15mo DS is, on the whole, and touch wood as I write this, brilliant at napping in the day. We have lunch, then nappy change, then start talking about being tired and how nice a sleep would be right now, then we go into his room, he turns the light down, gets into sleeping bag (which has recently turned into a slight wrestling match but nothing too bad), he lies down wide awake and I tell him to have a lovely sleep, turn light all the way off and walk out the door. Occasionally a little complaint, but 9/10 times he'll go off to sleep for 2 hours.
But bedtime is completely different as he really relies on being nursed (BF) to sleep. He'll go to bed fine if he's about one millisecond away from unconsciousness, but if you dare try to put him in there, say, TWO milliseconds from unconsciousness then he's having none of it.
Any advice or suggestions about what to do to try to change the order of proceedings? I guess I'd like to get him to have BF before reading his book (before bath does not work). But trying to rouse him to then read a book, or even breaking it up to BF/book/BF upsets him.