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Post by jewel on Jun 5, 2017 14:59:40 GMT -6
Is anyone else in this fresh hell?
None of the other nap transitions were any issue at all.
LO will absolutely not take 2 naps anymore, even if the first one is only like 30 minutes, she still won't go down for a second one. But she still seems to want to take her nap at 9 AM. We fight to make it as late as possible each day, right now it's a struggle to get to 11. Once she is down it's fine, she has been sleeping for 2-2.5 hours and is more cranky in the PM but can make it at least close to bed time (7). She STTN 7-7 (yay! Finally got there around 13 months)
We are trying to find morning activities but it's just tough all around, finding stuff and doing it. Hopefully it gets better and ideally she could go down a bit later but even if she doesn't I guess that's fine bc she makes it until at least 630, with some crankiness but not awful (or it seems easier bc H is home maybe?)
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Post by LED on Jun 5, 2017 16:39:38 GMT -6
I'm sort of there. She'll still take two naps if none of the other kids are around for her to play with, but that's rare. She also will only take short naps, even on days she only gets one. She gets fussy around 5/6, but then improves for a bit before going to bed around 9.
I don't have any advice, though. Sorry.
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Post by sluttybigb00bz on Jun 5, 2017 17:11:45 GMT -6
Yes, this was our easiest transition I think.
D was refusing second nap about 75% of the time and E was refusing it occasionally. Which means even now, 5 weeks later she's still coming over to me at her former nap time looking for some cuddles.
If you can't get out of the house, try a new "station". When it was about nap time I'd offer a snack, take them outside or to a part of the house they don't go to. If you do TV, that might be a time to turn it on for a few minutes. A play date helps too.
The evening crankiness sort of went away with us - she might need a more solid afternoon snack than you usually offer?
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Post by chatterbox on Jun 5, 2017 18:42:51 GMT -6
We're in the transition right now. I'm just trying to put him down when he seems tired instead of our normal schedule. Otherwise he just cries in the crib and never falls asleep. I've resorted to car naps a couple times too.
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Post by expatmama11 on Jun 5, 2017 20:58:47 GMT -6
Sounds exactly what we struggled with around 13 months when we dropped a nap. It's rough the first month or so but did eventually get better. I did what others have said and tried to keep him busy. Play outside, eat lunch/snacks, etc
My biggest suggestion is to be careful about being in the car around the sleepiest time. My LO would always try to fall asleep in the car and if even goes for 2 minutes he is done napping for the day. It's awful!
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Post by lazyReader on Jun 5, 2017 21:48:51 GMT -6
I think I did this on accident. 🤷♀️
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Post by jewel on Jun 6, 2017 5:54:23 GMT -6
Sounds exactly what we struggled with around 13 months when we dropped a nap. It's rough the first month or so but did eventually get better. I did what others have said and tried to keep him busy. Play outside, eat lunch/snacks, etc My biggest suggestion is to be careful about being in the car around the sleepiest time. My LO would always try to fall asleep in the car and if even goes for 2 minutes he is done napping for the day. It's awful! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk This is not an issue for us, LO won't sleep in the car. |
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Post by jillywilly on Jun 6, 2017 6:21:04 GMT -6
We went through this also during the 2-1 transition - DS would want to nap during his morning nap time, but then wanted to be up all afternoon. I think for us day care helped, he transitioned to the toddler room around that time, where they have a stricter nap time of 12-3. On days where he was home with us, or with one of our moms, we just tried to push him back in 15 minute increments. So we'd not let him sleep before 10, then 10:15 a few days later, then 10:30, and so on. In a few weeks, we got him to day care's schedule, which he's still on almost a year later - he naps from about 12/1 until about 2/3, which is pretty close to right in the middle of the day for him.
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Post by expatmama11 on Jun 6, 2017 8:23:30 GMT -6
Sounds exactly what we struggled with around 13 months when we dropped a nap. It's rough the first month or so but did eventually get better. I did what others have said and tried to keep him busy. Play outside, eat lunch/snacks, etc My biggest suggestion is to be careful about being in the car around the sleepiest time. My LO would always try to fall asleep in the car and if even goes for 2 minutes he is done napping for the day. It's awful! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk This is not an issue for us, LO won't sleep in the car. Lucky you! Mine will, but no more than 20-30 minutes and then it's all over. I am that crazy mom doing everything in the car to keep him awake. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by jewel on Jun 6, 2017 9:34:40 GMT -6
This is not an issue for us, LO won't sleep in the car. Lucky you! Mine will, but no more than 20-30 minutes and then it's all over. I am that crazy mom doing everything in the car to keep him awake. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Good and bad... it's good for short trips home when she is tired, but tough for long trips... we drove from Philly to Vermont when she was like 5 months old and she seriously napped like 20 minutes the whole time in a 6+ hour drive, and it's gotten worse from there. Fortunately, I hate being in the car so I also try to avoid long drives where possible. |
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Post by Bluebird on Jun 6, 2017 13:22:53 GMT -6
We are just wrapping up with this transition (DS never fought either nap, so I just kept on with it). Late morning is still a struggle because he really could go down at 10, but that totally kills our afternoon. I find that we absolutely have to get out of the house to power through, then come home to eat some lunch before he goes down. Good luck!
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Post by robot on Jun 6, 2017 19:09:46 GMT -6
2 to 1 nap was tough. I heard a sleep consultant describe it as the time when 2 naps is too many but 1 is not enough. Yeah. And you're not the only person I've heard say that their kid dropped the afternoon nap instead of the morning one.
We got to that stage too, where the morning nap was ruining her afternoon one but she seemed so tired. I started planning activities that were really engaging in the mornings but not too far from home to prevent a crappy car nap. And I would say just gradually try to push the time back. At first her afternoon nap was short but it got longer and more consistent. I feel like it's one of those transitions you just have to power through.
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Post by fuzzylogic on Jun 6, 2017 19:31:29 GMT -6
I want to say that this all happened for us when E was in daycare, so...I didn't have to deal with it all that much  But it wasn't that big a deal for us, from what I recall. I don't have any terrible memories of it. |
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Post by westiemom on Jun 6, 2017 19:40:49 GMT -6
Omg we are struggling big time! She needs her morning nap then fights afternoon nap. When she finally does fall asleep for afternoon, it's like 3:30 and then she doesn't want to go to bed at night!
We tried 1 nap for a week and she was unbearable. She was crazy! She won't sleep past an hour and a half.
How old were all of your kiddos when you transitioned?
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Post by italianmommy on Jun 7, 2017 5:21:19 GMT -6
My daughter dropped her second nap around the same time as your LO. It was a challenging couple months as we found the "sweet spot" of afternoon nap time. I don't have much advice but I'm here to say that my daughter is almost 2 and we all survived. She is in a nap strike right now, but once she got into the one-nap groove, my previously shitty napper would take anywhere from 1.5-3 hr afternoon naps. It's a difficult time, but you'll get through it!
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Post by expatmama11 on Jun 7, 2017 5:31:17 GMT -6
Omg we are struggling big time! She needs her morning nap then fights afternoon nap. When she finally does fall asleep for afternoon, it's like 3:30 and then she doesn't want to go to bed at night! We tried 1 nap for a week and she was unbearable. She was crazy! She won't sleep past an hour and a half. How old were all of your kiddos when you transitioned? We transitioned to 1 nap at 14 months. I waited to do it until he was refusing his afternoon nap after napping for a short time in the morning. The sleep training program I used for him said keep trying for both naps for a bit to see if it's just temporary issue. I only did it for a week though and decided to just go for it. He is almost 19 months and he still wants to nap around 10-11 but I make him stay awake until about 12 most of the time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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