Hi all 😊
Just trying to do a bit of research on naps!
DS is 19m next week and for the last 3 weeks his sleep has been awful again - he’s never been the best and it’s always quite up and down but we’d got into a good place of either sleeping through or one quick wake up.
He is still rocked to sleep (which is something I’d like to stop soon but that’s a whole other issue 😂) and goes to bed at around 8pm, getting up anywhere between 6 and 7am.
For the last 3 weeks (18m regression perhaps?) he has woken in the night but then on getting him back to sleep, he wakes every single time I try and put him down in the cot, even when he seems fast asleep. Also when he wakes, he is standing up and screaming - there’s not even an attempt at getting himself back off like he used to.
He usually naps at around 12.30 for an hour and a half but on two occasions this week, he napped at about 10am for an hour and a half/2 hours and on those nights (having gone to bed at 7.30pm), he’s woken and shouted a little but stayed lying down and got himself back to sleep again within a couple of minutes so I haven’t had to get up and go into him!
Everything I read suggests toddlers his age need a lunchtime nap or a later one but could it be his early napping is the answer?! Just wondered if anyone else has an early napper? xx