12 mo old and 2-1 transition problems

[mrsfabmoretti]

Hi everyone,

My DD is almost 12 months. Until recently, her routine looked like this:

Wake: 5.30
S: 9.30-10.30
S: 1.30-2.30
Bed: 6.15-6.30

I knew that 5.30 was an early wake up and about the need to start trying to transition to long AM/short PM, but she seemed fine on this routine.

However, wake ups are now getting earlier and earlier- the past few days they have been as early as 4am!!  With 4am wake up, we've still been getting 2x one hour naps.

I've read the 2-1 threads and I'm thinking I should start trying to push morning A times to get a longer AM nap, and then give her a cat nap late afternoon.. But I'm not sure how this would work without OT when she has such long days.... 

Please can anyone help with next steps?

(Also, must point out that drop DS off at nursery at 12.10pm and collect at 3pm, so trying to work around these times, too)

Thanks so much for any help. xxx

[TB9]

To be honest, before  LOs transition to onenap, their day can get to be as long as 14hrs.  So you will have some 14hr days/10hr nights before she is ready to drop to one nap.  Go ahead and push that am nap later by 15min or so and hold it for a few days to see if that helps with theam wakeup.  You can push by another 15min in a few days if it needs to be pushed later.

If it were me, I might actually try to shift her whole schedule later, because an ew is actually when the get less than 10hrs overnight.  And like I said you will get some 10hr nights before she drops to 1 nap, which would mean 4:30am wakeup with the 6:30pm bedtime that you have right now

[mrsfabmoretti]

Thanks for your reply- that makes lots of sense. I hadn't thought of putting her to bed earlier on a night tbh.. If that was the scenario, would I still keep 2x 1 hour naps during the day? For now?

Today, she had a longer AM nap (1 hour 30) so I let her have a shorter PM nap (woke after 30mins) so will be interesting to see if there's any change with the EW in the morning.