Amazing Day — TERRIBLE Night
Writing this at 4:30am having successfully gotten perhaps 2 hours of sleep and being so tired I've just cried so apologies for any typos or delulu energy.
My toddler (who is just over 12 months) has been showing some signs (I thought) of switching to a one nap schedule. She has been somewhat harder to put down recently and fighting naps/bedtime on occasion so I thought oh maybe it's nearing time. (Note; she did eventually fall asleep on hard days but it would sometimes take 30 minutes to an hour)
Today she had a mid morning / early afternoon nap. Usually she sleeps 2 hours naturally but went from 10:30 to 1:30pm by herself — so 3 hours.
I thought it could be a good time to try a one nap schedule however I'd watch for cues and if she wanted to go to sleep, I was fine with a later schedule.
Well we had a pretty solid day. I watched for yawning or eye rubbing and her signing for milk (usually the time we go upstairs because we are weaning). None of this happened. We stayed up til 7:30 and then did our bed time routine so she was asleep at 8. Conked right out. I mean within 10 minutes she was snoring. So I thought the sleep pressure was great. But maybe I was wrong 😭?!
By 10pm we had restlessness and rousing. We have woken multiple times tonight and we were down to 2ish wakes a night (she has only slept through the night once) so this was unusual and it had been BRUTAL. She hasn't gone longer than an hour since 10 and had been full sitting up, babbling, staring into the void, sometimes full hours at a time.
Naturally I'm like great I ruined her sleep. She just woke up again as I finished this and was only down for 15 minutes. Help... Lol. Even though it felt great during the day and we played the whole time, was she really just hyper over tired? Or is her brain just thrown off by the lack of second nap? I feel like atp I'm going back to two tomorrow...