What do u do with social life once ur baby is on one nap?

[Miraclelim]

Dd is now on one nap alternate days. So what do u do with social life? No lunch date or dinner party anymore? My bb sleeps from 1100-1300 planning to slowly shift it to 1200.

[Shellha]

You ride it out till they stop napping  and once they stop napping you will hate it!!

Have lunches at your house, or wait till the weekend and have DH stay home and you can go out and vice versa. Get a good babysitter and use them too if you want to go out together

[Miraclelim]

  my mothers group used to be at 11am then it changed to 1200 then 1230. Now I  have to do short am wake her up and pray she will sleep in the afternoon.
Didn't expect dd to go on one nap so soon she is only 11 mth today.
I planned lots of events around lunch time *sign* now I am stuck at home till she wakes up n has her lunch before I can go out.

[cath~]

We went to morning activities (play groups etc) and out again after nap in the afternoon, perhaps for play date.

I didn't schedule things for lunchtime or naptime (once this was after lunch).

It can be tricky scheduling things with other mums though if their LOs nap at different times.  Gets easier as they get older though.

[amayzie]

We moved our mother's group to the afternoon instead of the morning. Then you can start moving the nap back so you can have lunch then go home for the nap. I also found it a pain!! I had always enjoyed the staying home for a morning nap and then being FREEEE!!! I also would pack lunch so we could hit the road as soon as he woke up and feed him when we arrived somewhere...

[michaeljacknnugg]

If she has gone onto one nap early, chances are that it will slip into the afternoon (does she do long A times for her age?). We ended up with the nap at 2pm which was heaven as we could go out for the morning and then relax while he slept!

[Mama2Athena]

My DD is in daycare during the week so it's only on weekends that I have this dilema.  I love to go out but at the same time I try to be sensitive to her naps.  Like others, we try to go out first thing in the morning and be home around naptime.  However,she always falls asleep on the trip home, so we've always had to transfer her otherwise if left in the carseat, she will short nap.  Most of the time, the transfer is sucessful, but there are times that she'll wake as she is not a heavy sleeper. We usually leave her in the crib for as long as she'll let us and most of the time she'll fall back asleep.  If she doesn't nap, then we APOP a car nap later in the day.

If we have to meet a friend for lunch around her naptime, then we APOP a short car nap before and another one after.  It helps that the car puts her to sleep.  If we have to meet for dinner, then I usually suggest an earlier dinner, like 5:30/6:00 PM.  My friends usually understand.

[okinawamama]

I found switching to one nap to be so freeing! Most mommy and me classes, toddler library time and friend play groups take place mid morning so we were finally able to attend those! We usually go to the gym for 2 hours in the morning, and the boys play in the childcare and I workout with my friends. Afternoon's we either stay in and play, or head to  a park to pass the time until dinner.

[Layla]

We stayed home for the afternoon nap because I had 2 of them napping around the same time... it was only really an issue on the weekends when we'd be invited to in-laws house or somewhere else and most of the time I would time it so that they would nap in the car (it was only a short nap though ) and we would do an earlier bedtime. I also found it liberating when we were down to 1 nap but then again, I didn't do mother's groups or structured activities... it was mainly park, local walks, library, etc... and we would do activities in the morning and then stay home in the afternoon.

[RachandHarry]

My son still has a big lunch time nap 12.30 till 2.30 and it's great.  Our playgroups etc are all in the morning 9 - 11.30ish so we do them then home for lunch and bed.  The days are fun and disappear so quickly and you have two hours to yourself in the middle of the day which is a lot more than what some parents get.  Ah, bliss!  If I'm wanting to go out with friend etc we just make it a brunch instead of lunch.  Personally it's a small price to pay if you're managing to get a big day time sleep as well as catching up with friends.