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Just curious… at 19 mths old, how many naps a day is/was your little one taking? And for how long at a stretch?
Here’s my situation:For most of the summer, I was keeping Andrew awake in the AM while taking Elizabeth to swim classes, or grocery shopping, etc. He would nap for a couple of hours around noon/1 PM, but in general wasn’t getting enough sleep (we realized after the fact) and it showed in his frustration levels.Once we realized that, about 2 months ago, I started waking him at 8:15ish, napping him from ~11-1, napping my daughter from 2-4 PM, napping Andrew again from ~5-6 PM…and never leaving the house since someone was always asleep! (Bedtime for both by 9 PM.) That worked well for Andrew and seemed to lessen his frustration levels. He willingly took those naps without crying or a bottle. By the way, he is still waking 2-3 times a night with some sort of pain – not reflux I don’t think, but I’m guessing intestinal gluten-gas pain or teething pain. I’m too sleepy to analyze it – I just nurse him back to sleep if I can’t soothe him any other way.Lately, though, I’ve gotten so tired of always having one of them awake and never having any quiet time for paying bills, doing my part-time home business computer work, etc. So I’ve been letting him sleep till he wakes around 9-9:30, holding him off for a nap until around 2 PM and putting them both down at the same time. Most days he seems OK with that, although some days I can tell that he really should be in bed around 12:30ish. Now that I’ve been doing that for a few days, it seems hard to imagine trying to get him to bed for a morning nap again. Yet, if I give an earlier nap (12:30ish) then he isn’t ready for a second nap, yet an earlier bedtime doesn’t work with our family’s evenings.Thanks for letting me ramble. And thanks for any thoughts you might have about your little one’s naps. I don’t remember how old Elizabeth was when we switched her from two naps to just one. (And as far as I’m concerned, she’ll be taking a nap – or having an afternoon rest period – until she is ‘old and grey’!)
Thanks,DianneDianne 2007-09-28 23:33:02 For my oldest, Kaden, we realized that he needed to go from the 2 naps a day (he was doing 2 hrs in the morning and 2 in the afternoon) to 3-3.5 hr nap once per day by age 13 mos. He will be 3 in Dec and he STILL takes a 2.5-3 hr nap a day! I put him down at 1pm and he sleeps until 3:30-4pm. bedtime is 8:30. Now, my younger baby takes a morning nap (9:00-10:30) and an afternoon nap (same time as Kaden only he wakes earlier).
I’m not sure if that helps any. I just think that for Kaden, by 13mos, he was getting irritated b/c I was putting him down too much and he was doing the sleep/wake thing too much during the day. Once he got used to the 1 nap, the nap got longer and longer and he got up to 3 solid hours.
Good luck. It can get frustrating trying to figure out nap schedules with more than 1 child and LOTS of stuff to do!I can’t help much either- ari is 14 months & still does 2 naps a day
his morning nap is about 1hr and his afternoon one is about 2hrs (sometimes closer to one hr or sometimes even longer than 2hrs)I’m terrible- for the most part, I’m letting the babysitter figure it out
)Abby is 20 months old tomorrow and she has been on one nap for quite a few months now. She gets up around 6:00 (due to my work schedule – sleeps till 7:30 if not woken up) and takes a 2-2 1/2 hour nap in the afternoon starting at roughly 1:00. She goes to bed around 7:30 and is usually asleep between 8:00 and 8:30 (has to play with her dolls in bed for a while). I think all of these kiddos are so very different that I can’t imagine any two of them having anywhere near the same schedule. Have to keep us guessing
Robin
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