The Nap Transition v2.1
The transition from two to one naps officially began today. After two recent days of Forest refusing to take an afternoon nap and yesterday both boys didn’t go down until 3:00 (usually it’s at 2) and then for only 30 minutes, I figured I’d see just how long I could keep them up this morning. And here we are at just a bit before 11 and I just put them down. It went super well and they did awesome by being constantly distracted and kept playing. Then we had an earlier lunch, instead of 11-11:30, lunch was at 10:30.
I have to keep reminding myself that this is a transition. Therefor tomorrow they might both become so fussy at 10:00 that I have to put them down for their morning nap and just figure out the rest as we go along. I don’t do well in transition. I like to know what to expect. Some would call that a control issue but really it’s not that I want to be in control, I just want to know what to expect. If you are into Jung’s enneagrams, this would be the “J” side of my personality. So I’m mentally preparing myself for the next few weeks, possibly even a month from what I’ve heard, of not knowing what to expect. But what helps me is to try and guide things. And with twins, guiding sure as heck helps.
My goal is to make 11 AM the new nap time and hopefully they will sleep a good 3 hour nap and make it just fine onto their normal nightly bedtime. If I find that the time between nap wake up and bedtime is too long for them, we’ll have to experiment with moving the nap back to noon and in the mean time perhaps put them to bed a little earlier.
In other news, the boys are sleeping from 8 PM (we put them down at about 7:45 but it takes them a bit to settle in) to 5:00 AM without a peep. Sometimes even until 5:30. After a bottle they go back to sleep until 6:30ish. Yes, new parents, it does get better and one year seems to have been our lucky spot with Forest. Logan’s been there for months, but with twins it doesn’t count unless they are both there.
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sounds good, dawn. i am in the same school with the expectation thing. i definitely do not feel great in transition, but then i remember that they do not really feel great either. hope it continues to go well. smiles.