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How to make bedtime later...
Hi Ladies!
My 6 mo DD has started wanting to go to bed earlier and earlier. She is a FAB night time sleeper (and i do realise how lucky we are believe me!) and sleeps for 12 or 13 hrs straight through. From 3 months, we made 7pm bed time and she as had no problem with this. I went back to work at 5 months, and she started at nursery.
Now my problem is, she seems to be dropping her afternoon cat nap, and pushing bedtime further and further up. She is asleep already now, and its only 6pm! she has never been a great daytime napper. I usually just read her cues and when the eye-rubbing starts, pick her up and let her doze off in my arms, (heinous, i know) or pop her in her bouncer or car seat and she goes off, but only ever for 30-45 mins at a time. Out current routine is this:
Wake up at 6.45am, solid feed for breakfast plus bottle. She sometimes cat naps on the way to nursery in the car, sometimes not, but has one 30-45 min nap at nursery at 9.30am ish, feeds at 10am, then another 30-45 min nap at 12ish, feeds at 1. I Pick her up at 3.30, she usually naps in the car on the way home,and once home i take her out in her car seat and leave her in there till she wakes up) We get home, have another solid feed, play, then around 5pm she starts the eye rubbing. Now a few times i have tried to put her down for a nap in the usual way, but she has woken up after 30-45 mins and gone completely bezerk until ive put her in her jammies and put her to bed. Like she was disgusted that was a nap and not actual bedtime. I guess my question is, do i persevere with the late nap, and try to push bedtime back to 7 or 7.30pm, even if it means her going nutso? Or do i leave it at 6-6.30 and spend the last hour of the day trying to distract her from how tired she really is?
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