Nighttime party

My 20 month old has been waking up in the middle of the night wanting to party. He gets up and wants food and then wants to play for hours. Recently my breastmilk dried up or changed because I’m pregnant. He still wants to nurse but I don’t think he’s getting anything? Idk for sure I haven’t tried pumping. But regardless I thought maybe he’s just hungry so I’ve been giving him snacks before bed. Is this normal?? Anyone else go through something like this? I’m exhausted!

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How long is the nap/what is the schedule?

@Natalie depends. His nap is anywhere between 1-3 hours. Our schedule is all over the place waking up and nap time because of this new behavior at night. But bed time is around 930. I do this bc my husband doesn’t get off until 730 so he gets to see him. On a normal day he sleeps through the night and wakes up at 730-8 and nap at 12.

@Abby if the nap is shorter (1 hour or so) then I'd say the gap until bedtime is too long. I know for my daughter she needs 6-6.30 hours (a bit older now) before bed so if he's only had an hour nap then 8.5 hours is too long so waking in the night is cos they struggle to stay asleep due to being overtired. If he's awake a lot in the night then next day I'd be trying an earlier nap and bedtime.

@Natalie thank you! 😊 this is helpful. He sometimes still naps twice a day so I think the days he doesn’t is when he has trouble. I appreciate it!

@Abby i would suggest trying to drop to one so it's consistent.

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