The switch from 2 naps to 1- how did you do it?

mavs_girl07

Did you go cold turkey?  Did you just slowly start moving the morning nap back?  I need help with this.  DD is completely refusing her second nap.  I'm worried if we just go cold turkey she'll end up getting overtired and her night sleep will be affected.  But so far cold turkey has been our (actually her) strategy- she takes a good morning nap and then absolutely won't go down for the second.  This leaves a HUGE gap of 7-8hrs until bedtime, so I've been slowly increasing her awake time to get her nap more towards the middle of the day (around 11:30/12:00).  Not sure if this is the right way to go though.  Any tips?

Smores730

we slowly moved the morning nap back too (from then 10am to now 12:30) It was a very slow process for us and we had many days where we reverted back to giving her a 2nd nap because she was just so cranky. I don't have any tips other then I just kept trying to keep her awake until when I wanted her to nap and eventually she was on the new schedule.

AmyGer

I haven't tried it yet.  But an experienced friend told me the same as pp--to gradually move it later.