 7.15am this morning after his late BT yesterday. Napped 1.15-2.45 (woke him after 1.5hrs). And he still didn't fall asleep til 8.15pm. I think the nap is on its way out.

Same here mama. I capped nap today at 1 hour and he was still up until 8.30 tonight.

I am pretty sure that DS could go all day without a nap but I daren't try!

lol me either! I don't think my DS could actually. Well, shall I rephrase that - if he'd slept 13hrs at night, he probably could, but with a 10.5-11hr night we don't stand a chance.

Yesterday I waited for him to show me he was tired & the eye rub came 6.5hrs after he woke up. So I think we're a way off. But its getting to the point where the nap is so late in the day its throwing bedtime.

I'm hoping that by cutting the nap his nights will lengthen & then he will cope ok with less day sleep. It can be a vicious cycle where they need the nap but the nap steals from night can't it?

It's always a tricky few months when they're getting less dependent on a nap. One's too many, none is not enough, argh.

DS is practically 2
He wakes really early so I limit day naps because I want him tired at bed time. It's slowly getting better in the morning.
He has no more than 1 hour.
I find he just is awake longer now in evenings.
Some days I don't use buggy, it's slow but it is really working at wearing him out.

oh no, don't say that, I'm not ready for DS to give up napping yet! Having said that, he woke up every 3 hours last night, so if napping is interferring with sleeping then something needs to change...

I do sometimes thing that if the day was 25 hours long then it would be easier to fit in the naps and bed times and getting up times that we all need!

I think we are about to start limiting nap time, we spent so long trying to extend his naps when he was smaller (and overtired) that it seems a bit wrong, but I'm pretty sure he's moved on from the 'sleep begets sleep' stage to the 'his lunchtime nap might be too long' stage.

Yawn.

DS is nearly 21 months. He is up for the day at 6.45am, nap at around 11.30-12 til 1.30-2pm Usually 2 hours, occasionally 2.5 hours. Generally asleep by 7.30pm. He doesn't wake in the night.

If we are out he catnaps in the buggy or car for no longer than 30-40 minutes which he can cope with but he's very ratty by about 5pm. I can't see him doing without a significant nap for some time yet.

Hi, my dd is nearly 20months. She usually wakes up at 7:15-8am and then naps around 1hr-1.5hr. In bed around 8pm. Depending on the day but she doesnt actually fall asleep til 8:30pm or 9pm...or later some nights...
I'm also thinking of capping her nap, but its hard when you want your time when she's napping...

well ladies, we were out on sunday & I decided to play naptime by ear rather than popping him down at a set time - he didn't seem at all tired so we did a no nap day! He lasted really well til about 4.30pm then I could see he was getting shattered so low key play & asleep in bed at 6pm.

He only slept through without a peep til 7am the next day!

Not for every day but at least I know if I need to I can keep him up without too much problem. He's had naps the last few days but he's not been settling til late & he's waking earlier & of course is now tired & needs a long nap to make up for what he's not had at night, but I daren't allow it for fear he'll be up til 9/10pm lol!