16 month old small wake windows 💤

Curious to know if anyone else has a 16 month old with fairly small wake windows for their age? I keep seeing or hearing about babies the same age either on one nap already or awake for 4/5 hours before their first nap. My lo can only really do 3-3.5 hours maximum before she is desperate to nap and she’s been like this for quite a while, loves her routine. Anyone else?

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My son can stay awake 4/5 hours but he gets super grumpy and naughty.
It doesn’t always go to plan depending on what we are doing for the day, but he wakes around 7.30-8am and naps about 11am for an hour. Then another nap around 3ish for half an hour to an hour.
But then other days he will nap 12 for a couple of hours.
We don’t really have set nap times, i just let my son guide me and it works for us 😊 x

Every toddler is different, just do what works for you both. My lo wakes at 0630, naps 1 nap at 1130/1200 for 1-1.5 hours. Then bed at 1930 and sleeps through. That's what works for him

Mine is strange, she goes 3-3.5 before her first nap but then often refuses her second nap completely and ends up being awake for 7 hrs 🙄 other days she still has 2 naps and 12 hrs overnight (with lots of wake ups).
I am trying to push that first wake window to try and get her on 1 nap because a 7 hr window it’s just not good for her, she gets so overtired and it’s so hard to settle her for bed then.

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