Napping question

[dontstopbelievin]

Hi D13, we decided to transition mini Dsb from 2 naps to one nap with the time change. She normally sleeps 7-6, then takes a morning nap around 10 and an afternoon nap around three. Generally the naps are about an hour long, but the past couple of weeks she's been refusing either the morning or afternoon nap.

So since the time changed, we put her down at 8, she woke up at 7. Put her down for her nap at 1:30, but I think this was too late, she was pretty cranky. It's now 4pm and she's still sleeping. Should I wake her? What does your napping/sleeping scheduele look like? With a middle of the day nap, do you do lunch before or after?

Thanks!

[mama2a]

Ugh yeah, we're pretty much in an identical situation. Sleeps 7p-6:30a, naps from 10-11:30 and 3-4:30p. Since January (about 13 months old) she's started to refuse the afternoon nap at home on the weekends (at daycare she naps once a day). We've tried to manipulate it a little to merge the two together, but she's so crabby in the morning and we wind up putting her down, but then she's up by noon and won't sleep again until bedtime and thus really crabby in the late afternoon. My goal would be for her to nap from 1-3p because that is the daycare schedule in the toddler room. I know it'll all work itself out, but it's hard right now because I don't like taking her anywhere in the afternoons on the weekends because she could have a meltdown.

[mrsp]

We are also down to one nap a day and it was by far the hardest thing to transition to. DD will go down for her one nap after lunch 12:15-12:30 pm and will generally sleep for a couple of hours. I do remember though when daycare was transitioning her that she'd take really short naps at first until she finally got used to the one nap. And sometimes when I'd pick her up at 5 pm, she was ready for another nap by the time we got home. She'd nap for about 30 min in the evening and go to bed a little later than normal.

If mini Dsb sleeps again till 4 pm, I wouldn't wake her. She'll eventually get used to the new nap schedule. It took us about a month though so it won't happen right away.

[anakah]

LO naps from 12ish to 2-2:30 at daycare and then on the way home around 5 but that's only about 20-30 minutes. On the weekends he winds up cat napping here and there since we're usually on the go. I would wake her at 4 if she's still sleeping though so it doesn't interfere with bedtime.

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Mar 10, 2015 11:02:57 GMT -5 anakah said:

LO naps from 12ish to 2-2:30 at daycare and then on the way home around 5 but that's only about 20-30 minutes. On the weekends he winds up cat napping here and there since we're usually on the go. I would wake her at 4 if she's still sleeping though so it doesn't interfere with bedtime.

This is us, except the sleeping on the way home is only once in a while. Carter has been taking only 1 nap a day since before he was 1 - at least when he was home with me. He just always refused the 2nd nap towards the end of his first year. 

If the day ever gets thrown off, or he sleeps late that morning or something, I try not to let him sleep past 4 unless he's sick or just really seems to need it. If so, I try to keep it at cat nap length so it doesn't interfere with his 8pm bed time. He's usually starting to get cranky in the 7:00pm hour, but nothing so bad where he is just intolerable.

[EatsRitz]

Mar 10, 2015 11:02:57 GMT -5 anakah said:

LO naps from 12ish to 2-2:30 at daycare and then on the way home around 5 but that's only about 20-30 minutes. On the weekends he winds up cat napping here and there since we're usually on the go. I would wake her at 4 if she's still sleeping though so it doesn't interfere with bedtime.

Ditto this.

[cbowl]

I hate this transition!! We do lunch before at 11:45 / 12 and then she goes down for a nap around 12:30. She normally sleeps about 2 hours....but she is so grumpy when she wakes up. Clearly she needs to sleep longer. So we're working on it. But she goes down at night REALLY early bc of this - around 6pm or so.

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12:30-2 ish at daycare, and whenever during the weekend, usually we try for crib but sometimes we don't make it to crib

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Mar 10, 2015 11:27:47 GMT -5 EatsRitz said:

Mar 10, 2015 11:02:57 GMT -5 anakah said:

LO naps from 12ish to 2-2:30 at daycare and then on the way home around 5 but that's only about 20-30 minutes. On the weekends he winds up cat napping here and there since we're usually on the go. I would wake her at 4 if she's still sleeping though so it doesn't interfere with bedtime.

Ditto this.

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