Late nap, late bedtime

Okay I do not know what to do. My almost 3 year old is down to one nap and once in a while, he can be just fine skipping his nap, but for the most part when he skips his nap, he ends up falling asleep around 4:30pm and I cannot wake him up for at least an hour, which ends up pushing his bedtime until 10 o'clock, which results in him sleeping in to around 7:30 or 8 AM. How do I get us out of this loop or is this just the one nap/no nap limbo that will eventually resolve itself as he's able to stay awake all day?

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We are going through the exact situation. My almost 3 year old fell asleep on the couch for an hour 4-5pm.
I’m not worried about it, it will resolve itself.

We’ve been dealing with this for a year with sometimes a nap but often no nap. Occasionally this messes everything up but we got really good at keeping her awake and giving her a bath if she’s about to fall asleep early 😂 so it does resolve itself but you might have to be proactive if it’s too close to bedtime.

I put my little girl down by 4:30 or 5:30 if she does not take a nap and let her sleep through the night. She will still wake up close to 6:30 or 7 in the morning.

Try waking at the same time every day. Letting him sleep in is just getting you stuck in this cycle.

Same boat with mine

I have been nursing her since she was a baby so, when she wakes, I just nurse her back to sleep. Or I rub her back and then she is back down. Sometimes she wakes up for a little while and I will say are you hungry or thirsty? If she is we eat but I remind her it is not playtime. So lights stay out. After she eats we lay back down.

Oh wow. I am weaning her two too. I try to offer her milk 3 times a day only right now but since she has dropped her midday nap I may just nurse her twice a day or drop it to once a day.

Thanks for posting this. Same exact situation over here. No advice just commiseration. My guy stopped napping entirely at about 2.5 yrs exactly. Lately though, he wakes up around 8 but then has been sleepy enough to fall asleep on the couch or the car by 4 or 5 on a lot of days. But then he wakes up at 8pm or so all disgruntled, then gets his second wind and will refuse sleep until occasionally even after midnight.

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

Help! First time mum -

I have a 4 month old and now all of a sudden when he’s been asleep for 1hr30/2hrs he will wake up screaming (high pitched) I’ve tried winding him sometimes that helps, I’ve tried bicycle legs & bringing his knees up but that doesn’t seem to help but he brings his knees up himself sometimes but nothing happens. I’ve noticed since the 4 month mark he has started to struggle passing wind downwards! Any tips?

Help meeee

!!All advice welcome!! My 5 month old (nearly 6mo) is just not sleeping . Not for naps and not at night . She can’t connect her cycles . We started sleep regression at 3 months but in like how is this nearly been going on for a further 3 months . Like surely not . She has 10 min naps in crib ( which take so much effort ) and maybe 20/30 min naps in my arms/pushchair . She wakes minimum every hour at night with guaranteed false start 20 mins in . I combo feed. I breastfeed her until almost asleep then place her in the next to me crib give her the pacifier and put my hand on her cheek/face for 20 seconds and she drifts off . It’s not really getting her to sleep that’s the issue it’s she just won’t stay asleep . She doesn’t even need to feed much at night usually 1-2 breastfeeds . The rest is comfort wakes needing her pacifier or my hand on her cheek . I’ve looked into sleep associations and independent sleep and I broke the feed to sleep association and rocking and do bedside comforting instead for most wakes which has now lead to my hand being a sleep association on her face . I’m just so exhausted my husband is working mon-fri 9-9 and it’s just me . I haven’t had more than 4 hours in a row since her birth . I can’t get anything done during the day . She is so clingy and cries if I leave room /put her down etc. I love her so much but we both need rest . If anyone has any tips or a routine that could help PLEASE tell me I’ll try anything 🥲❤️❤️

Feeds

How many times a night are your little ones getting up? My daughter is every 90-110 minutes. I am absolutely exhausted and don’t know how much more I can cope

Over supply of milk

I am nearly 5weeks postpartum and I have such a big over supply of BM.
Has anyone donated / sold their supply, if so where do you recommend for this?

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time