Nap transition

What time is your LOs naps and how long do they nap?

My 16 month old is in the transition from 2 to 1 nap and it's tricky as I have to pick up my first daughter from nursery at 12pm and it's often that I have to wake up LO at 12 to get ready. At the moment she naps from 10am to 12pm but then she won't have a 2nd nap anymore.
If i didnt have to wake her she would probably sleep 2.5-3 hours which would be a good lunch time nap but not sure if she should be awake all afternoon without nap and how early should I put her to bed then... I'm out if ideas! 😅

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My LO is on one nap now most days. He wakes at 7am has a nap around 1130-130 then bed anywhere between 7-8. It’s very rare he has 2 naps unless he falls asleep in the car on the way to the childminder (30 minute drive)
Do you have to drive to pick up your daughter? If not, I’d probably be inclined to let her nap in her pram x

We are mainly on one nap but the time changes every day. Yesterday she got up at 9, we went for a walk, had lunch and got back about 1. I then put her down for her nap about 1:50 and slept till about half 3 and went to bed gone 8pm last night. Today she got up about 8am and has already had her nap which was 12-1pm so i know shell be a ratty mess around 4/5 but no way ill let her nap now. Hopefully be an early bedtime. So all depends when your little one is waking up, could you maybe hold off the nap till after lunch/picking daughter up from nursery? X

Our son transitioned to 1 nap at 13 months. His routine is

Wake 7am
Awake 4h
Nap 11am till 1/1.30pm
Awake 5h30m
Bedtime 6.30/7pm

We use wake windows rather than fixed times.

Ours has had one nap for several months now (she dropped the 2nd very early) and her schedule is roughly as follows

Wake at 7:30
Nap at 12ish for 1-2h (sometimes she'll go down around 11, sometimes not until 2pm)
Bedtime 8-8:30, sometimes later depending on when and for how long she naps.

My son transitioned to 1 nap about 13 months as well. He’s up at 7.30-8 ish, nap at 11.30-2 or so, then back to bed at 7.30. Good as gold for naps (for which we know we’re really lucky!)

We recently changed from 2 naps to one, he was going down at 9.30 & 2.30 but we changed the following:
Wake 6.30
Nap 12/12.30 anywhere from 1.5-2.5hrs
Bed 6/6.30 depending on the legth or nap.
I was surprised how well he handled the long wake window between waking up and his lunchtime nap. I find we have to keep busy with an activity and snacks in the morning to get him through to 12ish. But if he needs to go down at 11.30 I’ll get him down early

When she transitioned she napped from 11-1pm but i sometimes put her down after 12 and she naps until after 2pm and bed at 7pm. Lunch is before midday nap. She also wakes up between 7 and 8 am

@Imogen it's only a 5 min walk but if she would fall asleep in the buggy, I couldn't leave her there as we live in a 2nd floor flat. She always wakes up when I take her out the buggy so she would get a max half hour nap then 🤔

@Izzie ours is similar at the moment, first nap is between 9:30 and 10 as she often wakes up at 6am. She still struggles to make it later than 10am for her nap but then if she does sleep for 2 hours, she doesn't want a 2nd nap later anymore

My LB is on one nap now. He’ll wake between 7/8am then nap at about 11.30/12 for about 2/3 hours and then he goes to bed at around 8pm

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