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Hi Aditi,
It’s great to hear that you’re already implementing my suggestions and that you’ve found an ideal wake-up time and bedtime for your little one!
Based on what you’ve shared, I do think she may be ready to transition to four naps a day. To make this shift smoothly, I recommend gradually stretching her wake windows so that her last nap doesn’t end too early, leaving her overtired before bedtime.
Right now, it looks like her wake windows are around 40 minutes to an hour. Over the next few days, you could see how she tolerates being awake for 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes at a time.
If she adjusts well, her schedule might start to look like this:
- Nap 1: 8:30 AM for 1 hour, 40 minutes (gradually shifting closer to 9 AM in the coming weeks)
- Nap 2: 11:20 AM for 1 hour
- Nap 3: 1:40 PM for 40 minutes
- Nap 4: 3:30 PM for 40 minutes
With this schedule, she’d wake up around 4:10 PM, which is still a long stretch before her 6:30 PM bedtime. Until she’s fully adjusted to longer wake windows, you may need to move bedtime slightly earlier to help her make it through to bedtime without becoming overtired.
That said, if you feel like transitioning to four naps is too challenging right now, it’s completely okay to keep a fifth nap—especially as a contact nap—until she’s ready for longer wake windows.
I hope this helps,
Emma