2 to 1 transition SOS
LO is 14 mos. Has been showing signs of readiness for one nap for about 2 months and we finally stretched the first ww long enough to get to one nap sometimes. Fairly low sleep needs— we were on a 4/3/4 schedule and one nap was usually about an hour and the other one thirty minutes. Started emw and getting really hard to get him asleep for a second nap most days.
Anyway, now I try for 5/6 and a single hour and a half nap. Sometimes he only naps 30 mins on this schedule and I save the nap. Overnight though has REALLY gotten rough since this transition. Mostly split nights, with a lot of tossing and turning now— his sleep just does not seem restorative. So then I end up doing a one nap day only every other day bc after a crappy nights sleep, he can’t hang 5 hours. Is this something I just need to stick out while his circadian rhythm adjusts? ive seen sometimes it’s suggested now that the first wake is the longest, even though his whole life I always saw last wake window should be the longest one. Thanks in advance, sleep is so hard.