My baby is 20 months and we had always had the same bed time routine. He has dinner around 7pm, then he gets a bath at 8 pm and a bottle at 8:30 and then I brush his teeth and i lay him down by 9pm. After he gets layed down, it takes him 30 mins to an hour sometimes to fall asleep. Sometimes he gets layed down earlier, and still takes him a long time to fall asleep. He tosses and turns and sits up then lays back down and looks around and and and! He could be tired, extra tired, a little tired and it doesn’t matter how tired he is, he fights it!! He wakes up at 8 am every day, he has a bottle then breakfast and around 11:00 he has lunch and takes a nap around 12 pm and naps about 3 hours or less. He wakes up and we play and we spend all afternoon either at the park or the mall. Any tips are appreciated!
The nap is the problem. Both of my kids dropped their naps around 18 months. If you’re going to let him nap I would cap it at 45 minutes/1 hour
The nap is way too long! I would not let him nap more than one hour max.
No naps. And please get him off the bottle.
Yes nap less time and then supper by 6 bath at 7 n bed by 8. My 2 yr old grandson is on that schedule . And does good . Very little lighting when putting to bed .
Dinner is too late, sometimes being heavy doesn’t let you sleep
Cut the nap time, maybe 1 hour and hour and a half, also maybe he is eating to late , try to feed him a little bit earlier
the nap is too long & the bottle is unnecessary.
1 hr nap is more appropriate and will make a difference
That’s a long nap. My kids were not sleeps . After about 1 year old my kids stopped napping. Sleeping until 8 is awesome. My kids were 6am. Some don’t need much sleep, my kids were like 6-8 hours of sleep. Try pushing bed time back. Or getting up earlier, less nap. Just like adults , some don’t need much sleep. Every few months kids go threw different changes until adults. There are growth spurts, hunger/eating changes, teeth, ear, growing pains etc. You have a Ling way ahead of you
3 hour nap at that age is too long . Naps usually.end around age 2-3 and should be an hour or so long . Also unless child has special needs too old for a bottle
Napping way too long and dinner is far too late
I had to loss the naps with our youngest by 16 moths, for a few reasons. This being one of them. It made a world of difference, and made life so much easier for ALL involved.
I’m curious what happened between 8 and 9. I would recommend pushing bath time to right before bed and make the routine as calming as possible- out of the bath into PJs, brush teeth and then straight into a calm, quiet and dark room. Read a book or whatever you do at bedtime but that is bedtime! No playing with toys or screen time. I would also consider a sound machine to play white noise. It could just be too quiet for him, or he could hear his adults still up and moving and not want to miss anything.
As for everyone saying to shorten/ ditch the nap… I would have to agree. But before you completely ditch it, consider if you will ever be using a daycare. If so, just know a lot of them require nap time, so you may want to keep that as part of your routine and just shorten it.