I have a son who will be a year old on sunday. As of 11 months, he's been taking one nap a day. We held on to two naps for about a month before I couldn't get him to take 2 any longer, so we made the switch. And I have to say, he transitioned very well and takes a long nap (usually about 2 hours) at about 1pm. My question is this...everything I've read about the 2-1 nap transition talks about moving the bedtime to an earlier time in order to prevent overtiredness. The problem is that I can only get my son to sleep for about 10 hrs or 10 hrs, 15 mins at night (on rare occassions it's 10.5 hrs), so when I move the bedtime up to say 7:45, he's up by 6am the next morning (which is earlier than I'd like), plus on days like today it makes it very hard to push him to 1pm for his nap. By 12:30 he was so grumpy and I had a hard time settling him down b/c he was overtired. I guess my question is, how do you put them down earlier for bed w/o getting an earlier waking which throws off the next day and the next and the next. Is 7:45 too late? I can't imagine putting him down any earlier and I don't know if it is even reasonable for me to expect him to sleep longer at night when he's never slept 12 hours at night in his whole life? Do most people see lengthening of night sleep since their day sleep is shortened by the 2-1 nap switch? Is 10 hours a reasonable night's sleep? Should I shorten his only nap of the day so that he may sleep a little more at night? 6am is just rough...my son has always been an early riser and I remember some months wishing that he would sleep till 6am, but now I feel like 6am is super early...especially considering every body I know has a baby that sleeps till 7 or 8am every morning. Just curious. Thanks.
