(written Sunday evening. I know, I'm cheating!)
Let's start with E. E is now 13 months old and has been taking two naps a day since she was about 9 months old (before that, she took four naps a day. i know, that's a LOT but she took cat naps). Her naps have varied in length from about 25 minutes to 2.5 hours, with her morning one usually being about 45 minutes and her afternoon one about 2 hours. I know that she's been moving towards just one nap a day for awhile, as her morning nap is getting later and later (from 8:30am to now 10am), but this is ridiculous. Today, she went down at 10am and woke up at 11:30am, and then refused to nap at all the rest of the day. My husband even put her down at around 2:30pm for a nap and she just laid in her crib and played for 1.5 hours. She was a bear at bedtime, but I'm not sure she's totally ready for one nap a day yet. So, do I put her down at her normal 10am nap time tomorrow, or do I push it back until after her lunch (after 11am) so that she only takes one nap tomorrow? Ugh, I just don't know what to do.
Then there's L. We put her to bed around 7:15-7:30pm. She usually wakes up from her afternoon nap around 3-3:30pm, so this gives her ample time to run around before she goes down for the night. Tonight, we put her down at 7:15pm and she didn't go to sleep until 8:45pm. She always seems to lay in bed for almost 45-60 minutes every night before she goes to bed. Does this mean she needs a later bedtime? Earlier nap? Oh, I wish there was a manual for all this stuff so I'd know what to do instead of experimenting. Something tells me it's going to be a long week in the sleep department...
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