I dont think my 15 month old is getting enough sleep, help!

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Hi everyone,
So I started a new job about 3 weeks ago, just a preschool job from 330-630. My daughter stays with my mom while i work. She was on a great schedule at first, shed wake up at 9, take a 2-2.5 hour nap around 12 and then go to be about 930. Then she got sick and everything got messed up. Now shes not going to bed until 11, sometimes ever 12 or 1!! Gets up about 10 (I try not to wake her too early so shes not losing sleep) and takes a nap at 115 ish, but sometimes i sti with her till almost two. I have to leave for work by 3, have to wake her up by 245 to get her ready so I just dont think shes getting enough sleep. I’m really worried about her. We try calming her down by 830 or 9, but that doesnt seem to work. I have also tried leaving her in her bed for 20 mins and let her cry, but by the time I get up and get her out shes more energized and wants to get down and play. I’m so lost and I hate her schedule got screwed up >:( Help!
 
ellam25 said:
Hi everyone,
So I started a new job about 3 weeks ago, just a preschool job from 330-630. My daughter stays with my mom while i work. She was on a great schedule at first, shed wake up at 9, take a 2-2.5 hour nap around 12 and then go to be about 930. Then she got sick and everything got messed up. Now shes not going to bed until 11, sometimes ever 12 or 1!! Gets up about 10 (I try not to wake her too early so shes not losing sleep) and takes a nap at 115 ish, but sometimes i sti with her till almost two. I have to leave for work by 3, have to wake her up by 245 to get her ready so I just dont think shes getting enough sleep. I’m really worried about her. We try calming her down by 830 or 9, but that doesnt seem to work. I have also tried leaving her in her bed for 20 mins and let her cry, but by the time I get up and get her out shes more energized and wants to get down and play. I’m so lost and I hate her schedule got screwed up >:( Help!
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How old is she? Think I might ask her pediatrician if she’s a baby. However, hope this isn’t the case but my daughter when’s baby didn’t seem to need much sleep either. My mother said when I was a baby wouldn’t sleep much either, and the pediatrician told her 9 out of 10 babies need a lot of sleep but I was the 10th!

It sounds like she’s either going through a phase or her schedule hot messed up as a result of being sick though, so that’s why I’d ask her doctor to make sure nothing else is going on that would keep her awake that long.👍
 
I feel for you. We had similar issues with our daughter when she was 18months old.

Not sure if you have the service in the US, in Australia the hospitals have a home-nurse service which visited our home regularly for the first 6 months to check on our progress and she actually advised us of this solution.

What we found worked was my hubby saw to her needs at night while I slept if he had an afternoon shift. If he had a morning shift, I would stay up with her, that way we both had restful unbroken sleeps some nights instead of none. Gradually, we got her back into her normal routine but it was difficult, consistency was key.

We would wake her up early, ten minutes earlier then moved to twenty minutes earlier and so on until it was an hour earlier in the morning instead of letting her sleep in and made her afternoon naps shorter by ten minutes, eventually she fell asleep earlier in the night and she was back into her normal routine. There was some initial grumbling and crankiness on her part but it worked.

Hang in there and make sure you take care of yourself too. Eat healthy, drink lots of water and exercise, I found that made a huge difference in my sleep quality. Good luck. :hug1:
 
Anytime there are any changes in our house our son’s sleeping gets messed up. He’s a little older, but it’s always been like that. If he misses a nap for one day he doesn’t sleep well for an entire week. Generally it works itself out as long as I stick closely to his normal schedule.

If it were me, I would probably get her up at 9am, when she normally woke before all this started, so that she would be more tired for her nap at her regular naptime.
 
so long ago now…

Our oldest was on a wonderful sleeping schedule, slept through the night, all was good… then one day, flip-flop, sleeping during the day and awake all night. :crying::hypno:

So, we had our pediatrician take a good look just to make sure there wasn’t something else going on - which of course our pediatrician reassured us that this was normal and common and gave us some guidance both as a doctor and as a mother of four herself on how to survive the flip-flop and how to get our little-one back on a “normal” sleep pattern… it took us about a week to get the little-one to go back to a “normal” schedule - oh, that was one of the longer weeks… :yawn::coffeeread:

As with some of the other posters here, have the pediatrician take a look to make sure that something isn’t wrong (you mentioned a recent illness, a follow-up might be in order here) and explain to your pediatrician what is going on - they’ve seen things like this before and can help you work through this current hiccup in the road!

hang-in-there - this will pass
 
Has this only been going on for a week? If so, I would give it a chance to resolve itself. Would t be possible for your mom to watch the baby at your house, so you don’t have to wake her? It might be too inconvenient for your mom, but it might be worth asking.
 
If her doctor gives her a clean bill of health, I would second Lorelei’s excellent advice and try waking her at 9 AM so she’s tired by her usual naptime.
Sleep patterns are constantly changing in infancy as I recall. If you get her up on time, and allow time for a nap if needed, she may fall asleep in your arms at night when you don’t expect it, when she’s tired

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Hi Ellam,
I have a 2 year old, and was doing some research online to try and find some advice on sleep rhythms etc. I guess most of the advice out there is quite contradictory - I think you just have to do what works best for you and your child.
I quite liked this article (don’t think is mean to be entirely serious) which looks at old vs new school parenting advice (it shows how much parenting has changed). The only thing that really worked for me with running a vacuum or white noise machine… you might want to give it a go?
Emma
 
Is 15 months about the time when babies no longer need 2 naps a day? Too long ago for me to be much help, but I can remember the pain ;). Lack of sleep affects the whole house. Good luck getting back on your normal schedule!
 
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