Naps suddenly changed at 11 months?

[lulaloo]

Hey everyone!

I'm hoping maybe I could get some advice. My daughter is 11 months old, and we're trying to get her to sleep through the night using PU/PD. In the meantime, she's always followed a good nap schedule, and that's helped somewhat with night wakings. However, recently (in the last two weeks) she's proven SO hard to get down for her naps, like her nap window is either shorter, or I'm misreading her cues and she needs more activity time, but I can't figure out how drastically to change it. Here's our day
Wakes 6.45
E (BF) 6.45
A (back in her crib) 7.00
E (solids) 7.30
S 9.15-9.30 (Usually two hours after waking)
Wakes 11.15
E (solids) 11.15
A 11.45
E (solid & BF) 12.45
S 1.15
Wakes 3.15
E (solids) 3.15
A 3.45
E 6.00 (BF & solids)
A (including bath) 6.30
S 7.30-7.45

Problem is, now it takes me an hour or more to get her down at those nap times - yesterday she didn't go down until 4 for her 1pm nap. Is she getting too little activity time? Could someone suggest what sort of nap time might work better at this age?

Thanks!

Lisa

[deckchariot]

I'm guessing you're starting the 2 to 1 nap switch....have you checked out these links:  http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=95670.0 and http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=41952.0

If it looks like that fits, you may want to head over here:  http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=155604.0 for some great support from other mums who are also going through the switch.

hth
michelle

[lulaloo]

Michelle,

This is exactly what we're dealing with, except that my little one is fighting her afternoon nap even more than the morning one. I'm going to push the afternoon nap to a late afternoon cat nap today, and see how that works. Also, I'd been pushing her bedtime later when she did a late afternoon cat nap and that wasn't helping, so maybe keeping an early bedtime with the catnap at 4 might help.

Thank you so much for posting this. It's almost exactly on cue, and makes perfect sense!!

Lisa

[deckchariot]

glad I could help