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I would stick with it. I remember we had some rocky days when we transitioned to one nap. Is she sleepy at 11:30? Or, do you think stretching her to 12 or 12:30 would help her sleep longer ?

I would suggest pushing her nap time up a little bit at a time till its closer to like 12:30 or 1 so she exerts more energy in the morning requiring a longer nap.

When we first transitioned, nap time was around 11:30 and he would sleep for a few hours. It was a bit of a struggle to get to 11:30, though, and Ben was waking up at 6:45-7 am at that point. So I'm curious if even a few minutes earlier might help her sleep longer? Is she super tired when she goes down for her nap?

He will still occasionally wake too early, but usually does go back to sleep if I leave him be for 10-15 minutes, so I think we just got lucky.

I'm in the same boat with my 17 month old! We tried to make the transition a few weeks ago, and it went terribly. Now trying again. We put him down at 12:30, and he didn't sleep at all for 45 minutes. So we are trying again at 2:30, which I know is way too late. On two nap days, he sleeps about 2.5-3 hours a day. On one nap days, he sleeps 45 minutes to an hour and is a complete terror!

I would move her nap time earlier and move bedtime earlier too. It takes some time to make the transition.

@luckypenny: Oh yeah that's early. I'd even try 11:15. But it's likely temporary? Ben was able to push back his nap to 12-1230 once he adjusted. The going back to sleep was just good luck on our part, not something I did. He naps less now than he did even just a month or two ago. Who knows.

DS transitioned himself to one nap when he was 11 months (super early!) and we went through this, too. Luckily it was just a phase. Eventually he started sleeping longer and longer for his one nap, now he regularly sleeps 2-3 hours for his nap which is nice.

DS used to go to bed super early around 6 like your LO, now bedtime isn't until 8/830 and he still wakes up at 630, occasionally he sleeps until 7. As he gets older, his sleep needs decrease. We're at the awkward stage now where he still needs a nap but when he takes one (especially a 3 hour one), he goes to bed later and later. He sleeps a lot better and longer at night without a nap but I'm not ready to give it up, yet

@luckypenny: @NurseDMB: This is exactly what my 16 month old is doing. She doesn't want to nap at all so we decided to consolidate the naps to one nap at 1:00pm but typically she won't make it to 1pm. She's exhausted by 12:30. She would cry even though she is exhausted and fall asleep still sitting. She is also waking up at night because most likely she didn't nap well during the day. Prior to this she has always been a good night sleeper. She is not teething. This is already a week now.
I was wondering when will she extend her nap? Will her nap be even extended? Any suggestions on how I can extend her nap? Will she sleep better at night?