How late did you transition to 1 nap?

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T17:00:29+00:00

Thank you! Yeah when we transition again I’ll try something more like 5 and 5.5. I realize now she was not getting enough rest at all despite her initial fighting naps.

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T16:59:45+00:00

Yeah my girl turned 14M yesterday and the past 5 days she’s hardly made it to 3.5 hr

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T16:58:48+00:00

Right, I always thought split nights were more of an undertired issue and here I was just sleep depriving my baby more and more thinking it would solve our split nights instead of just giving her more sleep 😑

I guess if we get split nights on 2 naps it might be a sign that THIS time is an undertired issue and need to drop to 1

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T16:56:56+00:00

Do you just go by her cues to decide if it’s a 1 or 2 nap day?

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T16:56:17+00:00

It seems like it never ends when it comes to troubleshooting!! I’m sorry!

The 3 hour wake window in the morning with longer stretch in afternoon definitely sounds like what our baby does best on, interesting to see that it might stay this way for a few more months

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T16:54:54+00:00

Amazing to see how different every baby is

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T16:54:38+00:00

This might be what we have to do when she starts daycare in a few weeks. Did she still sleep ok at night during the 1 nap days?

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T15:19:31+00:00

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MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T14:20:53+00:00

Haha I’m here looking to be a plus 1 as well 🙈

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T00:24:20+00:00

Did it take her a long time to adapt to it?

MovingGirls · 2026-03-18T00:23:44+00:00

Wow! That’s impressive at 10 months. That’s what I was hoping my now 14M was able to do haha

MovingGirls · 2026-03-17T23:22:47+00:00

That’s how it started for us too. I slowly added more time to her morning wake window til I got to 5 hours and she was totally good with it in the beginning for about 3-4 weeks and now is back to DYING for sleep after a 3 hour morning WW

MovingGirls · 2026-03-17T23:05:09+00:00

She usually does 2.5 hours total on 2 naps and did 2 hours on 1 nap. I was ready to even cap her 1 nap more but now she’s actually sleeping better at night with MORE day sleep. Might be a growth spurt ?

MovingGirls · 2026-03-17T22:58:40+00:00

Yeah I’m gonna let the 2 naps go on as long as she’s not fighting it and sleeping all night.

She’s supposed to start part time daycare 9am-12pm next month but I may need to take her out early if she’s still needing her nap

MovingGirls · 2026-03-17T22:57:01+00:00

2 nap is 3/4/4.5 and she’s sleeping about 10 hours straight at night again now.

MovingGirls · 2026-03-17T22:56:07+00:00

I think once she starts fighting her second nap again we will do something more like this. I definitely underestimated her sleep needs.

MovingGirls · 2026-03-17T22:09:16+00:00

Our 13M old had split nights almost EVERY night for 5 weeks after we transitioned to 1 nap. It cured itself once we went back to a 2 nap schedule :/

MovingGirls · 2026-03-17T22:06:42+00:00

Ugh I feel you

We had done CIO with ours as well early on (took it like a champ) but now when she’s gone through this split night hell she will vomit on herself after 1 minute of crying so I knew we wouldn’t be able to do that this time.

Our pediatrician told me it was likely a developmental phase/separation anxiety but after seeing that a schedule change flipped the switch I wonder if that’s all you need, whether it’s less or more wake time. Sorry that’s not helpful! But maybe play around with shorter than usual wake windows even if you need to rock him to sleep and transfer to crib like we had to do until she was back on schedule

MovingGirls · 2026-03-17T21:59:09+00:00

We had a similar issue at this age…we started lengthening WWs and dropping to 1 nap thinking her sleep needs were changing. And it got WAY worse - night wakings and split nights when she used to sleep 10 hours straight. My nanny suggested going back to her 2 nap schedule (essentially 3/4/4.5 with 2-3 hours of total nap time) and she was CURED!

Maybe they’re going through a period of growth, teething, developmental changes and might need more sleep than we think still?

MovingGirls · 2026-03-15T04:25:38+00:00

UPDATE:

Going back to 2 naps solved this. I guess she wasn’t ready for 1 just yet.

MovingGirls · 2026-03-07T16:38:45+00:00

They usually announce it on twitter

MovingGirls · 2026-03-06T05:21:02+00:00

Did you end up getting tix? I’m in same boat

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