I've posted before about DD 17 mo sleep, and its getting worse not better. Not sure if I need to do something about when she sleeps, or whether its weird developmental things throwing her brain - and sleep - off.
After a long transition, we're now fully on 1 nap a day. But she is suddenly a nightmare to settle at bedtime - often taking well over an hour. Sometimes crying sometimes not - just lying there.
I've been putting her to bed 5ish hours or so after she wakes from her nap - so usually between 6.15 and 7. Tried a bit earlier and a bit later too. No such luck. I wouldn't mind but she still wakes between 5.30 and 6 in the morning, so she ends up with a v short night. And frequently wakes shortly after she has gone to sleep, and increasingly in the night.
She's also started to take shorter naps. She usually wakes after 1 hr/ 1 hr 15 and I've always been able to get her back to sleep for another 45 mins or so, but more and more I can't so her naps are v short, and her day feels out of whack.
So today she woke at 5.50, napped 11.30 - 12.35 and I put her to bed v early as third day in a row of crap day sleep, at 17.50. Hopefully she'll be asleep soon.
She's pretty hard work and willful (although v sweet) and I don't know if thats just the age (I don't really remember DS being like this but they are different kids..) or whether its chronic overtiredness making her behaviour significantly more challenging?
I don't know whether to keep trying sensible wake times, and just ride it out and hope it evens out soon, or change something? Set naps? Will that just make her more OT?
Any wise words/ advice? or commiserations on 17/18 months?