u/Final_Spare_9026

Transition to 1 nap help - SOS

Our baby has been sleep trained since 6 months. She is 18 months now. She has taken it to beautifully. She sleeps 11-12 hours a night. Here is her current schedule at two naps":

  1. Awake between 6:30-7am.
  2. Nap 3 hours after she wakes up, roughly around 10-10:30. She will sleep for about an hour.
  3. Next nap is around 2:30, she would sleep until 3:30.
  4. Bed between 7-7:30pm.

Since she hasn't napped for longer than 1:15 at a time (if we are lucky and she is really tired for some reason, she will sleep an 1:30, but that's very rare), we took it to mean she has not been ready to transition to 1 nap. We just started experimenting with one nap since we felt it was time given her age. We've attempted putting her down at 11, 11:30, 12, or 12:30. All of these naps resulted in a 50-minute nap. No more than one hour on our best days. Then she is just up for about 7 hours, which she's fine with. She's not cranky, doesn't freak out, and goes down just fine for bed. What are we doing wrong? This is miserable, because we cannot get this transition nailed, so the day time is just a mess.

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u/Final_Spare_9026 — 2 days ago

Help with transition to 1 nap

Our baby has been sleep trained since 6 months. She is 18 months now. She has taken it to beautifully. She sleeps 11-12 hours a night. Here is her current schedule at two naps":

  1. Awake between 6:30-7am.

  2. Nap 3 hours after she wakes up, roughly around 10-10:30. She will sleep for about an hour.

  3. Next nap is around 2:30, she would sleep until 3:30.

  4. Bed between 7-7:30pm.

Since she hasn't napped for longer than 1:15 at a time (if we are lucky and she is really tired for some reason, she will sleep an 1:30, but that's very rare), we took it to mean she has not been ready to transition to 1 nap. We just started experimenting with one nap since we felt it was time given her age. We've attempted putting her down at 11, 11:30, 12, or 12:30. All of these naps resulted in a 50-minute nap. No more than one hour on our best days. Then she is just up for about 7 hours, which she's fine with. She's not cranky, doesn't freak out, and goes down just fine for bed. What are we doing wrong? This is miserable, because we cannot get this transition nailed, so the day time is just a mess.

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u/Final_Spare_9026 — 2 days ago