Time Change AND 2-1 nap switch- ARRRGH

[clarapist]

We've been working through the 2-1 switch and  I thought I really had it made when DS started consistently waking after 7am. Then, this darn time change.10:
Usual routine for DS (16mo) has been
7:15 wake
7:30 breakfast
10am snack
12:15ish lunch
12:45/1 nap (sometimes only 1 hour! sometimes up to 1.5- maybe I should have done nap earlier?)
2:30ish snack
5:30-6 dinner
7 bath, milk, bed (asleep 7:30ish)
Bedtime used to be around 8, but moved earlier b/c of the length of the one nap

SO, with the darn time change, I SO don't want to move my day to a 6:30 bedtime for him!  Today, I basically tried to start shifting meal/sleep times forward a bit HOWEVER that created a 6 hour A time before his nap (up at 6:20, delayed bfast to 715, snack at 10, lunch at 12, and asleep by 12:20 (poor thing was falling asleep while eating his green beans!) I am so wondering how long his nap will be.

SO- my dilemma is that I don't want to create OT by increasing A times, but still want to drag his little clock an hour back!  (He has ALWAYS woken up same time or earlier if tired).

Any success stories with the time change?

[clarapist]

Just to add-- he slept for 1.5 hours. (Till 1:45pm)  Guess he needs to go down by 7pm---how to get him to sleep later?? (He RARELY sleeps 12 hours at night)

[~Lori~]

Ugh, the time change really screws things up too...don't have anything to add, other than we are going through the same thing now...

[andibig]

So his wake up time is 6.15am now.his nap might have been a little late if he was falling asleep in his lunch .
i'd do the normal routine but obviously an hour earlier and THEN move the whole routine forward 15 mins every few days until you get to your normal time again

[Layla]

I do something similar to Andrea (Sasha's mummy).. push the meal times, activities, nap, etc... by about 20mins every couple of days. For the 1st 3 days Isabella still woke at 5am (she wakes at 6) but it worked itself out in within about a week. I wouldn't push the WHOLE hour at once cause that would just cause overtiredness. Put him to bed based on what he used to do... he will probably wake at around 6ish again & start fresh tomorrow by slowly adding A time

Good luck
Layla

[M and N's Mom]

How long have you been on 1 nap?  I'm just wondering about the 5.5h A time before his nap...was he handling this well or do you think he could be OT which is why his nap is shorter.  That being said, my DS rarely naps more than 1.5h and usually 1h 20min so that might be all he needs.

If he is newly transitioned, you might want to move that back to about 5h A time and see if that helps.

[clarapist]

M and N's Mom- we have been on one nap for barely a few weeks. I'm stilll in the stage where I can't be in the car at 11am b/c he'll fall asleep. I guess I should go to 5 hours A time--  it just seems if I do that then it's hard to get bfast, snack and lunch squeezed in.  He's always been a good eater--- so I guess he'll eat when I give him food.

[M and N's Mom]

I have done a big snack as early as 10:30 (to give him time to poop before nap  ) and then another big snack after nap...sort of splitting lunch in half.

Will he sleep longer at night if his nap wasn't long enough?  When we were early in the transition I actually only did 4.5h A time before nap (still only at 4.75h-5h now but my DS has short A times).  So we did about:

7:15wake
10:30/45 big snack
11:45-1:30ish nap
1:30 snack
5:00 dinner
6:00 bed

I am fortunate that he would sleep 13h at night.  We gradually pushed A times but I still throw in a 15 min am catnap (with 2h A time between) some days, especially with the time change.

HTH!  Good luck.