Hoping for quick answer if poss - should I wake from nap?

[creations]

Hi.  I've been trying to get back on track from OT and EW and have managed to encourage extended naps (from 40 mins to over an hour, sometimes 2 hours, I only did shush pat one day and it had the effect of encouraging the longer naps daily).
Today:
woke 5.40 (I consider this EW)
E 6.05
A stayed in bedroom, quiet A time, trying to give him the idea that it's still night
S 7 - 8 (1hr) then we got up properly
E 9.45
A
S 10.25 - now (so far 2hr 20 min)

We've been on 3 hr EASY for ages, worked fine until recent disruptions to naps leading to OT. I am allowing some flexibility in naps to get through the OT but also think he is self transitioning to a longer A and E.  He's 18 wks but wants more like a 2hr 15 to 2.5 hr A time, maybe because he was 13 days over at birth making him maybe like a 5 months old???

Should I wake him?  Worried this long nap will have a bad effect on his schedule but I also know we'll be out this afternoon and he might not get the nap he needs then?

[Roseii]

Sorry this is late hun not sure if you have already woken him, personally if I know DD2 won't get a good afternoon nap I wouldn't wake her...

xxx

[creations]

Thank you!  I didn't wake him, and eventually he woke after a 2hr 50 sleep!!

[Roseii]

Great

[creations]

Just thought I'd feedback on how the afternoon went after that long morning nap.

I dropped him off at 2.30 with the instructions that he'd been fed and changed, and would be very much ready for playing but would need wind down time and sleep around 3.15 to 3.30 (hard to tell when he'd like to nap after that long one but I guessed that around 2 hrs to 2hrs 15 min A would be about all he could manage) and that would be a good time to go for a walk in the pram.  I collected him at 4pm and he'd had no sleep, no walk and the poor thing looked totally exhausted.  I was then told LO wasn't sleepy until 3.40 (find that very hard to believe esp looking at how red his eyes were) and they'd decided not to put him in his pram for a nap as he'd have to be disturbed at 4pm when I collected him.  grrrrr!  He could have at least had 30 - 45 mins if they'd followed instructions (which might well have been enough to get him through to bed time), plus if he was sleeping in his pram I could have walked him for a further 30 mins or so before driving him home, I'd do that to keep him from being OT.

He managed 5 mins nap in the car and then I tried to take him straight to bed but he was so OT he then couldn't get off to sleep...
...screaming, crying, thrashing...
onto the next E (which I gave early considering what a rough afternoon he was having)...
then still couldn't sleep... I had to hold him for 2 hours to keep him calm and he didn't even think about nodding off in my arms...
eventually after 5 hrs 45 mins A and another E he went to sleep with shush and pat for his night sleep after his normal bedtime routine.

Why won't people do as you ask when they have your child?  OK I don't really need an answer to that.