Anyone's lo on to 1 nap?

jasrun80 · May 2013

I rarely post lately but in the few recent posts I have read about nap time I'm seeing words like "3rd" nap,,, which I can't say I even remember eliminating because I'm not positive it ever existed with my daughter ! She started off a rocked napper for a while but somehow, suddenly became an excellent 2 time a day, 2-3 hour napper. Recently I've pushed her to the limit and made her get through excruciating experiences (for me) like the dreaded zoo. I can't stand the zoo,... Anyway.. She happily sat through the experience & smiled the entire time, napped 20 minutes in the car then stayed up til her early bedtime of 6:30 that night.

Shes been screwing around a lot in her crib for an hour & a half, happily playing and babbling but has been skipping her afternoon nap. She's exhausted by 6:30 on those days, but happy as ever and eats & drinks well.

My question is, if you are transitioning to one nap, if there's anyone out there(!!!) then how do you do it?

My kid wakes around 6:30 or 7 am & I keep napping her at a normal morning time of 10ish to find that she won't nap in the afternoon but is quite tired by bedtime and resembles a puppy on Benadryl. How do you keep them up to kind of centralize a mid day nap?

MooOink · May 2013

Her one nap is 2 to 3 hours? That's awesome!

My LO wakes at 5:45am. Naps at 8 am for an hour, 12:00 for 45 min and 4:00 for 45 min. I would love one big long nap instead.

Anyway no help here

myluckypig · May 2013

The past few months he has been on one nap. He wakes around 7:30-8:00...then naps at 10 for 2-2.5 hours. He starts getting fussy around 4-5 and acts as if he needs another nap, but refuses to. He then goes to sleep around 7:30 for the night.

PaMommy02 · May 2013

LO is 10 months and just dropped to one nap about a week ago. He wakes around 7ish then goes down for nap around 11. He takes a nice almost 3 hour nap then. He's so ready for bed around 7.

He used to take a morning nap around 1030 then an afternoon nap around 2 that both lasted about and hour and half tops!

I like that he's taking one long nap now. The only downside is that if I don't put him down for the night around 7pm he's gets so fussy now when before he could make it until closer to 8pm. Good luck!

kderham · May 2013

My LO takes one long nap (2-3 hours sometimes longer if we have been out in the sun or at the pool). He wakes up at 6:30 EVERY morning. (I've stopped setting an alaram for work he is so precise!) He usually goes down between 10:30 and 11:30 for nap time. He is tired by 6:30 (when we start the bedtime routine) but he sleeps like a log! He is in day care and that routine helped a lot with the one nap but it took a few painful days of me just forcing him to stay awake through his 9 am nap to transition to the 1 nap a day (he used to nap at 9 and 2). I have also noticed that if I feed him snacks mid-afternoon, he is not as tired. I'm a believer in quick and painful (for me) as opposed to long and drawn out. I just had to stick it out and pour myself into bed/nap time as well. Good luck!

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