Two to one nap transition

[Porky28]

15 month old baby, was on 2 x one hour naps (0930 and 1400). Nursery advised she seemed ready to move to one nap as she was fighting the afternoon nap and taking a while to go for first nap. So for a week, she's having one nap somewhere between 12-2pm. Usually 90 minutes to 2 hours long.

Since around 10months old, she has slept through 7:30pm-6:30 pretty much with no intervention (fell asleep independently. She'd squawk now and again but resettle quickly). We loved this and felt very fortunate that ee had some respite.

However, since moving to one nap, her night sleep has gone to pot. She takes ages to go to sleep at 7pm and wakes frequently during the night, often screaming. We're now resorting to giving her a dummy when she wakes as this settles her, but we would ideally like to refrain from dummy use as we had successfully weaned her and we don't want her to get attached to it into toddler hood. She doesn't want to be cuddled either. We've kept the bedtime routine the same (bath, pjs, stories) although she seems more resistant/distracted by bath, cuddles and stories now.

Has anyone experienced similar and can shed some advice please?

Sounds like she's over tired and wired by the time bedtime comes round. If her 2 nap schedule wasn't disturbing her night sleep I'd go back to that as she likely isn't ready to drop one.

If you feel she needs to keep the 1 nap thing I'd allow 2 naps every few days to catch up / prevent over tiredness and also move bedtime an hour earlier until she gets used to it.

I found that for a few weeks, my toddler was on a 1 nap schedule at nursery but 2 at home

It was like at the beginning of the week they were full of energy and 1 nap was fine, but then by the end of the week, it wasn't enough and they needed 2

I found the transition from two naps to one (at around the same age) tricky. I think as soon as she settles into the new pattern things will improve.

@Needasensecheck@Conchiglie@MaJoadythank you. We can try 2 naps this weekend to help her catch up. I did try an earlier bedtime but she just babbled/whinged for like half an hour so ended up going to sleep around the same time. But I'll try push bedtime forward again and see if that helps. I did hope that with time, she'll get used to the new pattern and get more restful sleep 🤞🏼the heat may have also put things out of kilter

Probably the heat won't help things, my 3 year old cried a bunch of times in the night and ended up in our bed two nights running. Hope things improve for you.