Do I drop to 1 nap yet?

1-2 years old

This is not the best time for LO to be dropping to one nap but I’m starting to see signs. Although she also has a molar coming in so I’m not sure if it’s that BUT it’s starting to take longer for her to fall asleep.

With the holidays and holiday travel coming up, I would really rather wait until after to transition to 1 nap.

Can I adjust our 2 nap schedule to help with holding onto it a bit longer?

Current schedule is 6:30am wake. Nap 1: 9:30-10:30am Nap 2: 2:15-3:15 pm Bedtime 7:45pm

I cap naps at 2 hours. 1 hour each. She never wakes up on her own so we always go in and wake her.

She isn’t having split nights, but woke up once around midnight this week and made noise but went back to sleep. Could’ve just been the new molar though since that’s the day I noticed it as well.

She just occasionally has a hard time falling asleep. For example: took her 30 mins to fall asleep today for nap 2. Put her in the crib at 2:10, but she didn’t sleep until 2:40.

Over the last couple weeks, she had a hard time falling asleep for naps maybe 3-4 times. But today’s was the longest delay. The other times have only been about a 10-15 mins delay.

She doesn’t have a hard time with bedtime.

Thank you for any and all suggestions! I just hope to hold onto two naps until the end of the year to get through our travels

Edit to add: LO is 13.5 mo Second edit: turns out she was awake for that long because she decided to poop after we put her down and now I feel like crap because she had to try to sleep like that. Ugh

Posted Dec 7, 2025, 10:45 PM UTC · edited

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