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Sounds similar to us. Lala is now 2 and has adapted really well to the situation. When she was napping at school, the teachers were kind of shocked with how long she slept, but that's how she makes up her sleep. Monday mornings can be kind of challenging to get back on schedule. M is such a good sleeper that we just don't worry about her. She goes to bed at 7:30 pm without a fuss every night.

I'm glad to hear kids adapt. Our LO sleeps in pretty late these days, and when I go back to work I'm not looking forward to her being woken up to early and being a cranky girl.

Our LO sleeps on a similar schedule - about 9pm to 6am. Before I went back to work, she would take a big morning nap from 6am (immediately after finishing her bottle) to about 9am, but basically zero other naps during the day. Now that she's in daycare, she just spreads her naps out during the day. She isn't a big napper, but isn't fussy and doesn't display any other signs of not getting enough sleep. We start out bedtime routine at 7:30pm.

We have a very short bed time routine. We leave at 6:40am as well and get home around 5. We start her bed time routine at 7 and shes in bed by 7:30, maybe 8 pm at the latest. If she has a bath (we are bad and only do bath every other night) shes out of the bath before 7:15 or so.

If you work on getting her to bed earlier, it will be enough sleep. If you get home at 5, you can aim for a 6:30 bedtime maybe? I am home by 5:30 with DD and she goes to bed by 7 at the latest so she can get about 12 hrs of sleep.

@Thehistoryofus: we pushed charlie to one nap at 15 1/2 months. he could have been taking 2 naps for a little while longer, but he was able to stay awake longer between his naps, so we had to shorten his naps so that his bedtime wouldn't be too late.

12 months is early to drop the second nap. most of my friends' kids dropped it around the 15-16 month mark too. olive is almost 1 year, and she is no where near being able to do 1 nap. she's only up 2 1/2 hours before her first nap of the day.

most kids nap 2-3 hours once they're down to 1 nap (our daycare allows 2 1/2 hour naps, but most give a 2 hour nap). charlie can nap up to 4 hours if we let him!

can you start her routine at 6? Olive's bath is at 6 and she's in bed by 6:30. that would allow her to get 12 hours at night? it would be especially important when daycare drops her to one nap since she won't be able to make up the sleep with her naps.

I don't think so...my son is a terrible sleeper by most definitions of good sleep, and I stay at home with him. I can only imagine what happens when school starts!

Ever since Wagon Jr. was a baby, as soon as work was over we'd shove dinner down his throat then throw him in the bath and put him straight to bed. His bedtime routine has pretty much always started between 6 and 6:30. He's a great sleeper... but lil Miss Wagon won't do the same. We try to start her bedtime routine around 7 but she usually isn't down for the night until past 10pm so honestly, I think all kids are just different.

It takes time to learn proper planning but you will figure out what works best. AND daycare will eventually realize if LO is constantly crying that they need to let her nap longer.... You can request she gets longer naps, too.
I'm nervous about this, too (going back in 2 weeks).