When to drop to one nap

[Temple29]

DS is 14 months old and usually sleeps for an hour in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon. But the last couple of weeks he has been skipping the afternoon nap or taking a really long time to go to sleep for that nap. He’s not upset, just awake and rolling around.

Yesterday he skipped the morning nap and went straight to sleep for the afternoon one and slept for 2.5 hours.

I’m thinking he may need to drop the morning nap but do I just stop putting him down for that one or keep trying for longer? I thought it would be closer to 18 months by the time he would be ready. I’m afraid of dropping it too early.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Sounds exactly like he’s ready to drop the first nap. If you really don’t want him to drop it yet you could try for a while longer but I found life so much easier when they were on just the one nap that we didn’t fight it. May need to bring the nap earlier than down for his second one if you see what I mean.

Thanks for your reply. I’ll try it just one nap tomorrow a bit earlier in the afternoon and hope for the best! It would be nice to only have to think about one nap in terms of making plans.

My daughter is 15m and has recently (last month or so) dropped to 1. Just stopped falling asleep in the afternoon for a few days in a row! The only way she will have 2 naps now is if we are driving back from somewhere late afternoon.

DS is 15 months and dropped his about 2 months ago, he normally naps for an hour around 11.30 or so. He's gradually getting better at sleeping through the night more now so maybe due to him dropping a nap and starting to tire himself out walking