1st attempt at 1 nap - failed! :)

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Perhaps not the best day to try?  I don't know.  We've been thinking Austin is ready for 1 nap for a week or so now but we knew we'd be traveling back home over the weekend so we just stuck with the old 20 min AM nap, 2h PM nap routine.

Yesterday we were traveling all day and he actually slept for 30 min on the 1st plane (to my amazement and joy!) but that was it for the rest of the day so he was up for 18h on that one nap.  I got him to bed at 6:45 and he slept for 13 hours straight!    I couldn't believe it! 

So this morning I decided to go for it and try for 1 nap.  He's been up for 3h-ish before the 20 min AM nap so I tried this...

7:45: A
12:05: S

And got this...

1:15: A, happy as a clam
4:30: tried for a CN since he was very crabby and rubbing eyes, etc but he sat in bed singing
5: got him up
6:25: tried for bed
6:50: asleep
7:40: awake, crying hysterically, totally OT

So....obviously this has not worked very well so far!

I'm going to do 2 naps tomorrow and try again with 1 nap on Tuesday.

Should I keep him up longer for the 1st A time?  Was that first nap UT, you think?  Any other tips?

Thanks...

[Jiinx]

oh boy. Sorry K

If he was happy upon waking, I would suspect he's UT. Perhaps 4 hours and 20 minutes wasn't enough time. I would try for 4 hours and 45? Maybe that will make a difference.

Also, any chance he goes down with any APOP? Just in case you need to sneak a nap in?

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Thanks, Sarah.  I'll try something longer on Tuesday. 

We are completely without APOP these days.   I can still shh/pat him when he wakes but it doesn't really work to get him down.  GW works ok when he's losing it before bed but I don't really have anything left in my arsenal to get him down when he doesn't want to go down.

[Jiinx]

what about car rides or stroller walks?

So with two naps, sorry Kate - remind me again, what was going on? Is he EW?

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Nope, this kid won't sleep in a car for the life of him and I don't think he's fallen asleep in the stroller in at least 6 months.   He has a mind of his own, this one!! 

Last week he started taking longer and longer to go down for the PM nap.  No EWs, thankfully, but just nap refusal and often after taking ages to do down he would only sleep an hour or an hour and ten.

[Jiinx]

that's right. I remember...you were waking him up early in hopes of a longer PM nap.

With us...when she was a bit younger than your lo, she was doing 1 hour and 10 mins in the morning with 3 and half hours and then MAYBE 40 minutes with 4 hours and a bit. I say maybe bc she would start to refuse the nap and chatter instead and then cry.

then she did 45 minutes on 3 and half hours...which I think may be where you lo is at. A big leap in A time? Since it's only been one day, it's hard to establish a pattern. However, I -completely- understand the reluctancy to try again!! I suspect he's ready for at least 4 and half hours, if not more. See how it goes tomorrow with the two naps though...?

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Yeah the short AM/long PM has worked well for us for a long time but I think he's just more or less ready to go to 1 nap.  I'll do our old 2 nap routine tomorrow and try for a longer AM A time on Tuesday.

[babybarr]

Yep the slightly longer a time in the morning sounds like a good plan.  The other thing is that if the nap is short is to just do a mega early bed.  So like 6pm (or some people do 5.30pm) if possible.

HTH

[JayLeigh]

yeah Kate, especially that since that day he was coming off a 13hr sleep. I have noticed that with DS if he has an extra long night we have to max out his A time to get a proper nap. A time of 4h45m sounds reasonable, when we did the switch it seems like overnight DS A time jumped from 4h15m to 5h!!

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Thanks, ladies.  Will give it a shot tomorrow.

[Jiinx]

How'd it go yesterday, Kate?

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So TBH our old 2 nap routine has been working really well so I've just been sticking to that.  I figure, why rock the boat.  He had some sniffles yesterday and has just seemed a little more tired than usual (grabbing his giraffe blankie and trying to climb into the crib when I'm reading his bedtime story!  Too cute!) so maybe that's playing a part.  I'm sure we'll get PM nap refusal again soon but for now I'm just rolling with what's working.

Thanks for checking in.  I'll be back when the you-know-what hits the fan!

[Jiinx]

that's great!! I'm glad the old routine is working and you're following his cues Yay!