Does anyone who is down to one nap do a "noon time " nap and lunch after nap?

Our twins are 20 months old and have been down to one nap for some time now. They usually wake around 7 and I get them up at 7:30ish and then they have breakfast. They have a snack around 10 and then lunch around 12ish and then down for a nap. After nap they have a snack (usually around 3ish by the time they go to sleep and get up), then they have supper around 5-5:30 and a snack around 7:30 and then to be at 8. I am trying to figure out if I need to do a schedule adjustment. Let me expain why. It appears, by the way they act that they get tired aroun 11 - 11:30. They are really whiny and clingy. Of course most of the time I can get them distracted but they, especially dd, has meltdown easily. When they finish with lunch and are put down for a nap it takes forever for them to get to sleep. (like 45 minutes to an hour sometimes) Sometimes they are fussing sometimes just messing around. I often wonder if they have gotten past the "sleepy" time. When they do get to sleep they sleep for about an hour and a half. I might be thinking this through to much. We have wanted to push their supper back some because right now I feed the three kids and then my dh gets home around 6:30 and we tend to eat after they go to bed around 8:30ish. I have a friend that has a singleton who gets up around 7, has a morning snack, takes a nap around 11:30ish and then has lunch when she gets up. I am not sure if she has an afternoon snack or not, but has supper with the family and then doesn't require a snack (drink only) before bedtime. I believe she goes to bed around 7:30ish. I was thinking if I tried this schedule it would give them a chance to rest earlier, when the whiney time seems to be and then we could try eating supper together with dh and have storytime and a drink snack before bed(rather than a food and drink snack). Anyway, does anyone do this type schedule, does it work or am I crazy for considering it? THANKS FOR READING!!!

 

We did with M&T, and we do with Aisley now.
A seems to get tired between 11 and 12:30, depending on how her day is going. Her schedule is as follows:
7:30-8 AM wake up, change diaper and breakfest. Snack 10:30-11 am.
Nap 11-12:30 start and ends between 2:30-3:30 depending on how tired she is, and if we have to pick up M&T from pre-K. Snack 3-3:45 for all three kids. Dinner is then at 5-5:30. Bath time at 6:30 and bed time is 7:15-7:45PM. The two snack bracketing her nap seem to work very well for her, and her growth has been great.
M&T did a similar schedule when they went to one nap a day around 10 months until they gave up naps entirely almost three. It works (and worked) well for us.

 

Instead of moving the nap, why don't you feed them lunch earlier. We did lunch anytime after 11:15 and then nap right after lunch. I then got a 3-4 hour nap out of them.

 

Our schedule is similar but we do lunch at 11:00ish, nap at 12:30. They get a light snack around 9:30. Mine also get really cranky right before lunch, but lunch seems to push them through till nap. When we first switched to one nap though, they went down at 10:30 and had lunch when they woke (1:30-2:00). You could try it either way and see what works for you.

 

My girls are 20 months also, and we do lunch at @11:00, and nap at 12. We just switched to toddler beds, so our naps have been pushed back to @12:30. They generally sleep until 2:30 and then have a light snack with milk when they awake at 3pm.

Good luck

 

We do! Our girls really seem to start getting tired around 11-11:30am, so we usually go ahead and put them down for a nap and then end up doing lunch somewhere around 2-3pm. I know it's weird, but that's what works for us. At daycare they have lunch at 12 and nap at 1-1:30, but they also usually only sleep for an hour there! If they take a nap around 11am at home, they are usually in there for 2-3 hours, and it just works out the best for them.

 

When we first switched to one nap, they were going down at 11:30. They ate breakfast about 8, lunch at 11 (I made sure it was ready and they were at the table at 11) then a meal type snack at 3/3:30 (made sure they had a protein, carb and fruit) then dinner with the family between 5:30 and 6 and bed at 7. They eventually needed a shorter nap and now they eat between 11:30 and 12 and go down between 12:30 and 1. Do whatever works for your kiddos!

 

Thanks for all the responses. I might give it a try and see what happens. They have been on one nap for a long time. They switched close to their one year birthday, maybe a few months after. The current situation just started happening not to long ago. The friend that I mentioned in my original post mentioned her schedule and I got to thinking about it. They seem to get tired around 11/11:30, but definatley have a second wind by 1ish when they have had lunch and go down for a nap. I really wonder if that is what is taking them so long to go to sleep. I am not catching them at the right time. They are currently going to be at 8 (in bed at that time). I have a feeling that if I move nap up that they nap their bedtime might need to move up also. They are sleeping about 1.5 hours now. Way back when, when we first went to 1 nap they did like 3 hours, but it slowly changed. 1.5 hours isn't horrible by any means, I just want to make sure they are getting what they need, because they often wake up fussy too. I guess I won't know until I try it. Thanks!

 

We used to do that. It seems like ages ago, but I think we did about 2 hours from around 10.30 and then fed them when they woke up.

Do whatever works best for you.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one whose kidos get an early lunch!
We're up at 6/6:30 (what an improvement!!! woo hoo!)
7am breakfast
11am lunch
12pm nap
snack around 2:30/3pm
5pm dinner
7pm bed (with cup of milk beforehand).

Hubby is not home until 6:30 and that's too late for us to eat (including me). So, right now, we don't eat as complete family. I eat with the boys.

 

yup we do it. We feed after the nap because we eat dinner later. We do b-fast and snack then nap and then lunch and dinner.

 

We do. We take nap and have lunch afterward so the girls can have lunch with Nana. (We get up at 8 eat at 9 snack at 11 then nap lunch at 2 snack at 4 supper at 7 bed at 9)

 

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Originally posted by Emerald:
We did with M&T, and we do with Aisley now.
A seems to get tired between 11 and 12:30, depending on how her day is going. Her schedule is as follows:
7:30-8 AM wake up, change diaper and breakfest. Snack 10:30-11 am.
Nap 11-12:30 start and ends between 2:30-3:30 depending on how tired she is, and if we have to pick up M&T from pre-K. Snack 3-3:45 for all three kids. Dinner is then at 5-5:30. Bath time at 6:30 and bed time is 7:15-7:45PM. The two snack bracketing her nap seem to work very well for her, and her growth has been great.
M&T did a similar schedule when they went to one nap a day around 10 months until they gave up naps entirely almost three. It works (and worked) well for us.


Much the same here already I just go with the flow. If they seem like they are tired, I give them a nap or time to rest in their cribs. Wake-up, eating and bedtime are all generally all around the same time...the rest just goes by what they do.