A little shut eye!

Getting Little Man’s naps just right is a fine balancing act. Naps too long and he won’t sleep through the night. Naps too late and he won’t go down to sleep easily that evening.

A few weeks ago he was moved into the senior baby room in the creche where the babies only get one nap during the day. At this stage Little Man still enjoyed his two naps a day so this came as quite a shock to his little system. It took almost two weeks of sleep-deprived nights for us before he settled into the new routine and started sleeping again.

And then today he got an unexpected nap this morning for a couple of hours in the car so of course he skipped his afternoon nap and kept going until he finally napped for 30 minutes from 4.30 to 5. We knew we were in trouble then. And sure enough when bedtime came at 7pm he was wide awake. And by 8pm he was overtired. It took another hour after that before he eventually nodded off. Zzzzzzzzz