Anyone else having a hard time with the transition to 1 nap?

[imimahoney]

It was a hard transition. For the longest time he would need to nap by 11 and that just wouldn't work with his bedtime. We slowly moved it back to 12:30. We tried to do 10 minutes later every day or so.. making sure the change was gradual. Eventually, he got used to being up longer in the morning before his nap time.

[muppetinma]

Andrew is a cranky mess by 10:30 or so, BUT he will only nap for 20-30 minutes. Then he fights the shit out of his afternoon nap. I don't know what he's trying to do. I've tried forcing naps and I've tried keeping him up. Nothing works.

[Deleted]

We still do two naps per day.

[Deleted]

Ada is also a mess! She's up at 7, naps 10-12:30ish and down between 7-8pm. She starts getting very dramatic around 5 though. I can get a short second one in if we to on a walk or she's in the car and that helps a lot! I have tried pushing the nap back but it hasn't worked so far, she freaks out 2.5-3 hours after she wakes up.

[angiekay84]

We are still at two naps, and pretty strong here. I don't see Sophia transitioning to two naps for awhile. Sometimes she fights a second nap if her first nap was more than an hour OR if she wasn't really active in between (like if we went grocery shopping between nap one and nap two and she sat in a cart for too long.) If she gets worn out at the park or at home playing, outside in a kiddy pool, etc, she will go down for the second nap no problem, which is most days.

Her first nap is one hour, second nap is 1.5 to 2. I DREAD going to one nap. The new daycare she starts in the fall automatically puts one year olds and older to one nap, so I guess we have the summer to see if she can adjust before daycare.

[devonpow]

May 30, 2013 20:18:31 GMT -5 angiekay84 said:

We are still at two naps, and pretty strong here. I don't see Sophia transitioning to two naps for awhile. Sometimes she fights a second nap if her first nap was more than an hour OR if she wasn't really active in between (like if we went grocery shopping between nap one and nap two and she sat in a cart for too long.) If she gets worn out at the park or at home playing, outside in a kiddy pool, etc, she will go down for the second nap no problem, which is most days.

Her first nap is one hour, second nap is 1.5 to 2. I DREAD going to one nap. The new daycare she starts in the fall automatically puts one year olds and older to one nap, so I guess we have the summer to see if she can adjust before daycare.

One nap is the bomb!! I remember dreading it so much with H, but oh my god life gets easier with one nap. Trust me!

E is still on two naps, but they are generally only an hour long, tops, each. I want him on one nap by July 1st (school gets out for H at the end of June, and I want a 1 nap schedule so we can actually do stuff and H isn't stuck inside all the time due to naps). I'm not looking forward to it - he is up by 6 AM and generally wants to nap at 8:30..... Eventually I need him on a schedule where he is up from his one nap by 2pm at the latest (for school pick up), so hopefully a schedule where he goes down around 11:30/12

[BlueNotebook]

The transition is sucking here too. He wakes up at 6 so I feel like he NEEDS two naps still but he doesn't agree. If he takes a morning nap, he takes forever to fall asleep and fights the afternoon nap. If he doesn't, he's falling apart by lunch at 11. There is no winning.

[vidalia]

We had a rough time with the transition too but N dropped to one nap around 9-10 months! I thought it was super early to drop her 2nd nap but when she decided she was done with it there was absolutely nothing we could do...and I feel like we tried everything.

When she first dropped it, she wanted to nap at 10-10:30 and I knew however long she napped that would be it for the day which sucked! I did slowly push it back but it took about a month to get it to noon. When she would be super tired in the late afternoon/early evenings during the transition we did a lot of sitting in her dark room listening to music or white noise and watching the projector on her sound machine. This seemed to help a lot because even if she wasn't sleeping she was resting a little bit. She's also not a car or stroller sleeper so we would go for a walk or drive to just get her to chill for a bit. We also did 6:45 bedtimes many days when she just couldn't make it any later.

I will say now I LOVE the one nap schedule, and I really never thought I would say that. It makes life so much more predictable and she really is getting the same amount of sleep as she did before. Good luck, it is definitely really tough on them and us!

[irish625]

At daycare, A naps around 1 or 1:30 for about 2 hours but on the weekends, she usually goes down by 11 am for a mid-day nap and that's it. She also gets up at about 6:30. I would try pushing back his morning nap so that it's more like 12-2:30 so he doesn't go so long until bedtime. Maybe play with him outside around 10:30 to keep him more alert?

[bigapple]

I wish it were rough. C dropped to one nap around 5-6 months and has only napped for 10-15 minutes the past four days. I really hope this will pass soon. He rarely gets cranky, which is good, but Mama needs a break!

[vthokie]

I was lucky that they transitioned her at day care. She naps from 12:30-2:30 there. She never used to nap here at all, but now I can get a nap out of her. Except today....when we had pictures and I needed her to NAP AND BE HAPPY!!! I think that trying to gradually push nap time a little alter is probably the best bet. I have a few 10-15 minute activities that I know will keep A's attention when I need to keep her up a little longer, like tonight when she was exhausted and wanted to go to bed like an hour early! See if you can figure out some quick things that can help you stretch time before nap time. Hope things get better soon.

[formerlyllizzyb]

If DS would just start the day at 7, I could easily stretch him until 11 am for a nap and then slowly inch more towards noon. But he insists on waking at 6 or sometimes 5:30 most days, so that can make for a freaking long cranky morning. I've just been trying to limit his am nap to no more than an hour.

After vacation next week I'm forcing one nap. I figure he'll be all off schedule anyways so it will be a natural time to change things up. I'd like him to end up going down between 12 and 1.

[mumegs]

We are doing it now and it's rough, she would normally take a short nap around 10 and a longer one around 1-2. She has dropped the morning one and moved the 2nd one up to about noon, but she is a mess by the time I get home from work. I've found we have to take a "rest", she will lay on me and kind of relax for about a half hour and then she can stay up until 8 or 9. Sometimes we can do an evening nap at 5 or 6 but lately she hasn't wanted that either.

[Deleted]

Wy still has 2 naps. He has no choice in the matter. Sleep dammit! lol. He is going to be going for one soon. He keeps pushing his morning nap later and later which results in a short/ late afternoon nap.

[angiekay84]

May 30, 2013 20:30:57 GMT -5 devonpow said:

May 30, 2013 20:18:31 GMT -5 angiekay84 said:

We are still at two naps, and pretty strong here. I don't see Sophia transitioning to two naps for awhile. Sometimes she fights a second nap if her first nap was more than an hour OR if she wasn't really active in between (like if we went grocery shopping between nap one and nap two and she sat in a cart for too long.) If she gets worn out at the park or at home playing, outside in a kiddy pool, etc, she will go down for the second nap no problem, which is most days.

Her first nap is one hour, second nap is 1.5 to 2. I DREAD going to one nap. The new daycare she starts in the fall automatically puts one year olds and older to one nap, so I guess we have the summer to see if she can adjust before daycare.

One nap is the bomb!! I remember dreading it so much with H, but oh my god life gets easier with one nap. Trust me!

E is still on two naps, but they are generally only an hour long, tops, each. I want him on one nap by July 1st (school gets out for H at the end of June, and I want a 1 nap schedule so we can actually do stuff and H isn't stuck inside all the time due to naps). I'm not looking forward to it - he is up by 6 AM and generally wants to nap at 8:30..... Eventually I need him on a schedule where he is up from his one nap by 2pm at the latest (for school pick up), so hopefully a schedule where he goes down around 11:30/12

You give me hope!  A more flexible schedule does sound really nice.  I see quite a few moms loving the one nap.  I know I have to bite the bullet sometime!

[bebeetmoi]

Oh my gosh YES! It is terrible:( She wakes for the day lately at 5:30am, so by 9am she is exhausted and miserable. I've been trying to push the morning nap back further little by little but it makes for a long morning. I've found that getting out of the house in the mornings after she's played and had her breakfast has helped. It not only passes time and allows her to get fresh air, but she is always better when we're out and she almost forgets she's exhausted.
On average those she's waking from her nap around 12pm ish, so getting to bedtime (7pm) is a challenge. I know everntually we will both get used to it and her nap will get longer than it is (only 1.5 hours currently) and she will hopefully sleep in a bit later, but it's a rocky road!

[ashleydl83]

Yes. Some days it's one nap, some days two, they are shorter and she is more irritable. I'll be happy when she finally transitions to 1 good nap.

[charmediamsure]

Jack dropped the second nap about a month ago now and we had the same problem exactly. I will tell you that holding off on morning naps or trying to encourage half a nap in the morning and the rest in the afternoon failed miserably. We either had an overtired baby that wouldn't nap at all, or one that napped from 2-5 in the afternoon and then couldn't sleep. No bueno.

I think he's just gotten used to one nap. We wakes at 6:00, naps around 11:30-1:45, bed routine starts at 6:45 so he's on the boob to fall asleep at 7 or shortly after. We have him pretty used to this because daycare does lunch at 11 and nap right after. Sometimes at home he will take a morning nap around 10 and sleep until 12 and he just gets lunch when he gets up.

So I guess I don't really have any answers but I do have reassurance that his body will eventually adjust to staying awake for longer stretches.

[rxbeth]

Madison seems to have no problem with one nap at daycare (11:30 or 12 to 2pm) but still sometimes needs a quick morning nap (and sometimes a nap in the car on the way home).

Weekends are another story. She'll want to nap at 10am and then try to nap for 2 hours.

[eav2c]

Dropping down to one nap was awful. I was really sad about it. Now I really love the one nap because going down at night has been easier and sleeping in general has been better - although we are still not STTN. He's been down since 6:30 and it's 10 now with one wake up already but that is significantly better than before.

I think at this point it's just getting adjusted to a new schedule, once things are more routine he will be happier - don't beat yourself up over it and let things happen as they feel right. I let Colin go down around 11 and he won't wake up till 2 sometimes and will eat lunch then. Could you squeeze in a little morning snack if you're worried about hunger? Once a routine is established I bet you will love the new schedule. I feel like we are able to do so much more now and his naps got progressively better - I hope Layne's do too!