Early wakes and a one nap day

[crazymuseummumtobe]

At what age did your early waking toddler successfully move to a one nap day?

My 15m DS usually wakes up between 5 and 5.20. Very occasionally he sleeps til 6, and can then manage a one nap day, with lunch around 11.15 then straight to bed.

However, with the early wakes, he's now usually napping for 30 mins sometime between 9.15 and 10.00, and then for an hour or so about 2pm. Lots of his little mates have been on one nap for months now!

How long until the nap gap is such that he can make it from 5am to midday?! Or is a successful one nap day not gonna happen until he (fingers crossed) starts to sleep a bit later?

Thanks.

Bump - help please!

DS was later than his mates to get to one nap because of this. In the end I just accepted a couple of weeks of crappy day times and only allowed him one nap a day. I kept him awake till about 9.30 and then get gradually pushed it back every few days and he had a slightly earlier bedtime which also got pushed back. He settled on a 11-1 nap eventually which then crept back as he went from a 2 hour nap to a 1hour nap.

Now 3yo he probably has a nap once a week but till gets up at 6am daily. I think he might be faulty

I think DD was around 13-14 months when she dropped to one nap, but nursery did it somehow because I was still keen to put her down for her two naps a day and I noticed if she went down for one in the morning she just couldn't go back to sleep in the afternoon. But she sleeps for two plus hours at home (only one plus hours at nursery).
She wakes up around six - we have an agreement not to get up before that and a visual cue when it is six am but she also co sleeps so much easier to manage.
She now successfully manages her one nap day but the nap is between 11-12 at home (and after 12 at nursery - it's much more exciting there!)

I can't really help answer your specific question, but I have had issues with an early riser with both my kids. For my DS (now 20 months), to help break the early morning cycle we made sure his room was blacked out and nothing was waking him. When he woke I left him in his cot as long as possible, then when I got him up I really got him up. Clothes on, curtains open, downstairs. Whereas before he would come into my bed and lay quietly or watch YouTube until he was ready to properly wake up. It only took 3 mornings and he decided it wasn't worth waking up for.

At 15 months, I think your DC probably needs the 1.5 hours of naps if they're waking at 5am but maybe you could try shortening the morning one to a 15 minute cat nap?

We moved to one nap at 15 months and it did help delay the early mornings. For a few weeks you might need to do early lunch and nap until they settle into it and try to avoid the cat naps as they will interfere with the routine. My dd would sleep for 2 hrs 12-2 then 7-7 she's 21 months now and does about 1.5 hrs and 7:30-7

Mine shifted to one nap around your son's age. However I think early mornings can just be a permanent fixture. DD is 4.5 and up around 5 or 5.30 every morning, always has done. We tried all kinds of things to change it.

Apparently secondary age is when they reliably sleep in later