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We JUST did the transition last week, right as C turned 1. Our schedule used to look like this:

8:30am- Wake up
110:30am- Nap
2:30- Nap
6:30- Bedtime

She was doing the same thing, playing for up to an hour before falling asleep for a nap. We finally took the plunge and her schedule look like this now:

8:30- wakeup
12:30- nap
6:30- bedtime

She did go from taking 2 1-1.5 hour naps to taking 1 2-2.5 hour naps, which is good I guess.

My LO starting fighting his afternoon nap around 12 months. I didn't think he was ready to transition since he still went down easily for his morning nap (around 10 or 10:30 after waking around 7). So I started to limit that morning nap to 45 mins. or an hour max. Then he was usually tired enough to take an afternoon nap around 2 or 3.

When he started fighting the nap again, at 15 months, we switched cold turkey. I started keeping up until noon, and then I pushed it to 1. Key was keeping him really active during that transition period (and NOT allowing any mid-morning snoozes in the car, which can still be dicey). Now he generally naps from 1 to 3 every day ... sometimes until 4 if he's super tired. Wake-up is around 7, and bedtime is usually around 8.

DS just transitioned a few weeks ago. I knew he was ready to drop his nap when it would take over an hour for him to go down for his second nap of the day. He'd go down fine in the morning, sleep for an hour, but four hours later he'd fight me to go back to sleep. I just cold turkey switched him one day, and it took him about one week to fully transition. He's been on the one nap schedule for about 3.5 weeks but today we're back on two naps since he's sick and wants to sleep more. Before, our schedule looked like:

6:00 wake up
9:00-10:00 first nap
1:00-2:30/3:00 second nap
7:00/7:30 bedtime
(1-2 night wakings)

Now our schedule looks like:
7:30 wake up
12:00-3:00/3:30 nap
7:00 bedtime