When to drop down to one nap?

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My girl just turned 14 months, and even though I've heard from a couple places to stick to two naps until she's 18 months, I think I need to go down to one ASAP simply because she won't sleep during the first nap (11:00) anymore; she just plays in her crib. She may fall asleep after an hour, but sometimes I go get her at 1:00 and she hasn't slept

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[juliel]

I'm definitely no babywise expert, but after fighting(not really fighting, but you know what I mean..) with Hannah for WEEKS(6-7) to get her to sleep through the night again, we stretched her morning, so instead of going down for a nap at 11:30am, she gets lunch at 12(so only an extra half hour..) then I give her about 15minutes playtime after, and she's in bed by 1pm everyday.

The first 2 days she slept her normal 1.5hours, but now, somedays, she pushes 3, and is sleeping through the night again.. :)

[juliel]

oh..and Amy and Hannah are the same age(give or take..?) Hannah will be 14months on the 26th.. :)

[mybabythomas]

That's pretty much what happened with Thomas at around 13-14 months. He started fighting sleep for weeks on end, and then one day I stopped trying to put him down for his morning nap and just gave him lunch a bit earlier, and he had a 2-hour nap in the afternoon and was fine. We've been following the same routine ever since, and he's 18 months old now and it's still working just fine.

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Yesterday she wasn't asleep at 12:30 so I went ahead and gave her lunch and put her back down a little after one. That seemed to work okay and she slept until about 3:45, but she still seems to get too tired in the evening...she gets really wound up - and adrenline junkie like her mom. ;) Thanks for the help...I'll give it a week.

Of course, as soon as I nail down a two nap routine I have to change it....