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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #30 on: December 02, 2013, 18:57:20 pm »
Thanks Tink.

Yeah she was taking 1.5 to 2 hr for both naps before the transition and EW started so I'm not sure...  Today I tried for the long am nap but she only slept for about 1 hr 10 min - I think I trained her too well to wake after 1 hr!

I'll play around a little more.  Just starting to accept the 5:30 wAkeup - hate having a cranky babes



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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #31 on: December 12, 2013, 15:09:21 pm »
Ok so we have had a 6ish wAkeup with a 1-1.5 hr am nap and a 1 hr pm nap.  She shows tired signs around 8:30am so I feed her and she perks up and doesn't show any tired signs after that...

The past couple of days she has really been resisting naps and bedtime.  I've been putting her down for her nap around 9:45 or 10 am and she has to be rocked to sleep or she just screams.  I have been leaving her more with DH or sitters so there might be some SA creeping in...

No tired signs for pm nap but I usually try to put her down around 3 and wake her at 4pm.


Her bedtime has been 7:15pm for a long time but last night was unusual - she didn't fall asleep until 7:30 or so which usually she goes down immediately.  And she's had a couple of nw here and there for a minute where she cries out and then goes back to sleep.

Should I try one nap?
Thanks for the advice as always!  She's been very happy lately however.  Except when I try to put her down haha


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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #32 on: December 12, 2013, 15:36:05 pm »
Hi violets mom!

Your routine sounds a little like ours at the min, have you tried a shorter PM nap? M now does AM nap at 10am for about 1hr 10 to 1hr 30 and PM nap is around 40 mins i like her to be awake no later than 3.45 so that she is tired enough for BT. Could you try shortening that PM nap a little more?

Hope all is well other than the EW 😁
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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #33 on: December 12, 2013, 16:40:31 pm »
Thanks jodes - miss the ladies in the birth club!

I've tried the shorter naps a couple weeks ago but she is just so miserable afterwards that I'd rather have a EW haha.

 Just trying to determine if we need to try some one nap days before she begins daycare next month  :'(


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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #34 on: December 12, 2013, 17:33:42 pm »
It really is up to you, but if she is cranky after a 45min nap she is going to be REALLY cranky on a one nap day  ;)  I would try cutting that pm nap down to 45min before trying one nap days.

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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #35 on: December 12, 2013, 17:44:07 pm »
Aww bless her. I would see also trying to cut down that PM nap (even if its 5 mins per cut down) to ease her into it!

Its so hard! Hope you figure something out x
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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #36 on: December 12, 2013, 21:12:16 pm »
Waking her in 5 mins - wish me luck!  Had to APOP her to sleep and she didn't fall asleep until 3:30!  Ugh.

Yeah tink you are totally right about her being miserable on a one nap day - didn't even cross my mind!  That's why I love this site  :D


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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #37 on: January 03, 2014, 16:51:57 pm »
Ok so we've had three one nap days over the holidays and she actually held up nicely!  But that was mixed in with 2 nap days.  I'm doing long am short pm now and wondering just how short her pm should be.  Yest am nap was 1 hr 35 min, so I did a half hour pm nap and she woke at 5am for a 15 min party but thankfully put herself to sleep until 7:15! 

So right now we are heading towards noon and no sign of needing a nap...  I'm going to put her down at noon now.  How short of a pm nap do y'all do?


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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #38 on: January 03, 2014, 20:55:58 pm »
If she has a 1.5hr am nap, I keep pm nap at 30min :)

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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #39 on: January 04, 2014, 09:16:11 am »
Agree we would have a 30 min nap after a 1.5 AM nap!

Sounds like your heading on the right track! X
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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #40 on: January 04, 2014, 12:06:26 pm »
Yeah we had a 12-2:15 nap yesterday and she was pretty tired and ready for bed by 6:30 but I kept her up til 7 - she woke at 6:15am so I think today will be a 2 nap day.  Guess I am alternating much like ll&j.


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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #41 on: January 06, 2014, 21:15:36 pm »
Just read through some of your posts. Wanted to mention that with DS we kept 2 naps for a while, but increased his overall length of day. Not sure exactly the time frame we did it in, but we pushed his BT from an original 6:45 to 7:30 in 15 minute intervals, over the course of a few months (WU was usually between 6:15/6:30). When he was about 12 months or so we also started keeping a light on in the hallway so he could "read" in his crib before falling asleep after BT at 7:30, some nights that was 10-15 minutes later, and on the rare occassion up to 30 minutes (after reading the book to him we put it in the crib for him and just closed his door when we knew he was sleeping). This way he was falling asleep when he was ready, and not forced to when we thought it was time. This didn't cause any BT resistance or EW's (never really had that issue) and it even helped that he would sometimes read in bed in the mornings before calling out for us to get him up.

Looking at DD now, she wouldn't be ready for reading with a light on yet, so your LO may not be ready for it yet either, but it's something to think about/consider when you have 2 nap days.

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Re: 2 to 1 transition routine help needed
« Reply #42 on: January 07, 2014, 02:04:00 am »
Ok thanks - we had a 4am cot party yesterday because I fell asleep trying to APOP her afternoon nap and we slept for half an hour instead of 15 mins haha.  She was with grandpa today so we will see how tonight goes - she's taking an 1.5 to 2 hr nap around 11am and I give her a little catnap later on and that was going well for a couple days (daycare wants her to take a nap at noon with the other kids eventually - they said she will be too busy to sleep until the other kids go down - luckily she doesn't take being OT too bad anymore)

Thanks for the idea - she loves books so I think she will like that!


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