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Blerg. We're in this awkward stage too. Not enough time for two naps. One works great and he goes down for bed much easier, but now he wakes up earlier!!

No advice. Just in the same boat!

Probably not what you want to hear, but my Lo went through this stage fro 13-15 months. It was a combination of learning to walk and molars. Depending on his wakeup time, we switched between 1 or 2 naps for the day. There was a lot of 5 a.m. wakeups. I usually would give him a bottle and lay in the guest bedroom with him and about 60% of the time he would eventually fall back asleep, but I drank a lot of coffee.

At 17 months it really seems to finally be sorting itself out and morning wakeups moved to around 6:30 am. (bedtime is 7 p.m.).

I think it's a blip/regression and will just suck for a time. Caffeine to the rescue!

Well there is regression at 11- 12 months which affects naps and my Dd is taking forever to go down for night. Somedays she doesn't fall asleep till 9. So I am hoping this is a phase plus she has her 4 molars coming.
I have read alot about this transition, I am obsessed with sleep so here goes the novel:
This is one of the toughest transition in sleep and takes long time(months). Longer wake times result in overtiredness which can lead to earlier wakeup. So on those days if she wakes up early you can try a shorter morning nap like 30 mins and longer afternoon nap.
If you're planning to stick to one nap then start with 4 hr waketime for nap and bedtime at 6 hours after nap ends. Then stretch wake time by 15 minutes after 3-4 days until you reach 5 hr waketime. Goal is to have 5/5 waketwaketime for nap and bedtime.
Hope this helps, you can always try 2 naps and can limit total daytime sleep to like 2.5 hrs and see if it helps.

We had to move his bedtime back after a while but total number of hours stayed the same/improved.

Night wasn't really affected, but they just consolidated their naps from two shorter ones of 1.5 hrs each, to one long nap of 3 hours. It was awesome once they officially made the leap from 2 to 1!

we had this issue a few times during the transition, because she too transitioned at around a year and just WOULD NOT go down for a second nap for anything. once we went to one nap strictly for a little while, she started waking early and needed a second nap, and then she stopped resisting the second nap so much because she was so tired. if we couldn't get the second nap on those days, we'd just do something chill and let her rest for a little while even if she didn't nap. to fully complete the 2-1 transition took FOREVER, i think because she dropped the 2nd nap so early. but we just went with the flow and switched back and forth between 2 and 1 based on her day.

@Foodnerd81: hahaha our blips are the "OMG she slept till after 7" too. false hope!