Dropped a nap but still tired… what do your 16 mo schedules look like?

Question

My daughter is tired mid afternoon but it’s too late for a nap. What do I do? Here’s her current schedule:
Wake 7 am
Tired by 11am
Nap 11-12-30
Big wake window (gets tired around 330/4, but I try to kept her up or just do quiet time in the nursery)
Bedtime 7 ish 
She won’t really nap earlier than 11. Suggestions?

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When my daughter dropped from 2 naps to 1, we really tried to push back her nap to after lunch (12-2), so if she slept 7pm-7am, both of her wake windows were 5 hrs long.

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Wake between 7-8am
Nap 11am (1.5-2hrs)
Bedtime between 6:30-7:30. 
Most days she is tired around 3/4. Its definitely an adjustment when dropping down to one nap.

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My son is 14 months and is an early waker no matter when bedtime is. So we try to stay awake from 6 am to around 11:30 or noon and he takes a decent nap then we stay up til 7 pm.

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The transition from snack/nap/late lunch to early lunch/nap/mid afternoon snack can take a couple weeks for some littles. Totally normal. The food schedule is your friend! 
Definitely do an early lunch right at 11 to help delay his nap and stretch the morning wake window. Then a bit of play and nap around noon or 12:30. And he may start napping longer too!
It’ll be that schedule for a long time until gradually it begins to shift little by little as they become more flexible.
Between 1.5-4 years old the afternoon nap slowly creeps from noon to 12:30 to 1 to 1:30 until your little on eventually naps around 2:30/3 and wakes around 4:30/5 and that signals they don’t need a nap anymore.
But for possibly the next year or so you’ll be set in the early lunch midday start to nap routine before that creep forward starts.

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Push the morning nap out bit by bit until you get to 12. You could move bed time slightly earlier also just for the transition time. They’ll get less and less tired as they grow but it’s a lot when they’ve just moved from 2 to 1 nap

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Try to push the forward nap 1 hour. So do like 12-2/230

Dropped a nap but still tired… what do your 16 mo schedules look like?

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