Hello! I've just found the 2-1 thread so have been reading that too
Well today he refused the 9am catnap - so I put him in the buggy and walked him into town (only about 15 minutes away) - we walked around town for a bit then came back home (no signs of falling asleep in the buggy!). Big snack, and then he was handing me his sleeping bag at 10:30 so I put him in his cot. He was asleep in a couple of minutes!
But still only did 1 hour 20 - that would have been a GREAT nap when we were on 2 naps, but on one nap it's not so good is it?
So his A time was 5.5 hours (but that did include some time in the cot this morning before i got him up).
Didn't try for an afternoon catnap as it would have needed to be at 4:30 or later - making bedtime about 7/7:30pm even if he'd have gone down. He was tired around that time though so may have, but I could have only given him 20 minutes and he would have been miserable until bedtime. It's so hard to know what's best.
I'm not really thinking about it as EWUs - more that I've screwed up his schedule so he's about an hour earlier than I would like. If it had been:
WU - 6:10
Nap - 11:35-1:00
Bedtime - 6:30 and asleep by 6:40pm
then I would be happy enough despite the rubbish amount of day sleep.
I'm so glad your DD is waking later (at least for a while) - but it's not fun having her miserable in the day. Hope she gets used to childcare soon.
DS is 18 months in a few days time! So probably could handle 1 nap days - I suppose they do get tired at first and it might be just a case of pushing through? DH gets back from the US this weekend and is braver than me with DS and his sleep so might well just tell me to go for it! I feel changing everything around is confusing DS at the moment.
We began this whole saga with long AM short PM but what happened is he refused the PM nap and then I put him down early. However, even with 11/11.5 hour nights a 5:30pm bedtime only gets you back to 5am the next day...