2-1 and nursery in Jan - what next??

[*Becky*]

yuck - I hate those starts. We get them too. x

[becky1969]

londonmama -- I think you're not going to have a lot of luck keeping that nap at 1 for the next month.  His A time is going to grow, and he's just going to need that nap to be later in order for it to be a decent length.  Right now you're keeping it at 1 at the expense of nights, which is causing you the EWs.  Those EWs will then REALLY screw up your days b/c he'll have a hard time making it to 9:30 for lousy 30 min nap! So, you might just have to let him do his own 2-1 thing, and then just hope nursery will take things as they are when he gets there.

In other words, I'd probably give him that 30 min at 9:30 and then I'd give him nap #2 at 1:30 at the earliest.  Then, if nap 2 is still short, I'd move the 9:30 nap a little later to shorten the A time between naps. 

henry1: yes, move AM nap later and keep it short.  PM nap will probably be fine where it is, but you may have to move it a bit later as well.

[*Becky*]

Thanks Becky
If you get any time please could you pop over to my post and see what you think. I remember you gave us some great help when all this started in September. Thanks x

[koe2moe]

Good luck to both Londonmama and Henry1.

Becky thanks for your reply.  Right now DS (and both DH and I) are having the second round of terrible cold!!!  (From the daycare )  A time is of course very short.  Once things have settled, I'll see what the new A times will be.  AND I just discovered that perhaps the main reason why DS would never sleep longer than 30mins nap was that his room was just not dark enough!  We boarded up the windows until we have time to go to a shop.  He slept through the night coughing his lungs out but slept right through!!   poor boy!!!  We are all coughing our lungs out also... *cough cough*

[becky1969]

Boo on the illness, but yay on discovering the dark thing!!! I love when you discover little fixes like that! I hope that goes a long way towards helping you!