I put a question mark because I'm not even sure if there's an issue. Just wanted to get feedback. My daughter is down to one nap for about 2 hours, maybe. She doesn't go down immdeiately but sits in her crib and "reads" a book for a while before going to sleep. We're putting her down to bed around 7:30 and she gets up around 6am most days. This morning it was 5am. She seems to be extremely active and sometimes crabby in the middle of the morning and the end of the day, but if you try to put her down for a nap before 11:30am, nothing happens. She just sits there, cries for a bit, and hangs out until you come and get her. She's my second and as I said, very, very, very active. Eats a lot and is just everywhere. I don't like getting up at 6am, and would love for her to stay asleep longer, but if she's up she's up.
I guess I just want to get some feed back of how anyone else get's their active babies to sleep a little more, or if you think I could induce sleep when she gets cranky, or even if you think everything seems normal. She's just different from her older sister and trying to get a feel for her normal ad need other's opinions. Thanks
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I agree with Shannon, I don't think there is a problem, but I understand how you feel! I have 16 month old twins and they are pretty much on the same schedule that you described. The only thing I can suggest is putting her to bed earlier. Someone told me to do this with my kiddos and it usually helps. It seems like the later they stay up at night, the less quality sleep they get that night and the next day, in my experience.
As a mother of five kiddos, I can tell you that all of my children have gone through this at one point or another. I don't think she has a problem at all. She sounds like she is very well adjusted and can get herself to sleep without help--that is wonderful. A baby at this age needs 10-12 hours of sleep each 24 hour period. Most of my babies have been slightly fussy in the late morning and early evening as well but nothing I have changed about their routines seemed to help this. What seems to help more than anything is to distract them with toys that have been on a shelf for awhile, reading a few of their favorite books to them, rocking them, or dancing with them to soft music. I hope this helps!
Sounds like my son. I think she's fine -- she's getting 13 hours of sleep per day. When my son was about 2 1/2, he stopped taking naps altogether, except for the occasional 15 to 30 mins. in the car -- maybe he slept an hour longer at night. My sincere advice...see if you can nap a bit when she does, so you can keep up with her the rest of the day, unless that's your older child's time. Otherwise, the only thing you can do to sleep in a little in the a.m. is to push her bedtime back to 8:00 or 8:30.
It sounds pretty normal to me :)
You can try to adjust her nap schedule to see if that helps with her night time sleep. I always try to hold my kids nap off until after lunch (usually about 12:30) and bedtime is about 8:00. I think they just go through phases where they decide that want to make us question everything we THINK we know :)
