Has anyone got any advice/ experience to offer about dropping daytime naps?
DS is 17 months and very active. He?s not a brilliant sleeper ? and doesn?t seem to need a lot of sleep. At the moment he goes to bed (reluctantly) a 7/7.30pm and is usually asleep by 7.45pm.
He then can wake up once or twice in the night usually around 11pm and / or 3am. Both times he will sooth back to sleep fairly easily after a drink of water.
He wakes up to start the day anywhere between 5.30am and 7am. We?ve rarely had any success getting him back off if he wakes after 5.30am.
He has a nap after lunch at 12-2pm On days when he has woken up early ie before 6am he is dropping by 11.30am ? falls asleep in his pram on on yourl ap or in highchair, and I nearly always have to wake him at 2pm.
He has a snack at 3pm then tea with us at 5/5.30pm. Then a bottle of milk before bedtime at 6.30pm.
He isn?t a big eater and does better on 5 snacks a day than 3 big meals.
We did Gradual Withdrawal followed by Controlled Crying at 13 months to get him sleeping reasonably well, I don?t mind one wakeup in the night but he is moving back to two wakeups plus being very difficult to settle to bed.
He is a bit of a milkaholic as well ? prefers milk to solid food and so still has about 18oz a day split between 3 bottles.
Do I;
Do Controlled crying again for any night time wakings
Cut back his lunchtime nap to try and ensure he is tireder at bedtime
Move bedtime forward or back
I was thinking maybe an hour and a half at lunchtime 12-1.30pm and then he would be tireder at 7pm for bed. But not sure what to do in the night.
In total he seems to want about 12 hours sleep but only has 10 hrs of that at night plus two in the day.