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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]sleep begets sleep...do not cap daytime sleep to encourage nighttime sleep. It's actually the opposite - early bedtime to encourage sleeping later, keeping daytime naps to encourage night time sleeping. Waking kids up from naps is just going to make them lousy sleeping.[/quote]

This isn’t a universal truth. That adage is way over used. Look at sleep averages for 1-2 year olds. It’s 11-14 hours total in a day. Meaning napping for 3 hours with 2 naps, your kid has to be on the high end of average to still need 11 hours overnight on top of that (like the OP is hoping to shift toward). She already has a very reasonable bedtime of 7-730.

I capped my DS’s naps starting around 10 months when he started rising earlier in the morning, and I needed to add some more overnight sleep pressure but he wasn’t ready for 1 nap yet. Basically went from 3 hours of naps to 2 hours of naps over the course of 2-3 months before he was ready to drop to one midday nap (at which point I didn’t cap sleep at all). And guess what? He’s remained an amazing sleeper. I can count on one hand the number of times he’s woken up overnight or before 6:30am since we sleep trained at 6 months, and he’s now 2. And he takes a 2-2.5 hour nap everyday. [/quote]

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