Sleep for 1yo

ooooh i now that routine so well, lol.
Daycare was noticing it was hard to get Ayja to sleep, so we started holding her out and not giving the morning sleep.. she could still have her bottle or milk drink at 10-ish when she usually would have gone down - it gave her a bit of quiet rest time while she drunk it, but we only gave her about 50 mls, as usually about 11.15 i would give her an early lunch, and put her to bed at 11.30 - meant that she got a big sleep in the afternoon for a couple of hours. It takes a bit for them to adjust, and yep we notice that when Ayja's getting tired the fights and mischief can get very unbearable, so for a week or so i was glad that daycare was mostly handling this transition, but she is now great, has 1 sleep a day, but it's good sleep, for usually 2 hours or 3 or more if shes really tired. plus over the last few months the time has become more flexible and she goes to bed at about 12 now, it means she co-incides with paris's sleep time when at home too now meaning.. ahhhh, peace. lol.

Edited by mum2paris

I must say I am going through a bit of a stage with Lachlan at the moment too. He copes really well when he want go down for his afternoon sleep and when its time for bed at night he is out like a light - but man it's a long time for him to be up when he wakes at 11.30ish and not going to bed until 7.30pm.

I'm thinking hell he's not 1 yet and he's trying to drop a sleep. His morning sleep is about and hour and a half. I tried this morning to drag him out but he was tired so put him to bed. Put him down at 3.30pm this afternoon and he's asleep - go figure. He's not going to get long though as I will have to wake him up so he goes down at bedtime.

I so can relate to you busymum although I only have one to worry about not three!!

Sorry don't really have any suggestions still trying to work it out myself.

I hear what you are saying as that is what it has been like for us this week. Every second day he has had his two naps. Although I must say he lasts really well and isn't grizzly with it when he misses his arvo sleep, think it is more frustrating for the mummy.

I wonder if it's this weather as another friend of mine is experiencing the same with her wee girl (same age as Lockie), strange how they starting doing it around the same time. Wishful thinking on my behalf!!

Well yesterday got two 1 1/2 sleeps out of my boy. I wonder what today will hold. It certainly helped matters as I had a birthday cake to prepare!!!

I must say this has taken me by surprise too Kat, but I think that's because Hannah was 2 before she dropped her morning sleep. She still sleeps once a day for an hour and a half or so.

Okay advice dear ladies .................

I still put Lockie in his safety sleep but I am finding that as he is fighting his sleeps at the moment he gets wound up and rolls in it and onto his tummy which obviously frustrates him as he can't seem to roll back the other way. So do I:

a) wean him off the safety sleep and then see if he goes to sleep on his own accord;

b) drop a sleep (which I don't think I want to do right now), and put him down later;

c) just keep trying for those 2 sleeps and see how things go for a bit longer.

I'm getting a little frustrated at the moment as I'm not getting anything down around the house and its a pig sty.