Day sleeps for 16 month old... advice please???

[[M]umma[M]ia]

Try feeding her lunch a little earlier (say 11am?) and then when she gets up give her some afternoon tea. I wouldnt try and go out too much until she gets used to it. In the car at 11:15am she is bound to fall asleep. Try and make sure if you go out that you are home by 10:30ish so she can have an early lunch.

My DD cut out her day sleep at 12 months and its just about sitting back and working out your own child again as you did when you worked out when to put her down for her 2 sleeps.

It will be hard as he body is used to sleeping twice during the day. Go for more chilled out activities until her body gets used to it.

Dont be suprised if she goes back to 2 sleeps when shes sick

[Miss.B]

Oh my, it seems like my DS has had just one sleep a day since he was born! lol. For a long time I tried to get him to have the two sleeps as he would be rubbing his eyes red raw around 4-5 pm if he had the one nap anywhere between 10 and 11 that would only last an hour to an hour and a half. A couple of times I let him fall asleep around 5 pm but then he wouldn't go to bed at a reasonable time and everyone was still awake at 9 pm
I wrote a post not too long ago asking how I could encourage DS to at least sleep longer that the hour or hour and a half he's been sleeping for what seems like eternity, and the lovely ladies said to offer him an early lunch and tire him out a bit more in the mornings. It worked the first time I've attempted it, as he slept for 2 hours. Hooray!!!! The following days he went back to 1 -1.5 hours. The other thing is that if I push him out a bit too much in the mornings, he gets overtirred and only sleeps for an hour and then it's like 12.30 pm and a whole afternoon of not sleeping!!! I am definitely not looking to him dropping his sleep altogether.
GL hun, I hope the transition is easy on your DD. It sounds like you're already making the steps in the right direction!

[Fleur]

Liek Kiwimummy, we did one sleep one day and two the next. Or rather alternating as we needed. If she was up early, it would be a 2-sleep day, if she slept in & we stayed home all morning, a one sleep day. She ended up making the switch to one sleep eventually on her own, but our transition phase was a couple of months.

[Amber4]

Thanks everyone... as always the BB community is such a wellspring of advice and experience.

Putting together all of your suggestions it seems like my take-home message should be transition her more gently, expect it to take some time (I can't believe after parenting a baby/ early toddler I forgot that one! ) and don't push ourselves too much while we're doing that. Today I've put some of your ideas into practice.. we did a quick trip of errands at 9am, home by 10 and after some morning tea popped her down for a nap... she went to sleep without a whisper. I also appreciate the ideas about being led by her needs just as I have days when I'm more tired than others.

Can I just add at this point that even with this developmental change in her, it's really hit home just how fast they grow up. I'm happy and excited for her that she's evolving but grieving too that this is one more sign my little 'baby' is a baby no longer No doubt I'm not alone in that sentiment.

[Fleur]

Can I just add at this point that even with this developmental change in her, it's really hit home just how fast they grow up. I'm happy and excited for her that she's evolving but grieving too that this is one more sign my little 'baby' is a baby no longer No doubt I'm not alone in that sentiment.

No, you're certainly not alone there