If LO is down to one nap... schedule?

VeilSdeGTO

DD has been taking 1 nap for a few weeks now. The naps have been getting a little longer, which is great. However, we were giving her lunch after her naps (used to be 11-12) but now she is napping roughly 12-2pm (sometimes 2:30).

If LO is down to one nap, what time is their nap and do you do lunch before or after nap?

stardust317

During the week, DD naps at daycare. They serve lunch at 10:30 and then nap from 11:00ish to 1:00ish. They have snack at 2:00. About twice a week, DD will come home and nap from 5:00ish to 5:45ish.

kagl08

7am: wake up

9:30am: breakfast

12:30-2:30 (although some days like today he naps later until 3:30): nap

Directly after nap he has lunch.

6:30: dinner

8pm: bed

STTN about 25-50% of the time.

We tried lunch before nap and I just couldn't make it work. This works well for us.  

 

kujayhawkgirl

Wake 6:30/7am -- formula/milk

7:30/8am -- breakfast

9:30/10am -- snack

noon -- lunch

12:30-2/3 -- nap

3/3:30pm -- snack

5/5:30pm -- dinner

7pm -- bed

CMonkey515

DS just switched to one long nap. He wont eat lunch before nap because its too early, so we have it after. Our day is:

8 am wake up, 6 oz of milk

9 am breakfast

11 am 6 oz milk, nap

2 pm wake from nap and have lunch

4 pm 6 oz milk, sometimes a small snack

6:30 dinner

8:30 6oz milk and then bed  

LCass

Lily's nap time varies.  Most days it starts between 11 and 11:30, so she has lunch when she wakes up.  But we're slowly working on pushing it later and later.  My goal is to get it to 1pm so she can have lunch first.  On the odd day that she does stay up until 12 or 12:30 she gets lunch before her nap.

blu-eyedwife

At daycare he eats lunch at11:30 and naps from 12:30-2:30 (or today 12:30 to 2:45).

At home on the weekends we eat lunch at 12, and then he goes down shortly after, either 12:30 or 1.

amyc216

It kind of depends on when he wakes up in the morning and how he's acting on whether I put him down before or after lunch.  He usually naps for 2.5-3 hours.  Sometimes he will nap from like 11-2 and then I'll do lunch or he'll eat and then nap from like 12-3 (that's what I like better).

Rolamarie

We are usually either one of these two depending on how big of a breakfast I'm making and how long it takes to cook

 8:30 wake up

9:00 smaller breakfast

11:30 lunch

11:45-3:30 nap

 

OR

8:30 wake up, immediate snack (fruit, etc)

10:30 bigger breakfast

11:30 snack and lg cup milk

11:45-3:30 nap 

 

patchen30

I've been putting LO down ~5 1/2 hours from wake up time, so if it's closer to noon or 12:30 I'll do lunch before, if it's closer to 11:30 I'll do lunch afterwards.  It's kind of tricky.