Standard sleep needs for 1-3 year olds are 10-13 hours/day per the Canadian Pediatric Society. Your daughter is getting 9.5 hours at night and an additional 1-2 hours during the day. It's most likely that your daughter's sleep needs are being met on the current schedule, and an 8:00pm bedtime is inappropriate for her body with the nap. If you feel the 8:00pm bedtime is a necessity for you, I'd work on scaling back or phasing out the nap while maintaining total sleep hours.
In addition to that general messaging, here are some more specific ideas:
- Cosleeping for the first part of the night (say, 30 mins) might help her drift off.
- With my DS, he needed to be utterly overwhelmed with mental stimulus before he could transition comfortably to sleep. This often looked like us reading non-fiction topics of interest for well over an hour.
Good luck.
Last edited by aquinas; 10/24/17 11:14 AM.
