I don't know what is going on with my 11.5 month old. We were doing great. This was our schedule until a couple of weeks ago:
W 7 AM
S 10 AM - 11:30 AM
S 3 PM - 4:30 PM
BT 8 PM
He started fighting his naps so I adjusted as below. I started putting him down 30 min later, but ended up having to wake him for both naps to keep him on schedule. I think he's increasing his A time, so his BT has been pushed back. I tried waking at 4:30 PM instead of 5 PM in an attempt to keep the 8 PM bedtime and he was HORRIBLY cranky.
W 7 AM
S 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
S 3:30 PM - 5 PM
BT 8:15/8:30 PM
Then the past few nights have happened. He's started waking hourly and yesterday didn't go down for his 1st nap until 12:30 PM, and then only slept 30 minutes. Got him down again for a second nap at 4 PM and woke him at 5 PM in hopes of having him in bed at his normal BT, but he fought BT until 9:30 PM. I took him to the pedi a couple of days ago to have him checked out after the first up-every-hour-screaming-night and there's nothing physically wrong.
Today I put him down at 10:30 AM and he babbled and finally fell asleep a little after 11 AM. I normally would wake at noon, but I don't think an hour sleep is enough for him to function without being cranky, especially given how bad his nights have been. Is he trying to extend A time again? If so, I'm caught between a rock and a hard place because I don't know if we should just let him sleep as long as he wants or try and keep on schedule.
I know typically it's a little early for him to be on only one nap (he's not walking yet and I assume when he does he really will need that second nap), but everything is so all over the place I have no idea where to start? It was like overnight that he went from being a decent sleeper to HORRIBLE. I thought at first he was teething, but now I don't think that's the case.
I read all of the 2 to 1 nap transition and know that's the direction we are headed, but I'm so tired I can't make sense of what I should be doing!
Advice???