Stupid question about late toddler naps

[Deleted]

I think it's pretty normal/common.

I remember a phase where DD would take a morning nap from like 10-12 then nap again from like 3-5 and be back in bed by 645 sharp for the night. She eventually sort of out grow the morning nap so her afternoon nap started at 12:30-1ish and she'd sleep until 4, be in bed by 8ish.

DS sort of does it now. He's up from his nap at 430, sometimes after 5 and back in bed by 730 most nights.

[turtlegirl]

I think it's pretty common. When both boys dropped to one nap it took about a month ke 6 weeks for that afternoon nap to lengthen past an hour.

[jr009j]

We had some luck extending the second nap by limiting the first nap to 1.5 hours maximum.

[jr009j]

Aug 5, 2015 17:00:56 GMT -5 @barefootbarista said:

Aug 5, 2015 16:58:22 GMT -5 jr009j said:

We had some luck extending the second nap by limiting the first nap to 1.5 hours maximum.

Yeah, but she is almost 17 months old, I'm trying to extend her one, mid-day nap. She was a champion napper when she took 2, but she is having difficulty dropping to one-she just doesn't sleep long enough to make it to bedtime

Oh I misunderstood.

Weissbluth would probably recommend putting her down for bedtime early for awhile until she catches up on sleep. But with my oldest, that resulted in a permanent early bedtime, even once she caught up.

[bcarp30]

Aug 5, 2015 17:00:56 GMT -5 @barefootbarista said:

Aug 5, 2015 16:58:22 GMT -5 jr009j said:

We had some luck extending the second nap by limiting the first nap to 1.5 hours maximum.

Yeah, but she is almost 17 months old, I'm trying to extend her one, mid-day nap. She was a champion napper when she took 2, but she is having difficulty dropping to one-she just doesn't sleep long enough to make it to bedtime

When DD dropped to one nap we slowly pushed it back by 30 min every couple of days until it was at a good time. It was hard for a few days for sure but eventually it worked well I think it took about a week. We started putting her down at 11:30 and moved it until she could go until 1:00.

[pugz]

Yup DD often naps from 3-5

[hermione]

I feel like that was the point when bedtime became 6:30. So ridiculous and inconvenient but it only lasted a few weeks or so.

[bananapancakes]

Aug 5, 2015 19:44:36 GMT -5 hermione said:

I feel like that was the point when bedtime became 6:30. So ridiculous and inconvenient but it only lasted a few weeks or so.

We are here. We've been transitioning for over a month now. He used to nap at 9 and 2 and go down for the night around 7:30. We've been slowly pushing the first nap back and now he naps just once at 11:30 and then goes down for the night around 6:30. I'm hoping to get that nap to around 12:30 and a 7:30 bed time again.

[loskadoodle]

We forced ds1 to 1 nap at 18m but sometimes before that he would take his normal morning nap but never fall asleep in the afternoon and be miserable. Actually ds2 did it today and was asleep before 7.