I always feel bad

[karinothing]

When DS falls asleep after 5pm and I can't let him take a real nap. I know he could probably sleep a good hour right now but if that happens he won't go to bed till really late and then I will be cranky ha ha. Poor guy is just passed out in my lap!

I wish he would learn to take an afternoon nap at daycare.

[satama]

What is his normal bedtime? I can let DS nap late and it does not seem to affect him going to sleep at bedtime at all. Seems weird to me, but babies are weird. Lol.

[karinothing]

We start putting him down around 630. I think DS does not listen to the whole sleep begets sleep thing. I have let him nap after 5 before and it resulted in bed time disasters so much that the other day when we went out to dinner i made DH sit in the back of the car to pester DS to make sure he stayed awake ha ha.

ETA: I think it is because this kid can sleep for like 5 minutes and be completely happy/energetic afterwards. He is a strange one.

[h]

My kids have never followed the "sleep begets sleep" rule either. A late nap always pushed back bedtime; I would have woken them if they fell asleep at 5.

[Deleted]

Oh I totally get that. We have a no nap past 3pm rule, because DS likes to go down around 5:45 pm. Because he is early to bed early to rise, & sttn most of the time, I wil even wake him up from a nap around 3:15 if he is still asleep.

[satama]

Well toddler/baby car sleep is a different story altogether. They can fall asleep five minutes from home then act like it was a two hour nap. Haha.


We wake DS1 up from his nap at 5:30 if he is still sleeping, but he goes down at 2 and bedtime is 7:30.

[jenny1223]

I always struggle with sleep in the evenings. If DS doesn't get a good afternoon nap, he's obviously fussy, but I don't want him to nap at 4:30 when we get home since normal bedtime is 6:30/7.

[hannamaren]

I find that is Layla has a nap and wakes before 2pm, she needs her 5 pm nap. She still goes down at 730pm.
But I know how you feel about trying to keep them up. I have bumoed the stroller all over the sidewalk to keep her awake until we get home so she can sleep in her crib