Hey Lauraims, my LO was 14 months. Now 15.5. I think she may have been trying to drop down to 1 nap from about 13.5 months but as she had a cold and molars moving I was placing the blame on short naps and difficulty in settling down to that. I got advice from one of the ladies here who suggested I try 1 nap and as her sleeps at daycare were shocking I figured we would give it a go.
To begin with it was all a bit of a mess, we were have ew from about 5:30-6:15 so I think the first couple of days there was no way I could get her to 11am as she would have been awake 5.5hours, which I was terrified of
I messed about with a cn between 8:30-9:30 for a few days and had a couple of looooong afternoons, but she was sound asleep by 6pm so we had a couple of bonuses! In that first week she was only doing 40 minutes stretches and I'd resettle with some bum rubbing and shushing. I spent a couple of days sitting beside the cot to anticipate her waking and push her through. Then we had a couple of 90 min runs and two weeks down and 90 mins were stretching to 120 and 120+ I haven't had to resettle since she stretched to 90mins plus. Sometimes for me I need to set a time in my head "if she sleeps 90 mins I'll be happy" and then I don't try and resettle. Does that make sense?
Daycare days are messy, she wont cn in the morning so can do 5.5-6 A in the morning and because she has such poor sleeps there her afternoon A time can be about the same. It was seeing her do this and realising that she was ok that gave me the confidence to push her A time at home as well. My LO has always been really good with set times for naps. I never got good tired signs so found it easier to just push to the chosen time and have only recently looked at the A time. Most days now my aim is 11:45 but try and be flexible 15 mins either side.
Does that help?