Hi all,
I’ve never posted on here before but wanted some advice about sleep! My DD is 12 months and sleeps 12 hours through the night! Which happened when she was around ten months! We are very lucky in that respect and her schedule looked something like this
Wakes 6:30
Nap 9-10:15
12 lunch
1:30 -3 nap
5 dinner
6:30 bedtime
For the last few weeks she’s been only having half an hour for her afternoon nap and no matter how far I push it she is very hard to go down for it and then is wide awake after 30 minutes. This has now caused her to become very overtired by bedtime and then she is waking at 5:30 most mornings
I think she is ready for one nap but I have tried to push her morning nap but she is always exhausted by 9:30/10. I also have a two year old so we like to get out the house ASAP. I have tried to use the Gina ford method of a really short morning nap followed by a long lunchtime nap but her sleep is very disturbed In the lunchtime nap and she stirs every half hour and then wakes about hour/ hour and a half later and then sometimes needs another little catnap to make it to bedtime!
Has anyone advice for handling this nap transition whilst also keeping their older child happy!