16 month old sleep schedule

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Could anyone share their 16mo sleep schedules with me? Would be interested to see. Also, how long before their bedtime do you actually pop them in their cot so that they are asleep for their bedtime? My lo can take quite a while to fall asleep at the moment so often 40 mins in cot before asleep.

My 16 month old wakes between 6 and 7 in the morning. She goes up for a nap at 10:15 and is asleep by 10:30, wakes up between 11:30 and 11:45. I then put her down again at 3pm and she usually has between half an hour and an hour, but about once a week she doesn't go to sleep and just lays there babbling. I then take her up to bed between 6:30 and 7:30 depending on how the last nap went. Sometimes she falls asleep within a couple of minutes and other times up to an hour!

I think she is getting ready to move to one nap, and if we've got something planned then I do sometimes put her down at 11am and she'll sleep until 1ish. I then put her to bed around 6:30.

At this age of be expecting either

11h overnight plus 3-4h of daytime naps (1 or 2 naps)
Or
12h overnight plus 2-3h daytime naps (1 or 2 naps)
Or
10h overnight plus two naps of 1.5-2h

Daytime naps usually want awake times of 2h-3h-4h (or there abouts) for 2-nap days. For 1-nap days, keep the morning awake time about 1-2h shorter than afternoon awake time.

If baby is able to self settle, id expect baby to fall asleep within 10 mins on average (might be 5-15 minutes, depending on the day).

If baby us taking longer than this to settle, the most probable reason is not able to adequately self settle yet and is still learning. Next most likely is over tired. Could also be that routine needs tweaking. It's possible but highly unlikely yo be under tiredness at this age.

My 16mo DD wakes at about 7 each morning, sometimes later if the house is quiet. She has one nap at around 12/12.30. Mon to Fri at the childminder's she usually only naps for an hour, at home on the weekends it'll be 2-2.5 hours. She's usually in bed at 6.50pm and asleep by 7, despite the chaos and noise her brother creates in the room next door!

The j you @AugustSeptemberOctober that's really useful to see. The two to one nap transition is so hard! He would be fine if he didn't wake so early!

@FATEdestiny I think you have replied to a few of my posts so thank you. Sadly your timings are miles away from what we would ever be able to achieve 🤣 or that would be realistic for our little man.

I'm just wondering if I need to pop him down in his cot later. We currently pop him down at 6.40 (occasionally 6.30) as he is so hyper come bedtime and it's taking him ages to fall asleep. I figured better to do that and avoid overtiredness but it can take him an hour to fall asleep. Do you think I'm better off just doing a later bath and then put in his cot at 6.50?

How is he going to sleep?

For that time he is in the cot but not asleep, what is happening to get him to go to sleep?

@FATEdestiny he is just relaxing sucking his thumb rolling around. He sucks his thumb to get to sleep. We are not in there with him.

So he's not crying or agitated or distressed in any way? He's just lying there and relaxing before going to sleep?

@FATEdestiny that's correct. He is very happy in there. Zero crying.

Maybe he just likes/needs that wind-down time to go to sleep. If he isn't making you know he doesn't like it, I wouldn't change anything.

6am wake up
10.30/11am nap. Usually about an hour, lucky if it’s 1.5 hours (HOW do you folks get these huge naps out of your kids 😆)
6/6.30pm bedtime

He doesn’t usually wake at night so I’m guessing that’s why he’s a short napper in the day. He’s more likely to grow wings and fly than take a second nap 🤣

Hey there!! Also interested in this - appreciate this thread is over 6 months old so just seeing if I can revive it!

My 16m old has only ever slept 9/10hrs overnight (not without waking I might add).

He currently wakes around 5.30-6.30 every morning and naps at 12. He has 2.5 hours (I wake at 2.30) but he’d sleep longer if I let him.

I’m then aiming for a bedtime of 8pm. I’ve NO idea if this is right. Sometimes his overtired signs and under tired signs are the same… so it’s literally a stab in the dark.

So much of what I read says bedtime of 7pm of this age is more appropriate…….

Any thoughts? Would this help him sleep a little longer overnight? Do I cut the nap or let him sleep?