Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.

[Julianne1984]

Well... guess who slept until 6:40am today! No NW's, 12h20m sleep!! we've been on one nap for a month now with 1-2days of 2 naps... maybe it's starting to work...? How long should it take for him to get used to it? I bet he'll be up at 5 tomorrow hehe xx

[scucci1979]

He loves his mommy!

Jullanne: you are giving me hope!  I can get 3 one nap days out of 7 from my lo.  There is light at the end of the tunnel. After a one nap day yesterday, she woke up at 6:50am and was utterly exhausted during the morning.  So, I had to move her nap earlier and am planning to give her a CN later.  Funny, because, I question what I am doing is right! Sigh!

[Julianne1984]

Well I must say I'm dreading the morning as I know it'll be an early one! Today will have just been fluke. I've even had to wake him fron naps recently, as last week he napped 3hrs and woke early the next day lol. It just got to a point of being un-solvable (the ew's) going cold turkey to one nap was the last straw! X

[scucci1979]

I have also noticed that when my lo has a three hour nap she will wake up earlier the next day.   

[JaspersMum]

You really have to juggle the total amount of sleep in a 24 period don't you, and its harder when they are OT because you want to let them sleep.  I'm finding anymore than 2 hours for a nap leads to a shorter night.  The last few days have been great:

Sat
Wake - 7.10am
Nap - 11.50am - 1.50pm
Bed - 6.50am - 7am!

Sun
Wake - 7am
Nap - 12 - 1.45pm ?
Bed - 8.05 (we were out for dinner)

Today
Wake - 7.35!
Nap - 12.10 -

[Julianne1984]

5:45 x

[scucci1979]

sorry for the 5:45 wake up. HUGS!!

Rachel: You are exactly right! When she has two naps, her total day sleep is 2hrs and 15min and I have to wake her the next morning. With one nap, she will sleep close to 3hours and will wake up a little earlier the next day.  I don't want to limit her one nap as I am sure she needs it and it also pushes bedtime a little later. Frustrating!  I ask myself, why am I messing with something that is fine at the moment. She doesn't fight her naps. Then again, I know she needs a little push with the transitioning.

[shresmummy]

Hey ladies, I"m back again. Happy New Year to you all. Doesn't it seem like it will never end? We were on a good run for a week or so and then the teething kicked in

Just wanted to add I also have noticed that if DD has anything more than 2hr 15 min sleep on 1 nap days her nights are bad due to NW and she also wakes up earlier the next day. The other thing I found critical is that she really does need 5hr A time on either side of the nap. Even 15 mins earlier and she fusses to fall asleep at bedtime.

Julianna, sorry about the EW again.
Rachel, hope you have a good day!

I can't figure out whether our NWs are because of teething, or a need for routine tweaking I wonder if I'll ever work it out!!

[scucci1979]

Well Madi woke up at 5am and was in and out of sleep and moaning until 7am.  I think I should of gave her one nap yesterday as opposed to two. I don't know if she was UT or OT.  She went down easily for her 15 CN but am not sure if she was a little OT at bedtime or her CN was too close to bedtime.  She was asleep by 7:40pm. Today is going to be a two nap day and hopefully tomorrow a one nap day. 

[JaspersMum]

We are back to EWs . . this morning 6am and yesterday 6.30am.  Oh I know 6.30am aint bad but I was so getting used to him waking after 7am!  I think he is OT.  I probably should be giving him some two nap days but I'm too scared!  Monday he was the happiest I've seen him in ages!  Except that he woke from his two hour nap still looking tired.  He's still fighting bedtime!!  And yesterday my mum put him down too late and he fell asleep in the car ride home which he hasn't done in months! (which probably explains this morning's EW!)  I'm soooooooo tired of this constant thinking about routines.  I thought we were getting somewhere.  The more I think about it, the more I have to stick to a 12 hour day and I think for DS, he needs 4.5 hrs A time in the am, and 5.5 hrs A time in the pm.

[shresmummy]

Hey Rachel, join the club. I'm so over always having to constantly think about what I"m doing and how it's a'ffecting DD's routine. I too thought we were getting somewhere, but the past 2 days haven't been that great. We've had a fair few NW, although they were brief, at least 3 NWs nonetheless.

Yesterdays she had a good 2hr nap and woke up but after going to bed woke up crying after 50 mins. Is that OT? And then woke up again last night around 1:30, then 4:45 and 5:45 Then woke around 7AM today.

I still did 1 nap today and she wasn't tired or anything before 12 but she only slept until 1:20 and then refused to go back to sleep!! aaaaugh!!! I tried my best until about 2PM but she started screaming and wanted to get out.

I did bedtime at 6:30, but she woke up again after 50 mins tonight too. Perhaps try for a 2 nap day tomorrow?

[*Becky*]

Hi everyone
I feel your pain! DS is being a monkey again after a goodish 2 weeks.
Cannot figure him out. Have had a couple of 5.30am's which we have not had for a while. Still 11 hours of sleep but cannot work out if OT or UT. Fighting naps again and we are now down to 20 min am but he still will not any longer in the pm. Yesterday was 50 mins and the day before 1.10. We don't get NW's though at the moment so is it OT or UT??? I guess he should be on one nap but he just wakes so early - it is really hard.
bx

[scucci1979]

 It is very frustrating! I feel your pain.  Normally, for us EWs was normally OT.

[greenteamomma]

ahhh, here we go again.  Looking for some support.  I have been following your ADVENTURES! 

My lo will be 1 next week.  We have been doing short morning and long pm naps.  About a week now we have been down to 30 min naps.  Here is what it looks like:

Wake 6:00 (being generous!)
nap 9:45 ish wake him after 30 then
3 hrs 15 mins of A time
Nap 1:30 ish till 3:30 ish, sometimes 3:45
Put to Bed around 7:30~ rolls around usually quiet by 7:45

We are having more and more EW and he is starting to resist the pm nap so the last two days 3 hrs 30 mins of A time.  I can hear him talking to his sooky and rolling around.  The naps have gone down some too. 

When should I start to transition to a shorter nap?  He's doing 3.5 hrs of A time on a 30 min nap!!!!  Just trying to avoid the dreaded OT monster. 
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[hjrmom01]

greenteamomma, I think we cut down to 20 min when H went to 3.5 hrs on 30 min. I found his nap shortened and he just wasn't quite tired enough so we went to 20 min...we've been there for 2 months now...and now I think we need help!

H has been on 20 min am nap for 2 months now.  Nap 1 is usually from 10:30-10:50 (shoot for 7am wakeup but he hangs on until then even if it's a 6am wake), nap 2 is anywhere from 2-2:15 and I used to wake him at 3:45 and bedtime between 7:45 and 8.  We've done 2 one nap days and both times we had 3+hr NW.  I'm sure he's OT but I just can't get him to sleep anymore!  He's up there screaming his head off for his pm nap. He had 20 min and I got him up at 10:45, it's now 2:05 and he's not asleep yet.  I'm assuming he's OT hyper as he was bouncing off the walls.  It's so hard when you can't tell when they are tired!