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Right now it is 2:00pm and Judah is in his room playing. We've been having challenges with Judah's sleeping schedule. Basically, he doesn't want to sleep. He's so social that he doesn't want to miss a minute of fun. Whenever anyone is over or we're at someone's house he'll stay up as late as we're there without acting tired or fussy or grumpy. He's such an extrovert!
So anyway, he doesn't like to go to sleep. If he stays in his room he'll play with his toys. If I threaten him and make him stay in his bed he'll talk and sing. Even when Eric lays down with him it will take him up to an hour to fall asleep because he has fun with his Papa. When I lay down with him I close my eyes and don't respond to him...not as much fun.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to get a 2.5 year old to fall asleep, I'm all ears! We've tried laying with him (which can be frustrating if you have things you need to do), spanking, standing at the door saying "lay down Judah." One lady suggested to Eric to get a kitchen timer and give him 10 minutes to play. When it goes off lay down with him for 5 minutes. When it goes off again leave the room and make him go to sleep by himself. Eric wants to give that a try.
I've already started looking up crib tents for our little climbing monkey (aka Samuel) to keep him in his crib for as looonnnggg as possible. It's so much easier when they can't get out. Samuel has no choice but to go to sleep. :)
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Morgan, Maybe he doesn't need to actually nap anymore and just have a quiet time. Hannah stopped napping when she was 20 months, Vincenzo when he was about Judah's age and Kinza was almost three. I just made them sit and rest on their bed for 30 minutes to an hour. I didn't care if they stayed awake, they just had to stay on their bed. If they are getting enough sleep at night (10 - 12 hours) that might be the "problem" they don't need more sleep during the day. I did the same thing your doing When Vincenzo was that age then realized that except on cell nights, he was getting 10 - 12 hours at night and that was all the sleep he needed. We also made sure to be home by 8:30 the rest of the week so his schedule wouldn't be messed up. The nice thing is that in the middle of the day, we didn't need to worry about him missing a nap if we were out and about. Just a thought. Good Luck with whatever you do.
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Morgan, sorry you are having difficulties with Judah and sleep. Brianna also gives us a hard time most nights. What works best for her is to give her plenty of time warnings. "Brianna, 10 minutes and you go to bed." and then again in a couple minutes and so on until it's time to put her in her room. Good luck figuring out what works best for Judah.
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Halle still loves her bed, but she also can't see anything at night to keep her stimulated...blackout curtain on her window and a fan on, it's pitch black and a little white noise and she's down. Maybe you could try to take some of Judah's toys out of his room, or put them away before nap time. Or maybe your friend is right and he's done with naps...I would really hate for that to be the case, for your sake of course!
ReplyDeleteLove the new layout! Of course, no advice from me on the sleeping situation...I hope you figure it out, though, because I might be asking YOU in 2 1/2 years..haha!
ReplyDeleteno idea how to keep him in bed... and I am so getting a crib tent... lore is already up at night playing... can't imagine if she could get out of her bed what she would do lol...
ReplyDeleteI remember when Caden would do the exact same thing, I had no idea what to do, so I tried pushing back his nap/bed time and he started falling asleep instantly. It might be that he's just not tired yet.
ReplyDeleteYeah um, no advise here. Tonight Mattie would not go to bed so she fell asleep in the play pen . . .
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