Support Thread for 2 to 1 nap transition cont.

[Julianne1984]

Hey, yesterday T had a short AM and long PM nap, sleep at 7:45, up at 5:35am today... better than 4/5am... but still too early xxx

How's everyone doing? Xx

[shresmummy]

We're struggling. No amount of playing around with A times and naps is making my nights or my bedtime antics any easier. I tried the 20 min AM nap, the 30 min and I'm still at a loss But sounds like you had a good day yesterday, although today started too early! It's always a no-win with these kids isn't it?

[JaspersMum]

Sorry to hear things aren't going too well Priya.

We've been a bit better over here.  The teeth aren't bothering him as much.  We've had two days of a 35/40m am nap and a 1.5/1.75 pm nap.  I'm noticing though I really need to keep the am nap to 30m and the pm nap to 1.5 to not get an early waking.  I have to be careful about how I arrange his 13 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period.  As for A times we are doing:

Wake
4 hrs A time
30m nap
3.5 hrs A time
1.5 hour nap
3.5 hrs A time
bed

[shresmummy]

Hey Rachel, I'm finding that as well. I really need to do the 30 min AM nap looks like it. But the problem I'm running into is that after her PM nap she just won't go to bed in anything less than a 4.5 hr A time! Then the day gets waaaaay too long for my liking. BUt I just can't seem to think of a way to move that PM nap up anymore because she had a bad night last night after I tried a 20 min Am nap day. But maybe the problem in that was that I didn't do the right A time after that short AM nap before the PM nap. But she had a good PM nap and woke up refreshed at her usual time but ended up having a really bad night.

[Julianne1984]

Sorry will catch up on Sunday...so busy!! Ugh.

Well T is definitely teething... joy!

On a good note his cold is gone yay, and he woke at 6am today and had 30m AM nap, 1hr 20m PM nap,bed at 7pm. So not all bad! Hope you're all doing ok. Xxx

[Brodster'sMommy]

Hi Ladies,

I hope you don't mind me jumping in. DS is 13 months and after struggling with Multiple night wakes for months (even with a short am nap and longer pm) I finally decided to try 1 nap. Actually DS made that decision for me when he refused his morning nap yesterday so he woke at 7, napped from 11:40-1:15, woke up happy, then went to bed by 6:40. I didn't hear a peep out of him (so so rare) until 4 am when he decided it was time to get up!! So does this mean DS isn't ready for 1 nap or that I need to stick to 1 nap but change things?

Thanks for reading this. This 2-1 stuff is so hard!!!

[JaspersMum]

Hi Brodster'sMommy!

We've had a few of those days where we can easily do 1 nap.  I hear that once LOs can do 4.5 hours A time then you can try a few one nap days and then a do a few 2 nap days to catch up.

I don't know all your circumstances but your 4am wake up call may have been due to OT.  You probably needed to do a 5.45pm bedtime, i.e. 4.5 hours from wake up.

[Brodster'sMommy]

Thanks for your response!  Yesterday I tried pushing one nap again. Pretty much the same schedule and he's woken up every 2 hours tonight. It's currently 5 am and I just put him back to sleep but I can't sleep now. I'll try 2 naps today and see what I get. I'm super scared of early bedtimes though! I've never put him down before 6:30pm.

[Brodster'sMommy]

Ok. I tried 3 times to put him down for a morning nap and he screamed his head off. So I waited until he was tired and he finally fell asleep at 12pm! I'm already dreading tonight. He usually doesn't take a nap any longer than 1.5 hours. Should I shoot for a 6pm bedtime? Or earlier? Or later? How do moms do this!?!

[mama T]

Hi Broadsters Mommy, sounds like my problem.  We made a sudden switch to one nap when DS starting refusing his afternoon nap and won't sleep at all a second time during the day.  He now gets up between 6.30 and 7 and goes down 5 hours after that.  Then depending on the nap which varies from 1 to 2 hours he either goes to be early or not.  But I only let him have about 4.5 hours after the nap.  Thats meant many nights down at 6pm and it really doesn't seem to cause him to wake up early at all, in fact if I get hime down early he sleeps better. 

Just now am having different issues with teething and a sore tummy but if I can just get that one nap consistently to 2 hours will be happy.  Try the early nights they seem to help us. 

[JaspersMum]

Yeah, from what I've read when you jump to one nap 'early bed is king!'.  I'm scared too of doing bedtime much earlier than 6.30pm!  Will be dreading that once we go to one nap!  But like Mama T said, LO will probably sleep better.

I think too, once you are on one nap consistently for around 2 weeks, they get used to the new schedule and will start lengthening their nap and being much happier - so I'm told!

[Julianne1984]

Can just about keep my eyes open uugh...

Welcome to the board Bnroadsters Mommy!

Well yesterday LO woke at 5am. We had to go visit family with OH's parents so we weren't at all incontrol ofwhen he slept. He slept 45m in the car at 9:15am (we weren't in our car) and he was awake until 4pm!! he slept until 5pm, because they bloody went the long way home, so was up until after 8pm. He then woke at 1:30, 2:15, 2:30, 3, 3:30am and up at 5:25. -lm so tired, OH been at work all night,not back until 11:30pm so I'm still on my own for a good few hrs yet. I'm not going with T in their car again. They ignored when I said T needed to sleep, and it messed the whole night up! ARGH!! Xx

[JaspersMum]

Gosh Julianne, what a terrible night!  Don't you wish sometimes you could forego the get togethers and have no social life so your LO can sleep well?!  Sometimes . . . !!

We've had a screwy 24 hours . . great naps yesterday but shocking bedtime, and then today I let him sleep too long in the am to make up for last night but it backfired and I got no pm nap so bedtime tonight is screwed up too - all thanks to the social life!

[Julianne1984]

I said to OH before we went that he'll have to tell his Mum that T's sleep is important at the minute, but she kept saying "he'll sleep all the way home" ...er yeah you have him all night then next time! See how much you take notice of his sleep then! Lol.

I dont know when to do a nap. He only had 9hrs sleep, not including the NW's... so prob only 8-8.5

Ugh so sleepy. Hope your night goes ok.xx

[Julianne1984]

A 5:20
S 9:00... 11am still asleep!! Obviously needing it x