My daughter is 14 1/2 months old and is very alert, so finds it difficult to wind down. She had settled into a reasonable 2-nap routine for a good while, but for the last few months, these naps have been erratic, with some becoming short occasionally and the afternoon one becoming increasingly difficult to achieve, often not happening at all, as I tried for so long that it got too late in the day. The morning nap has gradually become later too.
This has progressed so that for the last 4 days, she has been refusing her morning nap completely (as soon as we go upstairs and draw the curtains, she cries, pushes away from me and I can't even get her into her sleeping bag). She just became hugely distressed, had maybe 30 mins sleep all day and then been overtired and virtually passed out at bedtime.
So today, I tried at the usual time of 9.30am, she refused, the same happened at 10am and 10.30am. But at 11.30am, she went to sleep with no fuss at all and slept for 1 1/2 hrs, grumpy and seeming still tired.
For an hour or so before the nap and before bedtime, she seemed irritable and hyperactive. Is it usually like this while they get used to the change or have I done the wrong thing and just need to find other ways to get her down for two naps?