2-1 switch- can the one nap be in the morning?

[~Carly~]

We are moving towards one nap, and I was wondering if anyone has successfully made the one nap early in the day instead of later.  Right now, DS2 is napping 2 hours, usually beginning at 11am and taking a short 2nd nap, 30 of 45 minutes. 

Any BTDT advice on having one early nap?

[theu.s.lees]

It has been a while since I was making the 2-1 but with DS I had originally had the am nap the shortest. But once I was down to a 20 min am CN, it felt like I could never kick the nap. So I ended up switching them around and it was so much better. What time is your DS getting up in the morning and going to bed?

DS had a schedule something like

7 - WU
S - 12-2:30/3
BT - 6:00-6:30

If you are up around 7 and he's making it to 11, that's pretty good already. You could work to push that am nap back by 15 minutes at a time or so to get more towards noon, which will help with a decent BT once the CN is kicked. Also, you will probably have to cut shorter and shorter after time, though probably not both at the same time. But that is about what we did. Though one day he just stopped the CN all together and we didn't look back. HTH

[~Carly~]

Thanks! 

Right now our routine is

WU 630/7
S 1030/11- usually 1.5-2 h
S 4 - very hard to get him to take this nap- only 30 minutes, we skip it if he can tolerate
BT 7

I am hoping to have his nap to be 1130-2 ish, but maybe I need to wake him up earlier to do this....

[amayzie]

Hi hon- How are things going now with the routine?

[~Carly~]

Hi, thanks for asking.  Things are ok....  I know this is standard 2-1 switch stuff, but if I can convince him to take 2 naps, he is STTN.  With 1, we have NW.  We are really working on being active for our first A time to get a earlier nap.  I have to pick up DS1 from school at 2, and once he is around, DS2 has trouble napping at all (not because of noise, but because they play so much  

So, still trying to figure it out, but I haven't sorted it yet.  I did put him to bed at 630 last night and woke him up today at 6, trying to get a longer early nap....

[amayzie]

ugh! The 2 kids definitely complicates the issue!!

Have you considered a short AM nap long PM nap? We did this and it worked well. We were always AM long nappers- so i was scared to make the jump- but when they are refusing the PM nap it works well. We would do a short- 30/40 min at first and then 15/20 min nap in the AM- often in the car for us, then then the long PM nap at about 1. you could try that? possibly tweak it a bit to move around the pick up? He should be REALLY tired by the Pm then and you won't have the refusals.

[~Carly~]

I haven't tried that yet, but I might have to....  DS1 has activities some days after school, some days not and I was hoping to work out a consistent schedule.  Might just have to sort it out over summer break...

[*happy*]

we did the nap in the morning.it was messy for
awhile,but we pushed the A time out bit by bit,then
tried setnaps at 12 with a 7aw wakeup.works for
us-most of the time!