Toddler sleep schedule?

[hamster]

Curious what time you are putting your toddlers to bed, but also how long it takes them to fall asleep. What is their nap schedule like?

C is 2.5 and goes to bed around 730 but will lay awake for an hour some nights.

[somersault72]

Our sleep schedule is not great, but I start the "putting to bed" process with DD around 8:30. She usually falls asleep around 9:30, but sometimes it's 10 (or later, God help us). She naps at the sitter from 12:30-2 (if she naps). If she naps at home it's more like 2:30 or 3. She's already an inconsistent napper (sad panda).

[Mrs.flang]

DD2 is only 18 months but her 730 bedtime has been creeping a bit later lately. Usually its no later than 8:00 though. She cries for about 30 seconds and then I don't pay attention to how long it takes her to fall asleep but I think its pretty quickly.

She wakes at around 645-7 am, and naps at daycare from 12-2, at home naps from 12-230 or sometimes 3.

[lovesherheels]

My DS is 20mo and naps 12-2/2:30 daily (sometimes till 3). We try to put him down around 7:30, though lately it's been closer to 8p. He usually takes about 10-30mins to fall asleep at night, and then stays down till somewhere between 6:45-8a.

[jnibean]

DS is phasing out naps, I'm afraid *sobs*. He naps an hour about every 2-3 days. The days he naps he ends up falling asleep around 8:30 and if he doesn't nap it's closer to 8. Wakes up anywhere between 6:30-7. Naptime is 12:30-2, and he's in there the whole time for a sanity break for me. He knows to play quietly, and sometimes he'll fall asleep.

ETA: the nap dropping happened out of nowhere, too. The Thursday before father's day he slept his normal 12:30-2 and was asleep for the night by 8. Then Friday he refused to sleep, and we've been on and off napping since then, and also taking longer to fall asleep at bedtime. I was hoping I'd have one if those magical sleepers at least through this summer...

[noodleoo]

Jul 1, 2020 10:52:08 GMT -5 lovesherheels said:

My DS is 20mo and naps 12-2/2:30 daily (sometimes till 3). We try to put him down around 7:30, though lately it's been closer to 8p. He usually takes about 10-30mins to fall asleep at night, and then stays down till somewhere between 6:45-8a.

DD2 is also 20 months and our schedule is similar.  Bedtime is 8 PM, but lately it's been taking a while for her to fall asleep.  I can hear her kicking and singing for quite a while.  She naps about 1-3 PM and wakes up usually around 7:30-8, but earlier about 1-2x a week.

[joy]

Is him being awake a problem? Like, is he crying for you or leaving his room?

My daughter is awake after we leave the room. She plays and puts herself to sleep without bothering us. Have at it, kid.

She’s up around 7am. Nap from 3:30pm to 5pm. Bed around 8:30pm. Falls asleep around 9:30pm. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[hamster]

Jul 1, 2020 11:23:37 GMT -5 joy said:

Is him being awake a problem? Like, is he crying for you or leaving his room?

My daughter is awake after we leave the room. She plays and puts herself to sleep without bothering us. Have at it, kid.

She’s up around 7am. Nap from 3:30pm to 5pm. Bed around 8:30pm. Falls asleep around 9:30pm. 🤷🏼‍♀️

No, he just lays there talking and singing. It's not a problem, but he definitely could use that extra sleep for the sake of his behavior. If he could sleep in that would help but his brother wakes up early and is SO LOUD. There's not much I can do about that.

[joy]

Jul 1, 2020 11:50:41 GMT -5 hamster said:

Jul 1, 2020 11:23:37 GMT -5 joy said:

Is him being awake a problem? Like, is he crying for you or leaving his room?

My daughter is awake after we leave the room. She plays and puts herself to sleep without bothering us. Have at it, kid.

She’s up around 7am. Nap from 3:30pm to 5pm. Bed around 8:30pm. Falls asleep around 9:30pm. 🤷🏼‍♀️

No, he just lays there talking and singing. It's not a problem, but he definitely could use that extra sleep for the sake of his behavior. If he could sleep in that would help but his brother wakes up early and is SO LOUD. There's not much I can do about that.

Ah. If my daughter sleeps over with her cousins, she is up at 6am with them. I’m like 😬😬😬. At home in her room alone, she sleeps until 7/8am.

Can you make up the time at nap time? My daughter is goos at shuffling her sleep around appropriately but I know that’s not all kids.

Honestly, I’m not sure there’s much you can do to make him sleep earlier.

[mccallister84]

DD2 just turned 2. We just pushed her bedtime back to 8 because she was taking forever to fall asleep. Honestly I don’t know how long she’s up for at night because she’ll read quietly and then passes out right in front of her door which is out of sight of the camera. She still takes a 2 hour plus nap most days.

DD1 is 3.5 and also goes to bed at 8 and seems to fall asleep pretty quickly. She’s been completely done with naps/independent quiet time for 6 months now.

[expectantsteelerfan]

My kids are well past the toddler stage, but we were always only the early side of things and still are due to them being chronic early wakers. I did the same with both of them, and that was to start bath/bedtime at 6:30 and have them in bed by 7. They would sleep till 6 AM (6:15 if I was lucky) and when they napped, it was from 12-2ish (ds dropped naps at 2, dd kept napping till almost 5). Both stayed on that schedule through kindergarten with bedtime being later when they had evening activities. DD is almost 9 and we JUST moved her bedtime to 7:30. She sleeps till 6:30 now luckily. DS at 11 goes to bed at 8:30 and sleeps till around 7.

[lessel]

DS2 just turned 2. He wakes up between 6-7. Naps from 12-1:30 (on some rare occasions until 2). We start bath time around 6:30, put in crib around 7:15. Sometimes he's out by 7:30, sometimes he parties in his crib until 8:30 and we go in a few times to reset him. I generally don't mind, but if he's being too loud or kicking his wall, it's pain because DS1's room is right next to his and we're usually getting him in bed around 8:15ish.

DS2 is generally a way better sleeper. The 5yo is up ~2x/night and ends up in our bed around 5 or so every morning. Sometimes he'll sleep until after 6, most times he just rolls around and is like "can we get up yet?" on repeat.

[seaturtle]

Similar to others here. DS is 19 months and wakes around 7:30-8 (if he's up earlier he's happy/chatty so we never get him before 7:30), naps 12:30-2:30/3, and bed around 7:15/7:30. Sometimes he falls asleep easily, sometimes he kicks and/or giggles for up to 30 mins, and occassionally he cries. We can't quite figure out the crying days but are assuming he's not getting enough activity during the day (we're both currently working from home while trying to watch him, and being an only he is content to just sit and play).

This is all going to turn to hell when he starts daycare on Monday. Assuming his naps will be bad so bedtime will be earlier, but wake up will also have to be earlier so we're hoping he will adjust quickly (fingers crossed!).

[corgimom]

DD just turned 2 in May.
We wake her shortly before 6 during the week but she will usually wake on her own between 6 & 7 on the weekends. She naps at day care & on the weekends from 12:30/1 - 3ish. We start bedtime around 6:30 and lay her down by 7. Most night she's asleep within half an hour but there are occasional nights, like last night, that she was just and talking and jumping around for at least an hour. But, thankfully, she generally sleeps through the night.

She had trouble going to sleep last night and was up early today but laid back down. She is recently waking early on the weekends, so I think we're going to start slowly moving her bedtime a bit later now that she's older. It just sucks because DH and I both have to be at work really early that we have to wake her early during the week so she tends to do it on the weekends out of habit and it also means we can't push her bedtime too late.

[icedcoffee]

DS is 3.5 He goes to bed at 7 and sleeps until 7:30. He "naps" from 1-3, but he actually hasn't fallen asleep in weeks so he just sits in bed with books and stuffed animals. Sometimes he lays there singing or kicking the wall.

I think he falls asleep fairly quickly at night, but honestly I don't really GAF if he lays there awake. LOL

We probably need to push his bedtime closer to 7:30, but we refuse to do it while in quarantine. I can barely get to 7:00. In the morning he sometimes wakes up a little before 7:30, but he's fairly good about just laying in bed until we come get him at 7:30.

[beerlover]

DS is almost 4. He goes to bed at 8pm and sleeps until about 7 or maybe a little earlier. If he's at a sleepover with his cousin though, or if my mom stays over because she's watching him, he gets up around 6:15, which sucks lol.

He naps at daycare for maybe an hour from 12ish until 1:30 or so. For awhile this seemed to be affecting him going to sleep at night, but it doesn't seem to be, anymore. We did put an outside lock on his door to cut down on the amount of times he was coming out of his room to ask for things and delay bedtime. This has worked wonderfully, actually, and he seems to be going to sleep more quickly now. I feel a little guilty about it - of course we check him on the monitor and go upstairs if he needs something - but it has cut down so much on bedtime shenanigans and we have our evenings back after 8pm!

[kitkat1502]

DD is 2.5 (will be 3 in October) and bedtime is between 6pm-6:30pm. She doesn't nap during the day anymore, so the early bedtime works and is soooo needed for both of us haha.

I posted a few weeks ago asking for help about the toddler bed and since we did the CIO method it's been pretty smooth sailing aside for a few days where she cried again.

Put her in bed, read Goodnight Moon, since Frere Jacques a few times and she's nearly asleep. She stays in bed now and doesn't seem to be awake for much longer after I leave the room.

[sdlaura]

My son turned 3 last month. We now start the bedtime routine around 7:45/8 and he goes to sleep around 8:30. It’s later than my older kids were at that age because he normally naps 2 hours in the afternoon. We’d probably move bedtime up to 7 or so if he dropped the nap (but I’m in no hurry for that to happen).

[macmars45]

I posted about this exact thing when my DS was roughly that age. He's currently 4, fwiw. He gave up naps pretty much entirely by 2, but did at least an hour of quiet time in his crib until he turned 3.
For bedtime, we just let him be for the 45 min-1 hour it took him to go to sleep. He wasn't upset so we just KOKO. He went to bed at 6:45/7pm then I think and was up for the day at 6/6:30am.

[jewel]

My kid is almost 2.5.

He wakes around 7:30-8:30, naps 12:30-3ish, and asleep around 9. He could probably give up naps now, but it’s not something that I can give up during quarantine. Lol.

[sarapocalypse]

DS is 22 months and goes to bed around 8 pm but usually lays awake talking or moving around until 8:30 or so. He wakes up between 7:00 and 7:30, with the occasional 6:30 wake-up some days. He usually naps from 12:30-2:00.

[mbcdefg]

My DD just turned three. We generally put her to bed around 8pm (bath at 7pm, about 10-15 mins of videos, and three books).

Falling asleep - eh, it depends. Some nights she’s up for an hour talking to herself, some nights she knocks out right away. If she’s awake and very chatty longer than 30-45 mins, we go in to see if she needs a clean diaper. She only poops while wearing a diaper during nap/bedtime.

She still takes an afternoon nap. We try to start the nap process around 12:30pm but sometimes we can’t get her down until after 2pm. She’s also not falling asleep on afternoon car rides like she used to, so if we’re going somewhere she may go a whole day without a nap.

[al dente]

My baby is just over two. She lays down around 7:30/8, depending on how quickly she poops lol. Once I put her in her crib I don’t hear her, but we don’t have a monitor so I’ve never seen if she actually goes straight to sleep or not. I’m assuming she does.

She wake up anywhere from 6:30-7:30am. Naps from 1:30 to 3ish give or take 15 min.

[shauni27]

hamster, S is very similar. Starting at 2.5 it would take him an hour or so to fall asleep each night. Just talking and singing and playing in his crib. Then he would sleep through the night usually for about 11-12 hours. We would be putting him in bed at 7:30, he would talk until about 8:30 and then sleep until 7:30\8 the next morning.


These days he is starting to drop his naps. On days he does not nap, he is in bed no later than 7 and usually asleep within minutes. He will sleep 12-13 hours. On days he does nap, we try to cap the nap at an hour and he is in bed by 8, but sometimes does not fall asleep until 9 (!!!). He will then usually sleep until 7:30/8.

[andi]

DS is almost 3 and goes to bed between 7-7:30, naps from 1-2:30ish. After coming out of his room 146 times he goes to sleep just fine.

[hamster]

Thank you all!

It sounds like this is all pretty normal. We tried putting him to bed a little later last night but he was still up until 9. Not too surprising since he took a 2.5 nap. I usually limit to 2 hours but he's SO CRANKY when I do that.

The good news is his little brother dropped to one nap and has been sleeping in later which will really help.

[tiki]

These threads always remind me how weird my nearly-3 year old is. Yesterday she refused to nap, and as a result went to sleep "early" by 9pm. We were ecstatic.