how many hours does your 3 year old sleep in 24 hours?

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Just post your answer. I'm getting worried my DS1 is not getting enough sleep and so want to know if 12 hours is the norm or some book-derived figure. He sleeps from maybe 7.45 p.m. till 6 - 6.30 a.m. I suspect his report card would read "could do better". And he was a textbook 12 hour baby until the birth of DS2 and the room sharing began. So any extra tips you may have regarding improving sleep with that in mind would be appreciated.
Also, he insists on sleeping with the door open now and the light on, and screams in the night if we've closed the door.
Anyone? Anyone?

10 hours here (8-6).

Oh god, I think I'm on the wrong thread! mY DS, 3yrs 7 months, usually goes from 7.15 until 6am- 6.15, but the majority of that is in my bed! We are about to attempt the Jo Frost (supernanny) stay on your own bed routine but am petrified in case I scar him for life. He goes to bed like an angel, bit whimpery but I think he's trying his luck but wakes at 10-10.30pm EVERY night, even when not well and dosed up with Medised. We then have screaming, heart pounding and crying til sick if left. Him not me, can anyone give us some advice? We are also wanting to consider trying for a second bubba, but this is seriously off putting!

Tired but hopeful xx

My DD sleeps 12 1/2 to 13 hours - 6pm til 6.30/7am. Has always loved her sleep

sorry Polly, didn't read your post . don't really know what to suggest but hopefully someone will be along with some good tips.

DS is 3.8 and sleeps loads, always has. At night approx 8.30-7.45am and then has a 2.5-3-hour nap after pre-school.

But DD1 slept much less than this - no nap beyond 2 and a bit, and had no less energy. DD2 was somewhere in between.

pollywatts, I would suggest controlled crying, but he's prob free to wander about by his age, so no idea what else to suggest! I guess the books say to just keep taking back to own bed, however many times and to ride it out for a few nights. Or, maybe wake him up at 9.30 p.m. before the screaming, totally wake him up, put light on even, then that should break the waking?
Get me, the "sleep expert", i.e. OP who requested advice about sleep!

pollywatts - no idea what jo frost´s routine is but ds does sleep at least 8 hours in our bed every night and when he behaves it doesn´t bother me (though does put a damper on sibling potential!) but when he kicks off the covers and generally makes a nuisance of himself its awful. we haven´t taken any steps to break this habit but are considering a star chart kind of thing. though to be honest i think sleeping with mummy and daddy is a bigger prize than a lightning mcqueen sticker

I think if you want them to sleep in their own bed, its going to take about three nights of consistently and calmly returning to their own bed. There will be a lot of crying and you will have to keep the end goal in sight! good luck!

9:30pm - 8am and 1-2 hours nap. I feel he is chronically over-tired from not reliably napping these days. He has had a few rage issues when nursery weren't telling us he hadn't napped and we were letting him stay up to his usual bedtime.

ds sleeps from around 7.30pm to somewhere between 6.30 and 7am - he has an alarm clock that is supposed to say 7:00 before he can come through but he can get up for the toilet if needed.

Pollywatts, if your lo has been in your bed I would probably suggest gradual retreat rather then controlled crying i.e. put him to bed and sit in the room but with no eye contact and work on getting him to sleep without being in contact with you. Once he is doing that you can work on moving further away and then eventually out of the room

Mine is 3.1 and sounds simliar. He sleeps 7.45 p.m. till 6.30 a.m as well which is nowhere near enough, but he doesnt nap any more. DS2 was born nearly 5 months ago, and they dont share, but they are only about 3m away from each other across the hall so DS2 wakes him up when he cries.
Also since he was born, he has a major fit if we close his door (seemingly even if we do it when he's asleep, it wakes him up and he starts yelling) and keeps asking us to sit outside whilst he goes to sleep. Never did that before.

for anyone looking for advice/ideas from this thread, I've been slowly bringing bedtime forward with my 3 year old since I posted this thread. He went down at the back of seven last night, first time it's been that early in a long time, adn was up becuase not well, but straight back to sleep and slept through till normal time(6.15). So it seems that bringing th sleeptime forward works better, as, as someone already posted, it doesn't seem viable to get them to sleep later in the morning! thanks for all info, been interesting too.

7.30 to 07.45. No nap in day, but sometimes wish he would. We have a gro clock. Best £35 I ever spent. The first words from DS every morning are 'the sun is up on my clock'. He knows not to get up before that. I am a rock hard no 'reward' for waking up type mum tho.