18 month old routine

[Rachel1210]

Hi all is anyone willing to share their sleeping/ eating routines for 18 month old. My LO is taking over an hour to settle at night and then wakes at 6am...he always used to sleep 7-6/6.30ish but now he’s not falling asleep until past 8 and then waking at 6. He naps 12.30-2.30 (I wake him at 2.30 as I found if he woke at 3 he wasn’t settling until 9....he’s always been a baby that needs a lot of sleep so it’s a bit odd. I wonder if I need to cap this nap further?

No he’s not waking at night and goes down fine for his nap. Just taking ages to wind down and then waking early!

Im just trying to hold on to the fact that at least he sleeps through

Same here - he goes through all night just takes ages to settle and wakes early so he’s a grump because he’s tired!!!

My 18 mo generally sleeps 7.30-7.30 and still has a big nap around 12.30-2.30, sometimes longer. I found that waking him from his nap early seemed to make for an early start the next day oddly! Might be worth letting him sleep for as long as he needs in the afternoon, maybe put him down a bit earlier for nap, over tiredness can still happen I think

Thanks again everyone for your replies - I can’t tell you what a comfort it is.
I’ve always woken him from naps as I’m always worried he’d sleep for ages in the day and it would impact his night sleep.
Mine is also very “chatty” at the moment so I wonder if his mind is a bit busy to sleep...I’ve also realised that after this dinner at 5 he almost has a second wind so I’m going to try and keep the house calm so that he can unwind a bit....I’m also tempted to get him in his cot earlier because he’s taking about an hour to settle at night so I thought if he was in his cot for 6.30 he’d hopefully be asleep by 7.30 so then maybe the 6am start wouldn’t make him so tired?

Yes worth a shot with the early bedtime- would be interested to see if it makes a difference! It feels a lot to me like when my little one was learning to crawl/walk and was desperate to sleep but it was like she couldn't help herself, she just had to stay up practising her new skills! It's like a biological urge that even overrides their need for sleep. Feels a bit like that with the language development atm - she seems to settle for 5 minutes but then all I can hear on the monitor is mumumumum, dadadadad and GAT!!! (whilst frantically waving her Mog toy 🥴). I think it's all just a perfect storm atm, hoping it will calm down eventually without much intervention - once they get used to it being a bit light at bedtime/bird noise/having words!

Here we go again. Shouting and chatting 20 mins so far x

My DS is 15 months. Up between 7:30-9, nap 11-1ish. Sometimes naps again 3-4, if he doesn't have this nap he still goes in his cot for a lay down at this point. Bath 6 and sleep by 6:30-7... ready to do it all again tomorrow!

My dd’s sleep is a bit off at the moment owing to the last few teeth coming through but her regular pattern is as follows:

Awake - 7/7.30 (weekdays)
Breakfast - 8.15
Lunch at creche - 11.30
Nap - 12-1
Tea: 3.30
Small meal/large snack - 6
Bed 7.45-8.15

Our DD is also 18 months old, also needed a ton of sleep. Whenever she has trouble settling in the evening/early wake ups it’s almost always teeth! She woke at 4am this morning, I gave her calpol and straight back to sleep. Otherwise she chats for an hour and eventually goes back to sleep. If she wakes up before 6 we don’t treat it like a wake up, normally just leave her to settle. Also 100% use white noise! We still do for DD, I have also been wary of any sleep crutches but I struggled to see how it could be a problem long term.

We also leave DD window shut because of noise, thinking about getting an air conditioner. A fan could solve white noise and make it cooler!