Thanks to everyone who has posted support and advice for Straffles
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Hun there is a lot of conflicting advice here and I know you will find that difficult. Please know it is not that we are trying to make this harder for you, just that there are a lot of different options and different things will work for different LOs.
I thought it might help if I summarise a bit of what's been said and the various options:
- continue doing what you are doing for another week or so, or
- try an early long nap and accept the shorter nights, or
- a shorter nap, if you think the nap is robbing his night sleep, or
- cold turkey to NNDs, or
- uncapped nap, late BT then cold turkey to NNDs, or
- keep a 45 minute nap, but move it later in the day say 2/2.15pm with BT at the normal time.
I think looking at his days at the moment he is overtired, and that may be why he is struggling to settle at bedtime. Based on what we know, I don't think you are keen to move nap earlier or do a long nap, is that right? I also feel that cold turkey NNDs may be a mistake right now, though it may not be far in the future (J was not napping at this age). We wonder if the best option to try (and actually least different from what you are currently doing) would be keep the 45 minute nap but do it slightly later on in the day, with the hope that the shorter A before bed will make it easier for him to settle.
What do you think?