For a few weeks now, Adelyn has been resisting her morning nap. But I’ve been holding onto it because I love having two breaks during the day where I can get stuff done. Sometimes she’d just talk to herself for 45 minutes in her crib, but I didn’t want to go down to one nap quite yet.
This week she started sleeping in later in the morning, causing us to have to push her morning nap back about 30 minutes, so I just decided that she might be ready to go down to one nap per day. So far, it is not going well.
Day 1: Adelyn wakes up at 8am. Yay! I decide that today is the day for one nap. So we eat breakfast, play, and go to Going Bonkers with some friends to kill some time until “naptime”, which I’m not even sure when it will be. Probably sometime around noon, I think. So after we get home, we eat lunch, and I put Addie down for a nap, which she resists. Maybe she’s overtired. Or maybe she’s just 15 months old, and that’s what she’s supposed to do. She sleeps for an hour and a half. Well, that’s okay, but that’s how long her naps were when she had 2 naps per day, equalling 3 hours of sleeping. Oh well, I’m sure she’ll learn how to sleep longer than 1.5 hours soon.
Day 2: Again she wakes up at 8. Good job! Zac is out of town, so mommy gets to sleep in with Addie this week. We go to the mall this morning to play on the playground there with some friends. She is pretty tired by the time we get home, so she goes to bed around noon again. Once again, she sleeps an hour and a half. Hmmmm, maybe it wasn’t a fluke last time. Or maybe I still need to be putting her down for another 1.5 hour nap. We’ll keep trying.
Day 3 (today): Wakes up earlier this morning: 7:30. What am I going to do with her for 4.5 hours when it is SNOWING outside?? Yes folks, it has snowed all day here. Which is fine, if I had any sort of snow gear for her to wear. Which I don’t. Which means we cannot go outside. At all. So I put her down a little early, 11:50am. I’m confident she will sleep at least 2 hours, she is really tired. 12:25, she awakes, screaming. Really? 35 minutes today?
I went up to soothe her twice, and right now (12:55), she is quiet, so I’m praying that she fell asleep. The poor girl needs her sleep, and her poor mommy needs her to sleep. I can’t imagine why I am doing this while Zac is out of town for 2 weeks straight (in Hawaii no less). Lucky him. I’m sure we will get through this transition phase just fine, but right now I’m doubting, just a little. Wish me luck! We want to see less sad baby and more of this:
2.11.2010
I know how rough the one nap transition is but it will get better. Listen to your mommy gut and what your baby is trying to tell you. For us, Paisley didn’t make up the lost morning nap in the afternoon which maybe what your little one is doing too. It took Paisley a little while to figure everything out and at 20 months we STILL struggle with sleep. The past two days there has been NO nap… just playing in the cirb for an hour. Do what works for you and your family no matter what any book or person says!
2.11.2010
Oh man, good luck! I have no advice but please keep us posted on how it turns out so I can use your tips down the road when we’re in the same boat!!