https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:03:09 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1384438 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:48:05 +0000 birdofafeather 1384438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JennyD: she goes to bed around 730 and is a late riser around 8/830! So I know she's sleeping enough overnight. It looks like distraction is the name of the game!</p> <p>@Andrea: we start swim classes next week! @betsyboop: I was second guessing myself because I've read that 12 months is pretty early to transition but I should have trusted my gut because yesterday was a mess! Going to stick with 1 nap. Now I just have to rearrange my thinking about mornings! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1383002 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:40:49 +0000 JennyD 1383002@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can she go to bed a bit earlier and/or get up later in the morning? I find my LO just needs a certain number of hours of sleep in a 24 hour period. At daycare she has a nap, but on daycare days she gets up earlier in the morning than on weekends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1382994 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:35:38 +0000 Kemma 1382994@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Food! Or some sort of activity to distract them </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1382973 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:15:27 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1382973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I put him down early if he really needs it - but he rarely will take a second. Usually it works ok. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1382942 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:45:07 +0000 Sammyfab 1382942@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lots of distraction! We would always go run errands and go outside if it wasn't too cold. I often had to keep my LO up during the car ride home. Having lunch or a snack about an hour before the desired naptime also helped to 'kill time.'</p> <p>We also didn't go back and forth between 1 and 2 naps but the transition went pretty smoothly for us so we never felt like we had to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1382881 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:02:57 +0000 betsyboop 1382881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm with @weagle, we went for a couple of weeks playing it by ear, switching between 1 and 2 naps, and it was rough. I signed her up for a late morning music class which really helped keep her occupied and made for a smoother transition to 1 nap! Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1382838 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:44:32 +0000 Weagle 1382838@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I found it was easier to just stick with the transition until it was complete. Waffling between two naps was confusing. We certainly planned something for most, if not alarming until she got the hang of it. Sometimes a play date at our house, sometimes a walk to the park or around the mall. Anything stimulating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1382672 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:27:23 +0000 Andrea 1382672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is why I signed us up for music class and baby time. It's easier to get through the meltdown time if we're out of the house. The morning zooms on by and then it's nap time. Yay! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1382636 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:12:42 +0000 lovehoneybee 1382636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>E's the same way, still. I just do what I can to distract and keep him up for as long as possible. Sometimes it's going out, sometimes it's dancing, sometimes it's just playing or reading. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.</p> <p>ETA: Sorry, I'm no help. It's hit or miss here still. Maybe you'd probably have an easier time if you gradually pushed back the morning nap over the course of a week or two rather than just trying to keep her away for a large block of time right away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transitioning-to-1-nap#post-1382619 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:05:55 +0000 birdofafeather 1382619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i've read as many threads as i could about the transition and LO has shown that she can definitely do 1 nap well, but some mornings, she's just melting down early on. so this morning i put her down early and she fell right asleep. since i knew it was going to be a two-nap day, i woke her up so her afternoon naptime wouldn't interfere with bedtime.</p> <p>and now she's been fighting the nap for an hour. which she NEVER does.</p> <p>so i'm thinking i need to bite the bullet and go to 1 nap a day exclusively, but i'm really wondering what to do about the lull when she starts losing it 2-2.5 hours after she wakes up in the morning (when i would usually put her down for a morning nap). do you go out and do something every day at that time? i was playing with her and she was just whining and crying no matter what we did. :(</p> <p>she dropped other naps on her own, so this keeping her up on purpose thing is going to be different! </p>