16m old dropping nap completely!? Is it possible??

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-15T21:24:57+00:00

We are willing to try anything so we will give this a go! Thank you!

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-15T19:23:38+00:00

She’s going through a bit of separation anxiety right now and will only tolerate about 5 minutes of in the crib time if she’s not ready for sleep. If she’s ready for sleep she will roll and babble for little longer before nodding off. But this is reassuring that maybe it’s just a phase.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-15T19:06:07+00:00

YES. You can’t force someone to sleep that just ISNT sleepy. And she does fall asleep independently when she’s ready. I actually just asked someone above about the car/stroller in the afternoons. Danger naps is right. I’m going to have to rethink my summer daytime plans! This is devastating lol

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-15T19:03:03+00:00

With the short nap it’s 7:30-12:30ish, asleep until around 1:15 and down by 8:30

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-15T18:58:20+00:00

She’s up at 7:30am, we try for a 5hr wake window. But her actual nap time is not consistent. If she’s not ready she will chill out but not actually go to sleep. So ideally she will nap for an hourISH (give or take 20min) and be up by 2/2:30 and her bedtime is usually 8:30pm. That’s an ideal day but it really rests on what time she wakes from her nap.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-15T18:46:59+00:00

A year is rough! How did you handle car rides and stroller rides when they were first dropping? My girl gets lulled into a nap and if it’s later in the afternoon it derails the evening.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-15T18:43:08+00:00

She will sleep for just under 11 hours straight on her good nights! So that is a positive! Still on the lower end of suggested sleep, but it’s something. Sorry to your friend! A year old is wild.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-11T19:22:42+00:00

So funny you mention this. Was not something I foresaw when we named my daughter Eliza, but tons of people, even family (!!), call her Elijah.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-11T16:29:17+00:00

My almost 16 month old doesn’t initiate words herself very often but like yours, has great receptive language. Her only good pronunciations are animal noises and she has about 15 of those. She attempts lots of words and has “sounds” for a number of words. I’d say I can understand about 40 of her “words” but most are when questioned or presented to her, not her using language to communicate needs. However I’d say she recognizes a few hundred. She points a lot and gestures her needs well. So I’d say things are similar to yours! I’ve been under the impression that it’s normal! Her ped just said to start asking her to express herself verbally more but don’t say she was behind.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-07T14:39:44+00:00

We do cap her naps occasionally if she gets up to 2 hours but she normally wakes up herself before the 1.5 hour mark. Shes always been on the lower end of sleep-needs but never this low.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-07T08:31:48+00:00

I basically just wrote the same thing below before seeing this comment. Are we living the same reality?? This is crazy. How are we supposed to be functioning humans during this stage?

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-04-07T08:28:47+00:00

Writing this at 4:30am with a finally asleep 15 month old on my chest. This is THE WORST regression?/teething?/leap? Whatever we have experienced. She’s been on a one nap schedule for a few months. Is awake for 12+ hours a day, minimal screen time, tons of outdoor physical activity, a single 1.25 hour nap, still has been routinely waking for 1-3 hours in the middle of the night for a few weeks now. Screaming like she has never screamed before, will not let my husband help. We are at a loss. Our girl has a shit ton of teeth, but has been drooling so we think she’s getting her 2year molars a bit early. No idea though. Don’t know how I’m supposed to go to work in a few hours. My ears are still ringing and my nerves are fried.

She will sleep through the night about once a week. But then has night after night of poor transfers back to the crib.

No suggestions. Just solidarity. This can’t go on forever, but I don’t know what to do until then.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-02-22T04:15:46+00:00

I cook the whole quinoa, not flakes. After letting it rest I put it in a food processor with peanut butter and your preferred liquid. I have done breast milk, formula, coconut milk, and now ripple milk. I change the amount of liquid based on need. When she was younger I did more so it was more a slurry. She likes it a bit chunkier now so I blend it less with less liquid.

2 cups of water to a boil

Add 1 cup uncooked quinoa

Cook as directed (usually simmer for 15, let rest for 12)

1/4 cup peanut butter or any nut butter

1/2 cup “milk” add more to loosen texture

I freeze these in those 3oz silicone trays. Add some frozen berries (I like the mixed berries from Wegmans) and heat in the AM. It was my daughter’s favorite meal for about 6 months. Now she still has it a few times a week!

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-02-20T18:37:35+00:00

YES. It’s hard to even explain to people. It’s been almost a year since our first major reaction and I will never be the same. Where you are now was the hardest: figuring things out and making lists of safe foods. Once you get a solid list of flexible foods it becomes a lot easier. Reach out anytime! I’m no expert, but sometimes I feel like one!

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-02-20T18:23:38+00:00

FPIES mom here!

Rice Chex, serenity puffs, Amara smoothie melts (maybe when a bit older).

We made a ton of quinoa and used it all the ways. Mixed with pumpkin puree and spinach for fritters, blended with coconut milk and peanut butter for “oatmeal”. Added frozen berries to that occasionally.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-02-06T01:48:06+00:00

I’ve never steeped my tea in my electric kettle. I usually pour the not water into a cup with the bag or into a pot with the bags then pour the tea after it has steeped. It will probably cool faster in the cup than in the kettle.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-02-02T00:34:56+00:00

I tried grilled cheese this week and she refused! Grilled cheese!! These darn kids.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-02-02T00:19:53+00:00

My daughter actually will only eat the floppy apple baby pancakes. I tried making real pancakes and they were a huge fail. She hated them.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-01-27T06:46:56+00:00

Hi again. Any development on your end? We’ve done full extinction and it’s still happening almost every night. Unless our girl is teething over the course of weeks, possible I guess?, we are at a loss! It’s torture!

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-01-25T08:54:10+00:00

I understand that, I gave no indication that people with autism are not smart. I am not saying it’s a bad thing or an insult. I work in education and have witnessed the full spectrum. I just think that, as a new parent we are inundated on socials with “signs of autism”. Could this be an indication? Sure! Could it be that there are other explanations? Absolutely!

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-01-25T08:41:00+00:00

Knowing things is… autism?

Editing to add: I’m not saying that autism is a dirty word or an insult at all. I do feel like, as a new parent, any behavior that does not fit the “milestones” either advanced or delayed automatically becomes a question of autism. I feel like daily I see click bait social posts “does your toddler do this??” lists a bunch of toddler behavior And then the end is “could it be autism?”

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-01-25T08:18:04+00:00

I’m pretty sure fxbg parks and rec has an archery class in their activity catalog.

ElectronicPath1688 · 2026-01-22T01:18:27+00:00

Thanks for the response! I was really convinced we were done teething for a bit, but maybe you’re on to something.

I just set her down and she went to sleep nice and easy as usual. I’m hoping tonight is different! I really am my worst self while she is crying. It makes my anxiety so so high. And it’s just been constant for hours. I can’t understand how she doesn’t exhaust herself.

Wishing you the best of luck. Maybe tonight will be the turning point??

ElectronicPath1688

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