Support Thread for 2-1 Nap Transition cont'd pt 4

[Papaya]

Oh I do most of it with her - she loves to help almost too much! But there are some things that I can't do with her, yk?  Hope your DS is feeling better soon! Bet he needs all the sleep he can get atm 

[*Kara*]

Nuala - I totally know what you mean about helping too much!  Laundry is DD's fav chore and it's exhausting to try and outpace her with the folding as she manages to unfold just as quickly some days LOL!

jande... hugs hun.  Hope he is better soon!

[j.and.e]

Thanx ladies! E bit bettr, but now J has chicken pox! Xx

[*Kara*]

ACK!

[j.and.e]

Yep! Stuck at home with 2sick kiddies! Xx

[Charlygirl]

Hi girls...needing some help with the 2-1 transition...DD is nearly 14months and was doing a long am nap of 1.5hrs at about 1015 and then a forty min pm nap about 2pm...but for the past week she refused to take pm nap so suspected she was ready to take 1nap....so I kept her up till 1120 and tried to give her a long nap but she still only napped 1hr30. Wouldn't hv a cn later that day so was very OT by BT. That was yesterday. So today I went back to two naps but thought I'd try a short am, long pm nap, put her in cot at about 10am, she fell asleep at 1020, I woke her at 11am. Then did pm nap at 145, she fell asleep at 2pm and woke at 330pm.  She was pretty tired and cranky at By 630, put her to bed at 7 and she was veer upset and cried and moaned, fell asleep at 730. 
Anyways, not really sure what to do from here, she naturally wants to hv a longer AM nap but this makes the PM nap such a mission or non existent.  If I do the short Am nap, longer pm nap I feel like maybe there is not long enough Atime till bed.   And she struggled pretty badly the day of 1nap so don't think she's quite ready for that yet.....so yeah I'm confused....any ideas?!?
Thanks, Charly.

[jillc]

Okay, I need some advice or support. My DD is nearly 18 months. We went cold turkey to one nap almost a month ago. Before that we'd had a couple months of limiting the am nap to 1 hour in order to get an afternoon nap (also was 1 hr- didn't lengthen even though we shortened the am nap). My issue is that I can't seem to get a nap much longer than 1hr 15mins. Here's our schedule- let me know if anyone sees any issues:
6:15/6:30ish wake-up, nap 12:15/30ish for just over an hour, bedtime at 7:30. She goes to sleep just fine for nap and bedtime. I've never gotten more than 11 hrs at night for any length of time and daylight savings has just helped "solve" our early wake time so I'm super hesitant to try an earlier bedtime for fear of EWs. When we first transitioned to one nap she was taking a 2hr nap for about a week straight. Since then, it's holding steady at just over an hour. She's a major grump all afternoon until around 6 then she's cheery until bedtime.

Should I stay the course? She seems too old to try to re-institute 2 naps. She still gets crabby around her old morning nap time though. I thought that would have passed by now. At least spring time is here so we can get outside and run around to get out the grumpies. Thanks all!

[*Kara*]

I think her first A time could be a touch too long given that she has just moved to one nap... really, most LO's are at about 5 hrs for their morning A time for the first while, slowly moving to 6 hrs.  We just got to 6 hrs after 4 months of one nap

[j.and.e]

Kara, what pm A do u do if u get a short nap? We have tried 1nap as 15mo Ds2 has been refusing am nap, or doing 2 short naps. Consistantly waking at 5ish. The 1nap days have been mostly short eg 1.15-1.30 naps. Y'day he did up 6.15 nap 12-1.20 Bt 6.20. I tried nap at 10.30, 11 and 1 and dont get a gd nap. If i do early nap is hard to get a cn and then he has a long A to bed. I am trying to push bt late to get a later WU. Xx

[*Kara*]

When DD was really in the middle of the transition, I set BT and nap time as best I could without her losing her mind   WU was 630am, nap was 1130 - whenever, BT was 7pm.  If she short napped, I kept her at home with low key/low stimulation and put her down no earlier than 645pm.  It only took a couple of weeks for her to sort it out... there were some UGLY days in there though!  Up at 545am, 1 hr 10 min naps... we even had a 7 hr A to EBT!

[jillc]

Okay, I'm trying a shorter morning A time. That could be why she was sleeping so well during the first week of transition- we were putting her down earlier that I have been lately. Up at 6:15 this morning and just put her down at 11:30 so we'll see how long she goes. If she still only does an hour it's gonna be a looooong 7 hours to bedtime. I'm really trying to avoid bedtime earlier than 7:30 cause she seems to only sleep 10.5-11hrs per night and I don't want EWs to rear their ugly head again.

[jillc]

Update- slept for nearly 2 hours! Amazing! Put her down 30-45mins earlier. And she just woke up happy instead of fussy. Thanks Kara!

[*Kara*]

EXCELLENT!!!    Don't be afraid of EBT during the transition   My DD never slept longer than 10 hrs at night (once she started STTN) and she did a few 12 hr nights during the move   Remember that OT will give you an EW for sure!  Better to put her down a bit early if needed. 

[j.and.e]

Thanks! Did 2naps 2day as he pasd out at 10am. Bt at 7pm ... Am expecting wu pre 5am tomorow. Ugh xx

[*Kara*]

LOL!