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@tavott 1.5 hour nap is the sweet spot for us at 27 months. BUT we leave him in the crib for 2 hours. And he kind of chills and rolls around. Sometimes even though he doesn’t need more sleep, he just needs less stimulation and a shorter day. He sleeps 7:30-7AM and same thing. If he’s up at 6:30...

@finleyk My understanding is that you want to factor in total wake time and also “sleep pressure”. One theory is that sleep pressure builds up when babies are awake and then naps relieve that pressure, then it builds again before bedtime. You need enough sleep pressure but not too much. He might...

@finleyk Ah okay, fair enough. I wonder what would happen if you did an earlier bedtime while also trying to stretch out that first wake window.

@finleyk 6-7 hours before bed is a long time at that age. Your little one is on the earlier side to be at one nap as well. Can you stretch that first wake window a bit to even out the wake windows? Otherwise have you thought about going back to two naps?

@audreyjk169 Did you have any luck with the transition?

@audreyjk169 Do you have a bedtime routine? When we moved baby from sleeping with me to the nursery we started by doing the first 1/3 of the bedtime routine in the nursery for 3 days, then 2/3 and then the whole bedtime routine. This seemed to work well and baby started seeing that room as a...

@leticia1995 This was me only in the winter when it was too cold to go outside. My husband was also in school on the weekends and worked during the week. It’s rough. I did a few “coffee dates” with baby where I grabbed a spot by the window and brought his beverage of choice. We parked a bit...