15 mth old transition from 2-1 nap (only taking one 1.5 hour nap) OT little man

[jyr838]

Hello,

I am new to this and have  LOTS of questions. But I'll try to curb my enthusiasm.

My son is 15 months old and has been fighting his afternoon nap sometimes rolling around awake for 1.25 hours before we finally go in there an get him out. We are trying to figure out our transition and this is where we are at currently.


w/u:6:45/7
E:7:30/7:45 (Breakfast)
A:7:45-11:15am
E:11:15 (Lunch)
S:12-1:30 (he wakes up on his own)

E:2:30 (snack)
A:1:30-4:15
S: 4:15pm (putting him down hopping he'll cat nap but he likely won't)

A:5:00-9:00
E: 6:00 Dinner
S: 8:30/9pm sleep (BT)

If he doesn't take the afternoon catnap should I try putting him to bed earlier? (7pm?) I'm just worried that this means he is going to wake up super early the next morning.

Will his nap eventually get longer? with it being only 1.5 hours that's basically the length of one of his naps when he was taking 2 a day.

Lastly, what happens next? do I keep pushing back the nap so that it's around 1pm instead?

Any thoughts, ideas or opinions would be greatly appreciated or other posts just to commiserate are welcome too!

Juni

[jyr838]

Any input, feedback or help is much appreciated!

[HenaV]

Hi Juni and welcome!

It sounds to me as though your LO is ready to transition to 1 nap. There are a couple if things you could try given he's resisting the afternoon CN:

1. EBT perhaps even as early as 6.30 given he's awake from 1.30. That's a long A time at his age. If you push it too far you could end up with EW as a result of OT.

2. CN in the morning say for 30m

So with a 7am WU you may want to try 11am with a at 1.30 for up to 2h At least that way, if the afternoon nap is not good you can still EBT.

Yes the idea is to eventually get rid of the CN by reducing it and bringing the afternoon nap forward to compensate. If you kept the afternoon CN, you'd simply do it the other way around - push the nap out and reduce the PM CN.

Does that make sense? What do you think?

Hena

[jyr838]

Hi Hena!

So here's an update: yesterday he didn't take that afternoon catnap and just rolled around for about 30 minutes.
SO we got him up at 4:45 and this is what the rest of day yesterday and this morning looked like:

E:5:30pm dinner
EBT: 7:30pm (we put him down at 7 but he ended up falling asleep after 30 minutes of rolling around quietly)

W/U: 6:50am
E:7:35 (breakfast and milk)
E: 11:15am lunch
A:6:50am- 12:00pm
S:12:10pm-3:10pm (3 hours...which sounds good but he woke up at around 1:30 for about 35 minutes and rolled around in bed - Is this normal???)

E:3:45pm - snack
E: 6:30 dinner
A:3:10pm-9:00pm
BT: 9:00pm (rolled around for about 10 minutes and fell asleep)

He seems to handle 6 hours of awake time with little fuss (unlike before when he was awake for 7+ hours he would whine and fuss and be super irritable) today before bed he was pretty good, took a nice bath, read some books then he fell asleep within 10 min of us putting him down.

I figured I would give the one nap cold turkey one more try before taking a couple steps back and re-introducing a cat nap.

I'm just not sure if the whole rolling around for 35 minutes in the middle of his nap is normal.

Does the plan we have so far seem like our LO is getting enough sleep? That's always my concern.

Thanks,

Juni

[HenaV]

I don't think rolling around for 35m mid nap is a huge deal myself, at least your LO did self settle a did get a decent nap. For me, I'd aim for a 13h day max to reduce the risk of OT. So with a 7am WU I'd aim for an 8pm BT which in the day you had with such a good nap would hopefully have worked.

I'd stick with it my lovely. Really positive update, I'll keep my fx'd for you x