Need HELP!!!!!! 19 month naps!!

[wiggleworm]

I have a 19 month old baby who was a colic baby until 6 months. He drinks whole organic milk daily, he eats ok. He loves TV because he has a older sister who watches tv only about 30 minutes a day but we have decided to cut that out, we feel like he is getting obsessed over it.
Our little man goes to sleep around 7 to 7:30 at night and we have a regular routine of bath, reading books and sleep time. He sleeps till around 6:30-7:15 AM.
The problem we have now is his naps they are so inconsistent and since we have a 3 year little girl we probably have not worked enough on them. He will only sleep around 45 minutes to one hour a day, only one nap. I think this is just habit for his body to wake early. My 3 year old sleeps the same at night and has at least a 2 hour nap during the day.
We don't know if we should do the pick up put down or what. I did the baby whisperer with my first child with everything.
I really need help, I'm going crazy with no me time!!!!!!!!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks.
Tonya

[speechie]

Hi Tonya- I've got an 18 mo spirited DS who is now on one nap a day- what time do you try to put him down for a nap if he's waking at 7AM?
any chance of sleep getting worse because of molars? We had a string of 45 min-1 hour naps with teeth and he's now resettling himself better. I also reintroduced white noise/soft music at night and naptime. Seems to help him resettle in light sleep modes/blocks noises...
HTH

[wiggleworm]

I don't think it is soley the molars because the nap issue has been going on for a while. We were just so happy at about 10 months when he started sleeping through the night that we took the 45 minute naps and ran with it.
Naps vary, I tried the 12:00 nap and then I have tried waiting until 1 or 2. For example today he went to sleep at 12:20 and woke at 1:05 right at about 45 minutes.
I think we have a mess on our hands!!!
I will try anything at this point!!! Any suggestions on Wake to sleep at this age?

[speechie]

I've never done wake to sleep- too chicken.
I think for a lot of kids that 45 min naps indicate OT...I would consider trying a consistently earlier (12:00?) nap for a few days. Make sure it's after a substantial lunch/snack, also can you run a fan or soft music or some kind of white noise? Even though we are down to one long nap, some days when Nick wakes early or has been really busy, he needs a 15 min catnap around 9:30 or 10AM, then he'll easily last till 1PM.

[wiggleworm]

any advice from anyone would be greatly appreciated!!!

[elliesmama]

My dd had a few week stint of very short or no naps.  What worked for us was a good and fairly sizable wind-down routine and pretty much exactly 5.5 hours of A time.  Good luck!  I know what it's like not to have any Y time...drives me crazy on days like that!