Is it time to transition to 1 nap?

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I am a FTM and my little girl is turning 1 in a week's time and I'm unsure if now is the time to try her on one nap a day.
It is slowly taking longer and longer to get her to go to sleep at 7:30 when we take her up to bed, me and DH have to sit in the rocking chair in her room and rock her until she goes to sleep, sometimes it can take a couple of hours of us taking it in turns trying to get her to go off. FYI we have tried putting her down in her cot when she's drowsy after rocking for 10/15 mins but she cries as soon as we walk out the room and gets more and more stressed until we go back in and soothe her.
I am just wondering if it's because she's getting too much day time sleep? She wakes up between 7/7:30am. First nap at 10/10:30 until 11/11:30. Second nap 2:30/3 until 4/4:30. Bedtime at 7:30/8.
Do we try keeping her awake in the morning and put her down for one afternoon nap around 1pm? The only thing I can think of is that she is too awake come bed time.
Suggestions welcome!

I'd do first nap at 10 for 30 mins then 2nd nap at 2ish for no more than 90 mins. She's prob a bit early to go down to 1 nap, although not impossible. She's napping too late in the day I'd say

Her total nap time isn’t excessive for her age but I think she’s waking up from second nap too late. I would cap at 3.30, perhaps even 3. This will mean her naps will have to shorten. I would do this gradually with the first nap as that is the one she will drop in a few months.

Thank you for the replies, it's very helpful.
I will try giving her a short 30 min nap in the morning and a longer one in the afternoon at about 2ish - hopefully this helps!

She deffo needs to be awake by 3-3.30pm before bedtime

Mine us 1 in 3 weeks. She's had just 1 nap the last two days, but both after around 13hr night time sleep. Nap was 2.5ish hours

She'll usually do something like
Wake 7.20
Nap 10-11
Nap 3-4.30
Sleep 7.30

But, sometimes the first nap is 10-12.30, second nap maybe 4.30-5, bed 8-7ish
At nursery 2 days a week, one day she woke 7ish, was asleep 10-12.30, then refused to sleep tho tired, and fell asleep in someone's arns 5.20pm lol had 25 mins and went to bed 7.20.

Deffo very varied. I wouldn't worry about the morning nap being 30mins. The second nap can always be a shorter nap. And if moving to 1 nap, no need to keep her up til 1pm. 12-2ish could work well, or even 11.30-1.30/2.

Thanks all, much appreciated.

Is she walking? If not once she is this will help to make her tired. I do think that she is napping late and going to bed late imo. Mine all went to bed about 6 to 6.30 at that age and would wake up earlier though at about 5.30 to 6. This worked better for me personally, especially as I was back to work PT by this age. I would definitely cut the afternoon nap down.

She isn't walking but she is standing all the time and walking along furniture/walls etc.
we cant put her to bed much earlier than 7:30 tbh as we don't have our dinner until 6:30 because her dad doesn't finish work until 5:30 and he'd never see her otherwise!

I have a 9 month old who naps less than 2hrs a day. Bedtime at 7pm.

At that age my DD needed to be awake from the last nap by 3pm for bed at 8pm otherwise we had the same issue. Not long after turning 1 she dropped the first nap. She’s always been low sleep needs though, always has dropped a nap earlier than the general advice is. She’s just turned 2 now and we’re sometimes having trouble getting her to settle at bedtime if she has too long a nap so we’re probably starting to enter another transition. Got to love the “nap maths” as I’ve heard it called!

7.30pm isn't a late bedtime at all. My first used to have tea at 7pm, when dad got home and bedtime was around 8 30pm. When she was about 14months ish until she started wanting tea earlier, at 2yrs old tea is now 6pm.

Baby has had tea at 6pm from day 1, and bedtime usually 7.15-7.45pm. I think 6/6.30 is a super early bedtime, I'd hate her waking at 6am! 7-7.30am is a perfect wake time for us (tho toddler is usually 8.30pm until 6.30am atm, the early risings are a killer!)

Cut the morning nap to 30 min and see how she goes. No way could you expect a 1 year old to wake at 4:30 and then go to sleep again 3 hours later!

If 30 min in the morning is too much, reduce to 20 min, then 10 min. When the 10 min power nap is impacting the day, that's when I would cut it out completely.

Wake from lunchtime nap at 2:30 - definitely no later than 3 if you want bedtime to be half 7

Thanks everyone, really appreciating all the advice and suggestions.
She is currently down for her morning nap and we will be waking her at 10:30 (30 mins). We will put her down for her second nap about 2pm and wake her at 3pm and see how we get on at bed time tonight.
I think once you get into a routine it changes again so quickly, her "wake windows" are probably increasing now and I just haven't realised. Yay to parenting! 😂

Everyone is different on their preference. We are up at 6am every weekday due to work and now school. Now they are older we do sometimes lay in at the weekend. I have always personally preferred an early bedtime for the kids and early start, but as I said we all do what is best for our family. Mine all needed to go to bed early as they were tired and ready for sleep.

Bedtime has been a lot easier for us tonight, it took 30 mins altogether. Thank you everyone!