2-1 nap transition
Has anyone dropped to one nap yet? My boy is telling me all the signs he’s ready but I’m struggling with how to navigate it?
He’s currently waking around 5/6am and taking ages to go down for both his usual naps. Previously 09:30-10:30 and 2-3:30 but have been maxing wake windows and capping naps to protect bedtime going ridiculously late.
Today has been an utter car crash, awake at 06:00am- wouldn’t go back down even though tired. Didn’t nap until 10:05, capped at half an hour to protect the rest of the day. Then didn’t fall asleep until 2:40 and woke up crying at 3:20 still shattered asif he’s over tired? But recently if I’ve let him have an hour in the morning he refuses the second nap completely! I feel we were in such a good place with sleep and now I have 0 clue what to do for the best.
Those that have, how have you gone about this with your fomo babies that have low sleep needs?
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I have found the best way to protect his sleep is to just let him sleep when he wants, for as long as he wants. This might not be the best advice for most people but it’s what works for me. He is still on 2 naps a day, a morning and afternoon nap and they could be anywhere from 45 mins to 2.5 hours. I just let him sleep. I haven’t found this affected night times at all.
I’ve heard it’s not ideal to drop them down to one up until they’re between 14 to 18 months.. sometimes if my little one fights his afternoon nap then I’ll put him in the pram and he does go off. I know he still gets tired and needs his two naps still.. maybe he’s just going through a phase 🤷🏼♀️ x
My baby's naps were so routine a week ago and this week has been a car crash, one day her wake window was 7 hours, one was 5 hours, some days 2.5 hours! She used to sleep 1.5-2 hours and now 15-20 mins! Driving me bonkers. But I don't think she's ready for 1 nap yet as her naps aren't long enough and still needing a rescue nap in the afternoon otherwise she'd go to bed at 4pm lol and then wake up at 2-3am
So we have one nap. Have for a few weeks now. Either 9-1130 or 130-330. Both ways she ends up sleeping 630-730 overnight.
We’ve always let the kids lead the way. Some days we are out doing things so a morning nap doesn’t work. So we sleep in the afternoon and she takes maybe 5-10 more minutes to get to sleep at night.
I have to cap his first nap to 45 minutes for him to then take a two hour nap in the afternoon. Otherwise he'll sleep too long in the morning and not want his second nap.
He Def still needs two naps for the wake windows not to be too long. Though some days he is just having too much fun and will only have one!
Yeah my little one is between 1 and 2 naps, if she has a morning nap before 11 she'll usually go all the way until 4-5ish for a second nap, she fights sleep all the time. On one nap days its usually early afternoon for between 1 and 2 hrs then she'll resist the second nap so I'll just try get her to bed a bit earlier that day. She usually just has one nap with the child minder and refuses the second, often grumpy in the evenings if she's only had a short nap earlier in the day.
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