We've been doing one nap days for 23 days now. We transitioned out of necessity, as if I allowed an am nap, dd would only sleep for that nap and then nothing else for the rest of the day. For about 2 weeks we had success by limiting the am nap to try and hold onto a pm nap, but then she began refusing the PM nap with just a 35 minute am nap, so we made the jump and began pushing naptime to a more central time during the day.
She's been sleeping well at night, averaging about 11 hours and 15 min to 11.5 hours. When we first transtioned we were only getting 45 minute naps, then that extended to an hour and then for the past 2 weeks we were averaging anywhere from an hour and a half to 2 hours. The past two days (she's napping now so we'll see how today goes) her one and only nap has been about and hour and 10 minutes and then an hour and 15 minutes. Is the universal OT nap for 1 nap a day, similar to how 45 minutes is an OT nap for 2 naps a day?
Here's our schedule which has gone to hades today - the time change shifted us forward to later times:
7:30 wake and nurse
8:30 breakfast
10:00 nurse & snack
12:00 lunch
1:00 nap - some days till 3, past 2 days to 2:15ish
3:00 nurse and snack
6:30 dinner
7:00 bath, books and pjs
7:30 nurse
8:00 asleep
She is a wholly independent sleeper, so we're great there. I'm just trying to figure out how to keep our great nights and get some continuity and predictability for the length of nap. She seems to be unusual in the sense that moving bedtime up will work great for one day, but if I do it repetitively she ends up waking earlier - almost like she catches up but then quickly backfires on us.
Or is this merely a case of her still adjusting to one nap and eventually the nap will consistently be in the 2 hour range?
Today is all mucked up and she went down for her nap at noon and has already been asleep for an hour - hopefully she will continue to sleep and I can bring bedtime forward to a more managable time, as 8pm feels so late to me and selfishly, I need some "me" time in the evening before I go to bed.
All thoughts and suggestions welcome!! Thanks in advance!
ETA: So she slept for an hour and 45 mins today - so we can live with that. I just wish it'd be consistent.
