To ask about my 13mo nap ASAP?

[ENFSGJIC]

Just posting for a quick response. I started trying my 13 mo on 1 nap yesterday, after she's been needing much longer awake windows and two naps was getting tricky, plus waking up earlier. Yesterday we tested it out as she was up teething in the night (normally sleeps through) and woke up unusually late at 8.30am. So I seized the opportunity and gave her one lunch nap which worked out fine. She went to bed at 7.45 and slept 12 hours.

Today I have kept her up but stupidly made the mistake of going for a walk in the buggy at 11.30. We don't have a garden and it was getting stuffy indoors. However, of course she fell asleep at 11.45! My fault.

Question is, what do I do now? If she wakes at 12.30? I cant let her nap after 3.30 or we will have a difficult night.

Lesson learned about taking her for a walk when she's tired!

Personally I would get her out of buggy and wake her up. Get home and then can do cot nap.

Thanks @becca3210 I am pretty certain if I did that she wouldn't go down in the cot. Knowing her I think so anyway...

I’d leave her, call that her one nap and then prepare yourself for a tricky afternoon and an early night.

It’s hard when they transition from two to one nap. It’s rarely straightforward.

@ENFSGJIC best to trust your instincts as you know her best. Hope the afternoon and evening goes ok! We transitioned to one nap recently at 14 months has been a good change

Leave her sleep as long as poss, if she wakes after 45 mins then rock the pram for up to 30 mins to try and get her back to sleep. Make sure the pram is in a dark quiet place with no stimulation.
Tell us what time she wakes.

Thanks everyone. She woke after 30mins at 12.15 - I suspected she would. We were outside and I was just walking the buggy.

I've now given her lunch. My plan is to try putting her down at 3 which would be 2.45 awake window so a bit short, and then see if she can sleep for a 30 min cat nap

Yes good plan. Fingers crossed!

If you put her down at 3 she will never sleep tonight.

If it’s t was me I’d put her down at 2 or 2:30 absolute latest and leave her until 3:30.

@ENFSGJIC

Just posting for a quick response. I started trying my 13 mo on 1 nap yesterday, after she's been needing much longer awake windows and two naps was getting tricky, plus waking up earlier. Yesterday we tested it out as she was up teething in the night (normally sleeps through) and woke up unusually late at 8.30am. So I seized the opportunity and gave her one lunch nap which worked out fine. She went to bed at 7.45 and slept 12 hours.

Today I have kept her up but stupidly made the mistake of going for a walk in the buggy at 11.30. We don't have a garden and it was getting stuffy indoors. However, of course she fell asleep at 11.45! My fault.

Question is, what do I do now? If she wakes at 12.30? I cant let her nap after 3.30 or we will have a difficult night.

Lesson learned about taking her for a walk when she's tired!

Just try and keep her up. My daughter has one nap but it varies in time. She has a second only if the first is a rubbish one I.e. 15min car journey. All kids are different but you should be ok keeping her up if she has napped now albeit early

@RestingPandaFace

If you put her down at 3 she will never sleep tonight.

If it’s t was me I’d put her down at 2 or 2:30 absolute latest and leave her until 3:30.

There's no way she would go down that early unfortunately. She needs at least 3 hours and usually 3.5 as an awake window.

We tried it and she slept at 3 which is good - the heat making her sleepy. Will just mean she probably wakes at 6.30am tomoro instead of 7.30.