Noah is TOTALLY off his sleeping schedule. Last week he caught a cold and my sister got married. This meant lots of disruptions in his normal schedule. Now, while he still is a bit stuffy, he is totally off schedule. He won't nap and is waking a night. AHHHH!!! I feel like we are back to square one. My stubborn little man that will cry for 2 hours if I let him is back. He was taking 1.5 hour nap in the morning and at least a 30 min - 1 hour nap in the afternoon (still not great, but much better then the no naps we had before).

What do I do? Keep putting him down at the old times until it works out? He is so crabby - and I might add I am a bit crabby myself!!! Help!

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Sorry to hear that things are off in your household...must be the time of year; Rebecca's a mess too. Last night she was up for an hour and a half after only being asleep for 3 hours and for the past few days, she's woken up crying instead of playing.

I'm not going to try anything until after the holidays. There's just too much chaos and disruption in the next few days to let her cio for any amount of time. Hopefully after things settle down, she'll go back to normal, if not, I'll deal with it then. I'm not sure if I'm going to let her cio or if we'll take a different approach, but there's just no point in trying to make her keep a schedule right now, that I can't even keep.

Hope Noah goes back to normal on his own and soon!

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Andy

If with the holidays you can keep him on his old schedule I would do that. I know that Eli gets really messed up if he gets too tired. The crying makes it even worse. We had 2 Christmas celebrations last weekend and he had no noticable naps and Monday was not a fun day at our house. I think that they forget how to take good naps when the schedule gets off but they also need to learn how to be a little flexible. It is so hard to know what to do...

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Mandy

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