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Late nap/bedtime problems

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happygoluckyhippo · 04/04/2019 20:45

My 11 month old has never been a good sleeper, day or night, but has improved recently.
He is on two naps a day, usually going down at 9:30/10am for his first one and getting up about 11.
The second nap is the problem. He absolutely is not interested in sleeping until 3-4pm which means it is too late to get him to bed for his (previously) usual bedtime of 7pm. We will adjust the bedtime routine to a little later but he will absolutely not go down until some time between 8:15 and 9pm. (Then he's up again at 7am...)
Surely he is not ready to cut down to one nap, but does anybody have any tips on moving nap #2 earlier at all? Really need my evenings back to chill a bit!

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Rainycloudyday · 04/04/2019 21:23

I would shorten the morning nap and get him up after 30-45 mins (maybe experiment a bit to see what works).

Jennyfirsttimemum · 05/04/2019 10:11

I'm having the same issue.

My DD is 8 months and has recently changed to a longer morning nap - 90 mins to 2 hours...

Then wants to nap at 4pm - which is too late for a bedtime of 7/730.

Today was better with an afternoon nap of 3pm to 45 mins.....

Then bedtime 7.40pm

happygoluckyhippo · 05/04/2019 20:14

@Rainycloudyday thanks for the idea! We randomly had a shorter 25 min morning nap today, then another short one in the pm (waking 3:40ish) and he's now finally down... at 8. Oh well, slight improvement! He must have been knackered though!
@Jennyfirsttimemum fingers crossed things keep improving!

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