Exhausting!
This past week was EXHAUSTING!!!
Lily has decided to ditch her second nap.
Yup! You heard me right, she is only taking 1 nap throughout her 13-14 hour day.
What 10 month old only takes 1 nap a day?
AND…. It wouldn’t be so bad if it at least was a 2 hour nap but NO, it isn’t. It’s only a 45-60 minute nap.
All I hear from the other parents is how their babies (Lily’s age) take three 2 hour naps. Or two 2 hour naps. One 2 hour nap!
Only 1 nap a day is EXHAUSTING!!!!
is she counting how many naps she will take? NO! is she counting how many possible ways she can exhaust me? YES!
Katherine
September 10, 2010 @ 6:05 pm
OMG whats UP with that?? Everly is doing the same thing!! Ill put her down for one of her routine naps and for one of them she just talks and babbles right through!
This week though I have been trying the 1 long nap thing.
She wakes up around 8, has breakfast, plays until noon, has a bottle and is down to sleep by 1230. Yesterday we got a 2 hour nap from her, Im anxious to see how today goes.
The good thing is that we pull bedtime down almost a half hour earlier and she is so tuckered out by then she barely even whines when she goes down.
I didnt think it started so early with the weaning off 2 naps but some of my friends with babies the same age are seeing the same patterns.
Oh the joys!
Desiree
September 11, 2010 @ 3:34 pm
Adelaide started her 1 nap around 9 months when she started walking. We skipped the morning nap and put her down around 1 after lunch, she usually slept 1 1/2-2 hours (maybe). Hang in there!
Juliana
September 12, 2010 @ 2:33 am
Hehe, I know about the nap thing. Luna typically takes two or sometimes three naps. They’re short, sometimes long. No predictability here. But she does sleep twelve or thirteen hours every night.
It sounds like Lily just doesn’t need as much sleep as other babies. Does she seem extra irritable, like she needs the sleep?
I understand though … Luna’s nap times means I get free time :).
Claudia
September 12, 2010 @ 11:22 am
@Juliana,
exactly, nap time means mommy time and that’s been tremendously cut down!
she just doesn’t need as much sleep i guess. she does sleep 10-11 hours straight through the night so i really shouldn’t complain.
allie
September 22, 2010 @ 8:05 pm
i love that last picture, hilarious! i get so flustered when henry skips one of his naps. especially because i know he’ll be a crazy stinker later on in the evening. hope she starts napping twice again!
Claudia
September 23, 2010 @ 1:38 am
@Allie,
she’s so all over the place with her naps. today she slept for 2.5 hours. of course i had to be right next to her.