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Why won't your toddler go down to sleep during the day?

Dr Pamela Douglas17th of Sep 202323rd of May 2024

mother plays with toddler in cot during daytime

Here are the reasons why your toddler won't go down to sleep during the day.

  1. His sleep pressure isn’t high enough yet.

  2. He is dialled up and needs to be dialled down, either with

    • Milk, depending on his age and whether or not you're breastfeeding, or with

    • A change of sensory motor experience.

Women or primary carers find the days are easiest when they experiment with taking off the sleep lens, and putting on the sensory motor nourishment lens. Rich and diverse sensory motor experience, most easily achieved outside the low sensory interior of the home, keeps your toddler dialled down until the sleep pressure is high and sleep happens without effort on your part.

Many parents find cots no longer work for toddlers. You can find out more here.

You're toddler isn't having trouble taking a daytime nap because he

  • Is resisting sleep. Little people have a powerful biological hunger for rich sensory motor nourishment, and low sensory interior environments make them dial up - which also makes sleep much harder than it needs to be. You can find out more here.

  • Has gut pain. You can find out more here.

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