15 month old has one nap but too short!

[chanitroy]

Hi there,
my daughter has been sleeping so well until last week. she sleeps through the night, sleeping 12-14 hours (we live in a basement and it's dark in the morning...) at around 11 months i transitioned her to one long nap (2/2.5 hours)after 3-4 hours of A time - because she sleeps so well at night, she doesn't need 2 naps. this worked very well.
last week she started having early waking (at the 11 hour mark), and i was able to put back to sleep with a short cuddle (i could tell she needed more sleep because she was all whiny, as opposed to when she sleeps 12-14 hours she's in a good mood when she wakes up). at the same time, she started waking from her nap after 1 hour/45 min, crying and crying... so i'd go in and try to cuddle and put back down, but this results in the loudest screeching i have ever experienced! and NOTHING could get her to go back to sleep! i am at a loss of what to do! i end up letting her wake up from the nap and we just get through the day, but today 2 hours after this episode she was sooooo cranky i decided to try to put her for another nap. she didn't even go down to start the nap! i ended up rubbing her back/saying soothing words with her screeching, standing up in her crib because i didn't know what to. it wasn't even helping, but i thought she'd get tired out from screaming .... eventually i left the room and kept going in every few minutes... wasn't working either.... then i took her a cuddled with ehr and she was soooo tired from screaming for so long that she fell right asleep. It took an hour!
i am at a loss of what to do!
can someone please help me, maybe i need tweeking of my schedule.... 

[Lolly]

May be her sleep needs are decreasing a bit. Is she teething at the moment - that can have an impact on sleeping.

Can you post your routine at the moment with wake up, nap times and sleep times please?

Laura

[chanitroy]

Thanks for responding to my question
her basic routine (before this problem cropped up) is as follows:
8:30 - wakeup
9:00 - breakfast and bottle
11:45 - lunch
12:00 - nap
2:00 - wakeup
2:30 - snack - bottle
6:00 - supper
7:45 - bath and bedtime bottle

[Lolly]

I think the problem could be that her day is too short. Most toddlers are having a 13 hour day when they are still having a decent nap, her first A time is a lot shorter than most have. An 11 hour night is fairly standard for toddlers, especially with a 2+ hour nap.

Is her 8.30 wake up time one that suits you? If it is then you are looking at a bedtime at around 9/9.30 really, if you want an earlier bedtime then you need to start her day earlier.

You need to move her nap out a bit so it is about 5 hours after wake up - you may need to do it in 15 min increments over a number of days.

At 15 months olds my DD had been on 1 nap for 3 months and out typical day was

6/6.30 wake up
11.30/12 nap for 1.5 - 2 hours
7/7.30 bedtime

What do you think?

Laura