Yet another nap post/..

[mickyc]

she is sleeping from 5pm until 5am! WOW that is too long. at 13 months she shouldn't be sleeping that long. I would say 10 - 11 hours at night and one nap for 2-3 hours would be sufficient. I would say her night routine is definitely disrupting her daytime naps for you. Sad part is sometimes the parents won't keep their child up longer. I had one who wouldn't nap more than an hour for me but it was because mom was letting him sleep on the way to my house, again on the way home and then sleep for 4 hours on Saturday and sunday afternoons. When I suggested keeping him awake in the car and only letting him nap for 2 hours on weekends she couldn't believe I actually expected her to wake her child or keep him awake in the car. Hopefully your suggestions don't fall on deaf ears. I would maybe mention that if she doesn't eventually sleep that you may need to terminate. That usually gets parents attention. Give her a timeframe (maybe a month) in which mom needs to help transition her to less night sleeping and longer day sleeping.

As for bottles in bed - I actually started a discussion about it a week or so ago. I have since started weaning my 2 daycare kids off bottles in bed. I feed it to them in their sippy cup after lunch. A few tears but they are sleeping well. I didn't even bother telling the parents.