another nap question

Did one or both of your kids take a short nap in the beginning and eventually lengthen in?

DD WAS sleeping about 1-1.5 hours in the morning and 1.5 hours in the afternoon. Today is day two of one nap and yesterday she slept for a little over 2 hours and today she woke up after only 1.5 hours. I went up there and turned her lullabies back on and laid her back down and she is quiet but I'm just curious what others experiences with transitioning to one nap has been.

thanks

 

It's been almost a month since we've switched & we're still not marathon nappers anymore. My boys used to nap 2+ hrs in the am 3-4 times a week, so I knew they were capable of it. Now that we're on 1 nap, Aiden is almost clockwork 1 1/2 hrs. It sucks. Some days, it's only ONE hour. I never allow them out until 90 mins, so they have fallen back to sleep a few times. Conner has finally started to go 2 hours or so each day. And, I'm happy to report, Aiden slept 2 hrs today!

From what I heard on here, it takes time. It's taking us over a month, but I think we're finally getting the hang of it!

Hang in there!

 

My girls were sleeping 2-3 hours before we transitioned. After the transition, I was getting about 45 min. - 1 hour naps. I held strong, kept putting them down at the same time, and it eventually lengthened. It did take a good bit of time, I would say at least a week or two.

 

reluctantly, we have switched to one nap a day even though they are still very young (14mo) but they have never been good nappers. I'd be lucky if I got a 45min nap twice a day. Now that they are at one nap a day they go anywhere 1-2hrs. Still not great but I will take it. They do sleep stright through the night though from 6pm until 7:30am so I feel lucky with that.