sleeps for a 13 month old?

Ava still sleeps ALOT! She goes to bed at 7pm and wakes at around 6.30am.

Her morning sleep is 10am - 11.30am and her afternoon sleep is 3-4pm.

The teachers at daycare think she sleeps too much and want to try her on 1 sleep a day (at 11.30am)

IS she sleeping too much?

Ella has always had a high sleep requirement and at that age would have a couple of hrs in the morning and another couple of hrs in the afternoon, so I would personally just leave it. You will soon find that she will start to push out the morning sleep later and later until the 2 sleeps merge into 1. Even now at 2.3 months Ella still sleeps for 3 hrs during the day

NO, my boys are the same age & they sleep SO much (more than any other bubs I know their age):

They sleep:
7pm - 7.30am
9.30 - 11.00am
1.30 - 3.30/4

Jacob's only recently starting to change and sleep a bit less than Eli by about 1/2hr. They've always been amazing sleepers & every time I go to the Paed or Plunket I mention it and ask if there is anything I should look out for i.e. is this normal and I always get 'you're lucky & it's nothing to be concerned about'.

So join the lucky club & enjoy it while it lasts :)

kebakat wrote: Nah, if it aint broke don't fix it I say. She will drop it when shes ready

What she said.

I'm with the other girls. I was still trying for 2 sleeps when Blair was 15 months but he ended up casually dropping his morning one. He can sometimes sleep 2 - 3 hours an afternoon at 2, at 2pm as we have a lateish dinner so we can all eat together (and Daniel often gets a sleep at the same time, so I get me time)

Sounds pretty normal to me, so i would leave her be, she will drop a sleep when she is ready.
Caden dropped his morning sleep at about 12 months old, and now he just does one middle of the day sleep, he generally goes down at 11 or 12ish and sleeps anywhere from 2-3 hours or more.

sleeping too much????? what on earth is wrong with that?

Charli-Rose, who's just about 13 months, has 2 days sleep of 1-2 hours each and then goes down at 7 (though lately shes been awake til 8.30) and sleeps til 7 or 7.30 the next day.

To be fair, it is annoying sometimes as it doesn't give us that much time during the day to arrange appointments and errands around, but to be honest I like having two breaks during the day. I do get pressure from a few people (mainly my mother) about dropping it down to one sleep but really if bubs is happy and I on the whole am happy with it, then I don't want to force her into one sleep. It will happen naturally when she's ready too.

Seriously, that's definitely not too much sleep!!!!!

In preschool it can be less convenient for a toddler to have two sleeps but it should be whats right for YOUR baby, not whats fits better for them, so if I were you I would say "No, if she wants two sleeps during the day, then she can have them. i see no need to chage it when she is not ready".

Trust me, Ava will show you when she's ready. One sign is if after her arvo sleep, she stop going down at 7 and insists on being up til 9/10pm. Another is her simply not falling to sleep during one of her sleeps!

Why would they want you to drop a sleep - I think thats madness, if she wasn't sleeping all night then maybe but nope sounds all good to me. She'll drop it whens shes good and ready.

I am dreading DS dropping his morning nap, when would I shower/get dressed