Sleep pros: If your 7 month old got up from nap at 3, when is bedtime?

My DD3 is a crappy napper and as a result, often a crappy nighttime sleeper. I'm really trying to get her on a better schedule so she isn't perpetually overtired. We follow max wake time of 2.5-3 hours in between naps, but no matter what, the naps are short. She took a nap around 2:30 (it should've been at 2, but she wouldn't go to sleep), but was up by 3. So, do I put her down at 6 for the night (bedtime is usually 7)? Or, do I try for one more short nap and make bedtime later? My other 2 DDs were really good nappers/sleepers, so I feel like I'm dealing with uncharted territory with this one. She is happy as can be during the day and rarely seems tired, but she must be.

Message edited 4/4/2018 4:11:24 PM.

Re: Sleep pros: If your 7 month old got up from nap at 3, when is bedtime?

My DD is 9 months and naps like yours. We usually keep her up 3-3.5 hours between naps/nighttime. If she got up at 3, I would keep her up until 630, then begin the bedtime process (which for us would be a bottle,, book, then rock her for a bit and put her down for the night). I used to do bath time as the first step of the nighttime process, but found she was so wound up from playing in the water, that it took a while for her to calm down. Now she gets bath right after dinner. Works great for us

Re: Sleep pros: If your 7 month old got up from nap at 3, when is bedtime?

Re: Sleep pros: If your 7 month old got up from nap at 3, when is bedtime?

When DD (also 7 months) is at daycare, she tends to take at least 3 catnaps. She is usually more tired than when she is home or out and about with us on the weekends. Sometimes she takes a short nap when we get home. That can push bedtime later depending on how long she naps or it may not have an effect on bedtime. She’s generally ready to nurse and go to sleep around 8 or 8:30. Except for crying for the pacifier at times, she STTN. She started going through the night without eating around 6 months. She put herself on her own schedule. She also gets dragged around as the sister of 2 very active boys, but she doesn’t have any issues sleeping in her car seat at loud games.

If DD’s last nap ended at 3, I’d expect her to take a catnap because she can’t stay up for that long before bed and bedtime at 6 or 7 is too early for her.

Sleep pros: If your 7 month old got up from nap at 3, when is bedtime?

DDs schedule was like this:
Wakeup around 630am and have a bottle
breakfast by 730
nap#1 around 830/9am
wakeup around 10/1030, bottle
lunch at around 1130
nap #2 around 12/1230
wakeup by 2/230, bottle
stay up until bottle/bed at 7pm (occasionally she would fall asleep in the car on the way home from daycare for a short 20 min catnap)

DD pretty much kept this schedule until she was 18 or 19 months old. Only thing that changed was the bottles were gone and she had more food in it's place... Then we switched to 1 nap by 19/20 months

Message edited 4/4/2018 8:53:55 PM.

Re: Sleep pros: If your 7 month old got up from nap at 3, when is bedtime?

When my dd was younger, she’d take a long nap from around noon until about 3:30 and then she’d have “quiet time” around 5:00 just before dinner where she would lay on me or lay on the couch but not nap. This seemed to carry her through okay until her 7pm bedtime.

Sleep pros: If your 7 month old got up from nap at 3, when is bedtime?

I have a no nap past 4pm rule from like 6 months on. My twins were absolutely not napping padt 4pm because they would never get to bed. At this point they long slept through the night and even now at 15 months if they nap past 4pm, god help us all! At that age they did 2-3 shorter naps during the day, usually after a bottle and we would always just keep a bedtime routine, bath, bottle, story bed. For naps, I would put them in their crib and turn the sound machine on. My kids are extremely routine driven and if they heard the sound machine and wore their sleep sack they were pretty much “conditioned” so to speak that that would mean sleep and they rarely gave me trouble. Once they started needing less naps they would fight going down but it was really just about reading their cues. Is there any routine in particular she would respond to to show her it’s nap time? I feel like having a strict schedule helps because it’s a predictable routine, it can’t always happen because things come up but my life did and still does revolve around their nap/ sleep schedule

Sleep pros: If your 7 month old got up from nap at 3, when is bedtime?

how old is she?