struggling with 2-1 nap transition

[alexturban]

Hello everyone,

couple of weeks ago my 15 and half months daughter started fighting her morning nap, waking up earlier in the morning and falling asleep later and later at night. I thought she was ready for her nap transition and for the past week she is having 1 nap, around 12 ish. Before I started this transition, she used to have a very good routine:
6/7am wake up
8am breakfast
10am nap for 1.5h
12 lunch
3pm nap 1.5h
4pm snak
6pm dinner
7pm bath
7:30pm/8bed
But since she only has 1 nap she's really tired and struggles to sleep properly. She will wake up in the morning super early (sometimes before 5am), cries often at night and struggles to sleep more than 1.5h at nap time (today barely more than 1h). I moved her bedtime to 7pm but didn't seem to help. She is so tired and grumpy, everything is a struggle.
Did I miss read the sign, was she really ready for 1nap?
Should I go back to 2 naps per day? Or is this normal and she will eventually get used to her new routine?
Her new routine goes like this:
5/6:30am wake up
8am breakfast
10am snack
11:30am lunch
12pm nap (for as long as she can)
4pm snack
5:30pm diner
6:30pm bath
7pm bed (fall asleep straightway)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I think you just have to ride it out OP with early bedtimes to compensate for the lost sleep and she’ll get used to it soon and start napping for at least 2 hours. Transitions suck

Perhaps if she’s getting up at 5 then a nap at 12 is too late and she’s too overtired by then. I’d maybe try an earlier nap (I remember having to be creative with lunch around this stage as DS wouldn’t eat properly anyway if too tired so I did more like 2 bigger snacks to make up for it) so 11ish nap and then early bed at 6ish?

Other option is potentially to force a later short nap in the car or pram?

When we dropped the second nap I put Dd down at about 11am till 12:30/1 then did lunch, afternoon activity, dinner and then bedtime routine starts at 5:30 with her in bed for 6-6:15. The earlier nights are LOVELY and she sleeps through till 6/7 depending on how tired she is.

Try earlier morning nap, and earlier bedtime so the crankiness doesn’t have a chance to start.

If she was doing 1.5 hours you could try giving morning nap but waking after 30 mins on days she's struggling to stretch.

I found with my DS that some days he would want 1 nap and others he'd want 2 - I very much went with his needs (which was a pain in the backside for planning days!) for a few weeks.

It was a bit frustrating for a while but he soon settled into 1 nap at around midday for a couple of hours.

Best of luck, it will get better!

All mine dropped the afternoon nap first. So keep the 10am nap and bring bedtime forward. HTH.

Thank you all for your suggestions! Sorry i didn’t reply earlier but I wanted to try few of your ideas and see how we were going. DD is now on 1 nap a day (most days) and is much better now. Thank you all for your help!