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my daughter just turned two on the 9th, and always only took one nap. We put her to bed at about 7:30-8pm, and she sleeps until about 8-8:30 the nest morning. She used to go down for a three hour nap right after lunch at about 12:30, but just about a month ago that started not working anymore. Now I feed her lunch at the same time, but let her stay up until between 2-3pm, then she naps until 4-4:30pm. This is working very well for us. A girlfriend of mine is the one who suggested pushing her nap back, otherwise she would refuse a nap all together, and I am just not ready for that. I am about 18 weeks pregnant and need a break during the day. It sounds like your son is transitioning to one nap, I guess you just need to figure out what time works best for the resst of the day. I know what it is like to have an over tired kid that won't nap... it sucks!

ya it sucks! and having a hard time figuring out what will work best is HARD!!! I have tried last week to push his nap to at least 12 and it was fine i guess but he still only slept 1hr 15 min. Then i though maybe he was overtired and we need to go back to a 11am nap but still only 1hr 15 min!??? at night he will only sleep 11hrs max and i know they say they should get a average of 13 hrs a day in sleep, so then he is short changed. He was always on ball with his average amount before this switch over. He used to do a average of 13.5hr - 14. with 2.5 - 3hrs of naps a day and exactually the rest in pm sleep, unless he was put to bed too late and he got over tired then he lost a hour and woke up at 6 am.
Tonight he was in bed around 7:10, so he should of been sleeping by 7:30. if he was correct with his hours today he should sleep till 7am at least. but then that's over his normal 11hrs at night, so we will see i guess.

I have 16 month old twins. They go to bed between 7:30 and 8:00 every night. They wake up around 7:00. They have one nap a day, usually for a duration of 2 hours and between 12:30 and 2:00 is when that nap starts. They went right from 3 naps to one nap 2 when they were about 13 months old. The twins were born almost 2 months early so if you want to account for the corrected age then you can but they are all caught up with other 16 month olds. If I were you I would keep him awake past the 1st nap time and then put him down sometime between the usual 1st and 2nd nap time. He should sleep longer than usual when he switched to 1 nap. Then after he wakes up, keep him awake until bedtime. If he seems tired and you want to keep him up do something fun and energizing... like bath time with some new toys

my dd is 17 months old and has been sleeping from 7pm till about 8am, SOMETIMES 7am...and she takes a 1.5-2 hour nap from 12-1:30 or 2pm. She's been on one nap for several months now too....can't remember when it started that way, but she's pretty consistent. If I wait too long to give her a nap she won't sleep long.

My lo is 15 months and it was a hard transition for him too. It happened right after Christmas. His rountine got messed up because of the holidays and he only took one nap. After that he refused his morning nap (which was at 10:30) but after all his whinning and acting out....I put him in his bed and let him CIO. I couldn't take it and if he was going to cry anyway...he might as well do it in his bed. After about 3 days when if I tried to put him down at 1030 he would sit in his bed a talk and play. But if I waited until noon, he would go to sleep. But for about a week or two he would be very crappy until noon. But eventually he got use to it and now he only takes one nap a day. His bedtime is 7-7:30pm and he wakes up at around7-8am. Eats breakfast at 8, snack at 10:30-11 then nap time at 12-230 or 3. Second big meal of day (lunch) at 3, then snack at 430-5. Then Dinner at 630-7. In bed by 7-30. This seems to work very well with us. Hope that helps.