11mo DS started nursery a couple weeks ago, 8-6 Mon-Fri. At home, he usually had 2 naps a day and 3-4 hour wake times. But at nursery, most of the children are a bit older than him and only nap once, after lunch, so that's the pattern he's falling into there.
The problem is I'm not quite sure what to do when I pick him up. It's only a 5 minute walk to the nursery (which generally is super!), but it also means he can't naturally get a cat nap on the way home. So far, I've gone for a bit of a walk with him in the sling on the way home just so he gets a nap. It does feel a bit silly, though. We end up walking 6-6:30, then he wakes up for a snack and maybe 15 minutes of play time, before we start his bedtime routine at 7 and have lights out around 7:30.
I suppose it makes sense to work toward coming straight home, giving him a snack, and then starting his bedtime routine. So far at nursery, he usually wakes from his post-lunch nap around 1-1:30, so he's pretty tired when I pick him up at 6.
I worry that he will wake too early in the morning, though. Ideally, he would sleep until 7am, but so far doesn't seem too interested in sleeping more than 11 hours overnight. But maybe that would change with only the one day nap and no cat nap after nursery. Plus, I think it might start helping that it doesn't get light so early in the morning anymore.
Sorry for the essay 
Any advice? Around this age, did your LO cat nap on the way home from nursery and have a later bedtime, or did they go straight to bed when they got home? (Or did they just nap better at nursery than DS? 
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