My little girl has been an amazing sleeper right from the start. Always able to sleep through the night, and soothe herself to sleep when put in crib awake.
She is in bed every night between 7:30 and 8pm... and usually crashes within 15 minutes of being put down...
For the past week though, she has been staying up later and later. We still put her in her crib at same time (between 7:30 and 8:30), but we'll hear her in her room quietly singing or talking or bouncing, etc.... She never cries out or gets hysterical at all, just playing in there in the dark for at least an hour! Usually after an hour we'll go and get her and just let her stay up with us and play... been putting her down again around 10ish, but she'd still probably stay up later if we'd let her!
I have noticed she has some more teeth coming in.. not sure if just K9's or molars... could this have anything to do with it? Is it just a stage? Any advice on how to get her back to her 8-8:30 bedtime??
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Different stages for sleeping.. my son at 23 months decided that he was done with his crib and we have had bed time issues at times ever since. This week we cracked the wip and stopped laying with him.. two nights down and two nights I have had a chance to see my husband.. it is really nice. If she is not fussing.. leave her ..she will go to sleep.
Is she still taking 2 naps a day? If so, it is time to cut down to one nap. If not, don't worry about her playing in her bed for a long time, sounds to me like she is amusing herself.
Don't go and get her and play with her. Bed time is bed time.You will set up bad habits. My song switched to a slightly later bed time at this age (about 15 minutes later).
This is a wonder period. They stop sleeping as well right before major developmental leaps. Get ready, this is a big one. They can come out of this leap singing, counting, talking nonstop, jumping, trying to skip, etc. Some will also stop napping consistently.
She's getting older and her bedtime is way too early for her age, unless she gets up at 5-6am she is starting to show you she needs less sleep. i would say bump bedtime back by half an hour and see how that goes. My kids never went to bed before 9pm, ever.
We have a life and enjoy many activities that occur in the evenings. We just did the 2 naps per day until they were around a year old then once they were down to a good 2-3 hour nap per day they just naturally went to bed around 9. It works good for us since then get up regularly around 7am now. When school is out the wake up naturally around 8-9.
If she's not putting up a fuss, why the worry?
Leave her in her bed when you put her down at 8. She'll eventually go out.
I'm w/Gamma G.
I had to adjust my toddler's bedtime to a later time since he would have one 2 hr nap at that time.
He would get up at 7or 8 am one 2 hr nap, go to bed at 9:30pm.
I had to make sure he was active during the day so he would be tired.
I went with what worked for us since I was a SAHM & he didn't need to
get up early for daycare or for me to get to work early.
He has varied his sleep schedule several times due to lack of activity during the day, sickness, teething etc.
I say just roll w/what her body indicates. Letting her stay up later than her 7:30-8:30 bedtime. Maybe a wee bit early for her activity level.
Hope that helps. :)
My kids do that quite a bit. She is getting to the age that she is realizing it is fun to play for a while. I don't think there is much you can do, but I think you could create other problems later on if you keep letting her get up with you. If she isn't upset I would just let her have her "alone" time and she will eventually fall asleep.
