time to drop to 1 nap?

[*happy*]

DD2 has been taking ages (up to 40mins) to fall asleep for her catnap. Time to phase it out?!

Our current EASY is:
Wake 7 am
A  of 4hours
S at 11 till 1

Then I would put her back into the cot 3.5 hours after she woke from her nap. This was working up till last week,when she might take 10 mins of shuffling around till she fell asleep. Today though I tried to do an A of 3 hours 40 and there were tears and resistence.
Not sure what to do. I was only letting her sleep 30.mins but cut that today and yesterday to 20.mins. she goes down for the night 2 hours 30 mins after she wakes from the catnap.

I'd like to keep the long morning nap....but not sure if I should let her sleep longer than 2 hours for her 1st nap  (we wake after 2 hours ) or if I should cap it more.to try for a better catnap?
I'm so confused!!!!

Apologies for the ramble!!!

[RebekahDSC]

Oh, the joys of the 2 to 1! 

What worked for us when my DD hit this point was making the first nap shorter (capping it earlier.) Over time we capped it earlier and earlier so that eventually it became a 20 min cat nap while the second nap was the long one.

At one point I tried jumping to one nap but she ended up overtired until we reinstated the first cat nap. So I'd definitely recommend trying that before jumping to one nap.

Hope that helps 

[*happy*]

Thanks hun....im hoping to keep that first nap as the long one though cause that's when DD1 naps too....just being awkward!!!!

[Haribo2012]

Hi, personally long am nap worked best for us as was the most predictable and I could never get a decent pm nap after a morning CN.
During 2-1 my DS often had a 2.5-3 hour nap and still pulled a 11.5-12 hour night.
I'd try nap uncapped and see what happens...does EBT work?x

[*happy*]

We'll see I guess!!!! Will try that today....

[Haribo2012]

Hope the naps going well x

[*happy*]

Slept till 2.05pm. 2 hours 20 mins. Doing bedtime now....fingers crossed!

[Haribo2012]

Good luck  x

[RebekahDSC]

Best wishes!