Wakes Up Grumpy from PM nap?!

[cherrymama]

Hello,

My DD is 14 months.  She sleeps 12-13 hours a night with no NW.  She wakes around 7:7:30 am and has her first nap at 10am.  She always goes right to sleep for the AM nap and often let's me know she's ready for it.  She sleeps for 1.5 hours. Her PM nap is a different story.  She goes down around 3pm and often chatters to herself and sometimes gets worked up and fusses before she falls asleep.  This can take 30-40 mins before she falls asleep.  If she falls asleep around 3:45 she will sleep until 4:30ish, but she almost always wakes up crying or fussing and then is in a VERY foul mood.  It takes quite a while to get her spirits back up.  By dinner time (5-5:30pm) she's in good mood and still goes to bed by 7:30pm.

Yesterday she woke up from her PM nap and was crying and clinging to me for about 20 minutes.  This is becoming a trend. Granted, she is getting her molars, but I just wonder why even when she's not teethiong she wakes up so miserable?  Does anyone else have this happen with their little one?

When do I need to think of transitioning her to 1 nap a day?  Is this perhaps a sign?

Thanks!

[Layla]

Hi, alot of toddlers do this at this age, they either wake up from their morning nap grumpy or from the catnap grumpy... and it does have alot to do with the switch to 1 nap.

It could be the teething thats causing her more misery but it could also be that she only slept a short time (which is fine considering she sleeps 1.5hrs in the am & still sleeps 12-13hrs at night).

If you're not comfortable shortening her morning nap (so that she can take maybe less time falling asleep for her pm nap & maybe even taking a longer pm nap), then leave things as they are & not do anything until she dead set refuses the pm catnap. Then you can look at either shortening her morning nap so that the pm nap is back or pushing out her morning nap until its closer to middle of her day so that she is not awake for too long before bedtime

hth & let me know how you go
Layla