DS turned 1 last week and we've seen changes in both day and night sleep and I can't work out if it's a bit of 12 month regression or whether he's edging closer to 1 nap.
Naps - used to self settle for naps and sleep until woken but recently needs gentle settling from us (light bum pats etc) to go to sleep, but then goes off quite quickly. It's now hit or miss whether he will do a 30-40 min nap and not connect to a new sleep cycle, or connect fine and I wake him after an hour as we are capping naps at 2x 1hr. Occasionally he will settle himself to sleep for naps, but then still hit or miss as to whether he will do short or longer nap
Night sleep - previously been a very good night sleeper and we had months of him sleeping through, but recently have night wakes sometimes, where he seems v upset, give calpol in case teething etc. and then can be hard to settle but goes back off. He's also waking earlier but not too much of a diff, used to be 6:30-7am now 6-6:30am. Nights are slowly getting a bit better, we've had two nights in a row of sleeping through after 1.5 weeks of disruption most nights.
He has been going through some hard separation anxiety and I think this has contributed to him wanting to be settled at naps. I can often resettle him after waking 30-40 mins in a nap but not always.
current schedule is:
morning rise 6:45
nap 1: 10-11ish
nap 2: 14:30-15:30 although sometimes doesn't seem tired enough for this and can therefore run later by the time he's asleep
bed: 19:00-19:15 (he's always ready for bed even if last wake window is slightly shorter than the second and self settles for night sleep no issue)
I do feel like the day is maxed out but am scared to try and move to 1 nap in case he's not ready as I know it can just create overtiredness (which he had the other week due to really bad naps and struggled to nap and was awake a lot in the night) also know the transition can be a messy one where not room for 2 naps but 1 isn't enough, so not sure how best to approach it.
any advice?