Hellobee Boards

We still have this issue at 22 months

We limit his morning nap to 30 minutes and try to do it as a car nap so that it's punctuated by a fun destination.

His schedule on these days would look like this:
5:30 AM - wake-up
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM - nap
1:00 PM - 3:15 PM - nap
7:30 PM - bedtime

Would he take his afternoon nap earlier? Maybe 2-330ish and shoot for 7:30 bedtime?

K's on one nap and still wakes up at 5:30

@snowjewelz: Same here. One nap and still wakes up around 5am

20 months over here and we still have some 2 nap days. My ped said its still very normal and OK if he seems like he needs it that day.

MOST days we do 1 nap. Some days we do the exact 2 nap schedule you mentioned, but bedtime is rarely past 7:30. (Partly because he can't handle it, partly because I can't handle it. Lol)

BUT if we get into that early wake up rut like you mentioned, and I want to get back to 1 nap, I will tend to do a later morning nap (like 11) and he'll wake up at 1 or so and then we do earlier bedtim instead of trying to force another nap. So while we normally do 7/7:30 bedtime, we'll do 6:30. At that point he's been up a long time and is tired enough for it, and he still wakes up at a normal-ish time.
I try to never do more than 5/5.5 hours awake at a time.

Example:
Wake up at 6am (early for him)
Nap: 11am - 1pm
Lots of activities/errands!!!!!
6:30pm bedtime

And this will usually reset him to be back on a 6:30/7 wakeup.

But, also, is it possible you are heading into the 18 month regression? I noticed a lot more early morning wakeups during that and there wasn't much I could do to change it.

@winniebee: That's pretty much K's schedule now. She's up by 5:30 the latest but can now hold out till almost 11:30. The later she sleeps the longer she sleeps!