To wake or not to wake?

Would she go down a bit earlier in the afternoon? Her routine is similar to Ashleigh's except her morning sleep is only an hour or so. And she has her afternoon sleep at 2 for normally 1.5 hrs and goes to bed at 7. If not, then yes I would definately wake her

put her down earlier than 3.30....
or maybe she is ready for one nap, and is thinking her second nap is bed time.? you could try one nap - she may just make it a good long one.

Hi, Briona at 17mos was sleeping from 8.30-10 and then 12-3 or something like that I can't quite remember. And down for bed at 6.30pm (dinner at 5.30). So I wouldn't say that "high sleep needs", but remember all kiddies are different.

Anyway to answer your question, I was going to say what KH25 did. See if you can get the afternoon sleep a bit earlier (3, then 2.30), otherwise yea wake her for dinner and after a few days she'll probably get into routine nicely.

I would probably say wake her. With both our girls around this age we went for the 2 sleeps a day until they weaned themselves down to one (partially instigated by daycare)

they would wake around 7, go back to bed about 9.30/10 am, wake again after an hour. have play and lunch around 12 and be down back in bed by 1pm/1.30 at the latest. We would then wake them, as a rule, at 3.30 pm if they hadn't already woken, 4 at the very latest if we knew thay hadn't gone to sleep till later... otherwise it made the nights very long and disorganised.

5/5.30 was dinner, bath after that, bottle/bf then bed at 6.30.. by then, they had been up for around 3 hours or just over, and yes they had shorter day sleeps, but made up for it by having a good routine that has carried on.. they still go to bed at 7pm now, both of them. once they went to 1 day sleep we moved the lunch forward, usually lunch was 11/11.30ish, and in bed by 12/12.30 depending on when they woke. Still staying with the 3.30pm wake up time if they hadn't woken themselves.

We still do that now.