When the boys first started daycare, about a month ago, the boys’ teacher, Cory & I had discussed trying to get them to get down to one nap a day. They were currently taking two but the second nap was starting to become a struggle, so it appeared that they were ready to drop it. The first trial period was a huge FAIL – they were crabby from the time they came home until they went to bed so their teacher went back to giving them two naps a day. What she started to do instead was make their morning nap a little shorter to encourage them to stay up more in the morning and sleep more in the afternoon – which was our ultimate goal. This schedule made them much more bearable in the evenings.
Last week, she started to notice that they weren’t acting as tired in the morning so decided to try out the one nap a day again. This time went much better. They were still in decent moods in the evenings and were sleeping 2-2.5 hours during their afternoon nap. This past weekend, we were able to keep up that same schedule with our tree shopping on Saturday morning and baking/playing with cousins on Sunday morning. They have continued to do well this week with just one nap, and even slept 3 hours on Tuesday afternoon!! The other good thing is that this nap-switch has not seemed to affect their night-time sleep at all.
Even though I hate to give up their morning nap (this when I normally would get my shower in on the weekends, especially if Cory was gone and I was solo), they have definitely shown that they are ready for this change. What big boys! This will also give us a little more freedom to do things on the weekends (I am the type of mother that totally preserves their naptime and will schedule most of our outings around their normal nap schedule – when their sleep suffers, everyone’s sleep suffers!).
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