https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:01:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2539165 Mon, 02 May 2016 16:33:48 +0000 FaithFertility 2539165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@macintosh: My DD is very low sleep needs in my opinion, I'd definitely try 1 nap </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2539144 Mon, 02 May 2016 16:02:05 +0000 macintosh 2539144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So the next few days after I posted this, LO's sleep returned to pretty normal. Then a few days ago he woke up super early before 6 and never really went back to sleep. He's also been cutting his naps short, in addition to waking earlier than usual. I think we may have to start working on the nap transition as he seems to need less sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535891 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:28:54 +0000 gingerbebe 2535891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@macintosh: So he used to sleep from 10-12 and then 2-4 and be down from 730pm to 7-730am-ish. Once we started to have nap problems, we initially pushed the AM nap to 1015am and then 1030am, and then woke him at noon. We pushed the PM nap at the same time to 230pm and got him at 4pm if he wasn't already up by then. That worked for like 2 weeks and then every time the PM nap would suffer, we would chop the AM nap down some more but keep the 230pm nap steady. He'd go down at 1030am and I would wake him at 1130am. Once we got to the point where a 30-45 minute catnap was messing up the PM nap we pushed him until 11am by doing lots of outdoor play in the morning at the park, washing him off and changing him into comfy clothes, and then having a heavy snack at 1030am. We'd let him sleep as long as he wanted once we put him down at 11am and do lunch when he woke up. Like I said before it took a while before he would extend that nap past 2 hours because he wasn't used to sleeping more than 2 hours at a time, but we just pushed through it. We would do lunch around 1pm or when he woke up, a light snack at 3pm, and then dinner around 5pm, and that killed some time. We did extra long baths in the PM because he really likes bath time and he would be less cranky. And we did 7pm bedtimes for a while because I could live with that. As the sleep transferred to nights, the nap would extend and once we got to a 2.5-3 hour nap I would push the start of nap time by 15 minute increments. Once I could get him to a 12pm nap time we moved lunch to 11am and then hoped he would poop before nap (you will probably have poops destroying naps for a while until their systems figure it out, FYI). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535888 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:26:15 +0000 mfa_lady 2535888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter slept like complete crack for a month after her first birthday, after STTN since 4.5 months old. For us, I think it was a combination of physical milestones (she started walking) and teeth (it took all month for her four one-year molars to come in) and then, one day, it just got better. She also transitioned to one nap at daycare during this time, but in our case, I don't think it had a big effect. </p> <p>Hang in there, mama! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535851 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:05:43 +0000 macintosh 2535851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: Oh man, good point. I do NOT want to be waking up at 6 am every day. I had the nanny wake him yesterday after about 1.5 hours in the morning, but he still only did 30 minutes in the afternoon. How long would you let him sleep in the AM before waking him? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535839 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:57:42 +0000 gingerbebe 2535839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@macintosh: Yeah we never had issues with going down for the AM nap - it was always the PM nap that was affected but he couldn't make it from noon to 7:30pm. He would flat refuse to sleep for the PM nap and he'd just spend his time screaming in his crib, but be a melting down mess by 6pm, which is too damn early for bed because my kid won't sleep past 12 hours!!</p> <p>I knew eventually the one nap would have to go after lunch so as painful as it was I spent 3 months waking a sleeping baby from morning nap (and he was pissed off about it most days). But it just took the edge off long enough that he would be tired for that PM nap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535830 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:50:36 +0000 brownepiano 2535830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we switched to one nap it was definitely the second nap that was suffering, not the first. We also shortened the first nap and kept the second at the same time because we knew it eventually would need to be earlier. In the end we just had to bite the bullet and force him into one nap. We'd give him a snack around the time he'd normally have a nap to help him have more energy. </p> <p>I'm not sure if you'd want to switch altogether yet or just try a shorter first nap for a while. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535823 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:46:49 +0000 macintosh 2535823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@junebugsmama: Yes, when we were out running around on Saturday he was up from 9 am to after 1 pm and he did pretty well. It must be the distraction of an active day.</p> <p>@petitenoisette: That's so interesting. I guess I just figured the 1 nap was supposed to be halfway between waking up and going to bed, but maybe not for all kids. I'll try just letting him sleep as long as he needs for this morning nap and just pay it by ear in the afternoon. It sure would free up some time to run errands! He does seem to need a lot of sleep, but last night he STTN even though he barely napped in the afternoon, thank goodness.</p> <p>@Mama Bird: I do think he needs an earlier bedtime. I'm always shooting for 7 but sometimes we just have too much to do with dinner, bath, etc. I'll try focusing on an earlier dinner so we have flexibility to put him down early. I don't think it's teeth, he already has all 8 front teeth. I'm thinking it's more developmental. He just started saying Mama and Dada :heart: He's also getting better at standing unsupported. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535792 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:31:21 +0000 Mama Bird 2535792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hmmm... my son has pretty low sleep needs and he only had a morning nap most days at that age. He switched to an afternoon nap when he started day care at one, but only because that's their schedule. Maybe he'll be happier if you drop the afternoon nap and put him to bed a bit earlier...</p> <p>The night waking could be developmental, or maybe teeth... but it's so hard to tell with kids! Maybe a couple of weeks from now he'll learn a new skill and his sleep will get better again! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535791 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:31:02 +0000 petitenoisette 2535791@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@macintosh: My LO is the same way about needing the am nap and not the PM. She's 14 months and if she takes a long am nap (for us 2.5-3 hours) she definitely won't take a second. She does not melt down not having the afternoon nap like she does in the am when she's clearly ready for her first nap after 2-3 hours awake. I think it makes sense for them to have a longer stretch awake before bedtime to get them tired for a long night's sleep. </p> <p>It does seem like 11-12 hours at night and 3-4 hours of nap during the day seems like a lot of sleeping for an almost 1 year old! So maybe try to shorten the naps or maybe just a catnap for the second? I don't really know, my LO is a pretty bad sleeper for the most part so I'm not really any help :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535783 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:27:44 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2535783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@macintosh: it's a pretty gradual tough time. @gingerbebe: helped me with a nice long response when I wrote a post similar a few months ago! I noticed that on days my son woke up early he definitely needed a morning nap. Then the second nap would be short, maybe just 30 min to get us till bedtime. On days he slept in a little bit, I would try to make sure we were out and about. He would seem ready for a nap much earlier at home whereas out and about he Could play longer. Once he could last consistently till 11, it worked out really well. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535777 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:22:04 +0000 macintosh 2535777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: thanks for replying! I thought I'd try pushing his nap back today. He woke at 8 but but 10 he was getting crabby (typical timeframe) and I knew it was nap time. It's almost like he needs the morning nap but not the afternoon one, which seems so strange to me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535508 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:51:00 +0000 gingerbebe 2535508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went through a long painful transition to 1 nap between 11 months and 14 months. It was so annoying. He had been sleeping 11-12 hours a night and took two 2-hour naps at 10am and 2pm during the day when it all went to hell. </p> <p>First we tweaked both naps so that they started 30 minutes later (basically we cut both naps down to 90 minutes each). Then we cut the AM nap shorter by 15-30 minutes whenever it started to affect the PM nap. At the point where even a 30 minute catnap in the morning was affecting the afternoon nap, we moved to 1 nap at 11am (fed a heavier snack at 1030am and then lunch when he woke up). It took about a month for that nap to extend beyond 2 hours, and once it did, we pushed the nap slowly 30 minutes at a time until we could do 11am lunch and 12pm nap. By 16 months we did 11:30am lunch and 12:30pm nap and we've pretty much stayed there since and DS is just shy of 20 months now. He sleeps about 2-2.5 hours for nap, 3 if he's tired, and still has his normal 730pm bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-transition-wonder-week-separation-anxiety#post-2535469 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:16:43 +0000 macintosh 2535469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My almost 1 year old has had some seriously messed up sleep for the past few days. Since he was about 9 months old he has had the same schedule: 11-12 hours at night (usually STTN), then 2 naps of 1.5-2 hours each. Great, right?</p> <p>Usually any MOTN wake-ups are brief, but lately he's had a few MOTN wake-ups that were rough. He was crying really hard and he took a long time to go back to sleep. Then he will sleep late the next morning (like 9 am!) and throw off that day's nap schedule which pushes back nap time.</p> <p>He goes down at bed time easily but occasionally he fights one of his naps, which makes me wonder if he doesn't need 2 naps. On Saturday he woke up late and we had to be somewhere at 11 so he skipped his morning nap and he was fine.</p> <p>Yesterday his morning nap was long and the afternoon nap was shorter. Went to bed around 7:45 and woke up at 9pm hysterically crying. He would not calm down when I went in to comfort him. I tried leaving him to cry it out but he just kept crying on an off for over an hour. He finally stopped when I gave in and brought him out of his room. He burned off some energy and went back to sleep in his crib 30 minutes later.</p> <p>Today I woke him at 8 am because he's normally up by 7:30. The nanny woke him from his morning nap (with my permission) cause it was going late. Apparently he only took a 30 minute nap this afternoon and was hysterically crying wanting to get out of his crib.</p> <p>I know he just started a Wonder Week. I know he's a little young for a nap transition, and I know his normal schedule is all screwed up. I just can't figure out what's wrong! I'm tempted to try him on a one nap schedule because my efforts to keep him on a 2 nap schedule are not currently working. Any suggestions? </p>