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Forming bad habit

TryingToForget
TryingToForget
Okay my daughter is 15 months old and has recently started to wake up after she falls asleep for the night she goes to bed (depending on naps and days activitys) between 5-7pm. Shes started to wake up around 11pm and will not fall back to sleep untill her dad gets home from work at 12 -1am. She wont fuss most of the time just play in her crib or lay there, but this has started to become a habit over the past week and i dont want it to continue. I belive its because she gets to spend so little time with him during the day he sleeps till about 11am and leaves again for work at 1pm. Is there anything i can do to break this habit? All advice apriciated!
~Cc
LJPage95
LJPage95
I'd try to keep her up longer. My DD goes to bed around 8:30-9:00 and sleeps until 6:30-7:30. If she is going to bed around 5pm, she's already slept a good 5-6 hours when she wakes to meet and greet daddy. That's almost a grown-ups night sleep.

I now see that you posted this on 8/21. How are things now?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I agree, try to keep her up longer. You could try cutting out the morning nap and making the afternoon nap earlier too if you're still doing two naps. Sounds like she's pretty much taking a late nap when you're putting her to bed then waking up to play before "bedtime".

We had a similar problem at around 12 months. Our son would take a morning nap a few hours after waking, the be okay until 5 or 6pm, then want his afternoon nap. So then he'd be waking up at 8 or 9pm, when he should have been going to bed. We cut out the morning nap completely, he'll take a nap around 2pm for 2-3 hrs, then be good until about 9pm, 10 at the latest, and sleep through the night.

Wish you luck!