13 Month Old Won't Nap! - Houston,TX

I think all kids go through periods where they don't sleep as well as they do other times. My thought is that she is trying to give up the morning nap and that is changing her routine, so it is interrupting her afternoon nap. I would just give up the morning nap entirely and run her hard during the day so that she will be really tired for the afternoon nap. Try to put her down around 1-1:30pm or when you see her tired cues starting (if you wait to long, she'll be overtired and won't sleep well). Once you get into this new routine, I bet she will start sleeping longer during her nap again. Good luck!

You are in the horrible transition between 2 naps a day and 1 nap a day. This is normal and will fix itself...you might be able to help her.

It might be that waiting until noon for that first nap is just too long a wait and she is missing her "sleepy" window.

You might try an earlier nap time when she doesn't nap in the morning. Then as she adjusts to the one nap...start pushing nap time back 15 minutes or so every other day until you have it where you want it and she is still napping well.

It is tough when you have your "routine" then they change and you have to start trying new ones until it works out.
HUGS!!

Oh and do you give her 5 to 10 minutes to resettle when she wakes up from the nap early...actually watch a clock because sometimes they will drift back off after a few minutes if you leave them alone to do it. Hugs again!!

Could be she is sleeping too long at night.. 6:00pm to 5:30 am? That is almost 12 hours all at one stretch.. Transition her bedtime to maybe 7:30pm to 5:30am or 6:00am.

Then you will be able to ease her into a 12:30 or 1:00 nap...

Also remember, she is needing less sleep as she gets older and there are so many exciting things going on during the day! She is more aware of daylight, so at lunch, you may want to turn off the TV's, phone and loud music. Begin speaking softer to her during this time.

In her room, cool it down and make it darker in there with black out shades or hang a blanket..

It will take a few days to get her sleep scooted into a new schedule, but it will work great.

our son sleeps with a white noise on even durring naps. passing cars, birds, kids playing outside durring nap seems to disturb him. so we turn on the wite noise. good luck. oh and i would only allow one nap. i agree with laurie ten hours is enough at night.