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Refusing nap🥴

My little one is a great sleeper/napper and has been this way for months now. She has 2 naps a day and always sleeps for 1/1.5 hours each time. This afternoon however, that did not happen😫 She slept for about 20/25 mins and woke up so upset. She screamed for a further 40 mins despite me trying to calm her. I even tried rocking her back to sleep to see if I could save the nap but she was having none of it. I’ve given up now and we’re back in the lounge playing but I can see she’s tired. It may sound silly but I’ve not had this problem before - would you put your little one to bed earlier tonight or try and hold them out til normal time? I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging that I have a great sleeper!! Especially as I know so many mums out there are struggling with sleep, but this really isn’t a problem I’ve had to overcome before and not sure how to tackle this tonight as she is already cranky AF🫠🫠🫠🫠

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Ah, this is my life. As we have no consistency with nap lengths I tend to stick strictly to wake windows. So I would bring the bedtime forward in our world.

@Shella W Thank you! I’ve been really fortunate that my little one has a pretty solid routine and doesn’t often stray from it so today has thrown a right spanner in the works! I will likely bring bedtime forward a little tonight!!Xx

Good luck ☺️

Mine has been doing this for a few weeks now his nighttime sleep has suddenly become awful too😮‍💨. I've been putting him to bed a bit earlier since he's been missing his afternoon nap. Today though he's skipped his morning nap but had his afternoon nap, but it was 3.5 hours long and tbh I've just left him to sleep. Usually I'd wake him if it's too long but he's barely been sleeping and I can see how tired he is every day. He's also full of a cold ATM so I think he really needed it. Hope your LO settles ok for you tonight x

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