10 month old dropping morning nap?

[MamaM76]

He is refusing at the moment. He rolls around and talks to himself in a cot in a darkened room on his own. When he wakes up at 7am, he can sleep for 1h at 10:30 then afternoon nap around 2pm for 1.5h. When he wakes at 7:30, refuses his morning nap, but gets sleepy around 12. This is a problem because I have to pick up my first one from the nursery, and he falls asleep in a pram then I have to shift him to the cot which wakes him up etc.
He is 50th percentile baby so average sized and eats well.
Any thought? Is it ok to shift to 1 nap a day? I feel it's a bit early...

I guess play it by ear, it sounds as if he is not yet settled into his own timetable. DS could be one of the minority that go down to one nap a day before his 1st birthday, at present it still depends on his waking time. My rule of thumb would be, does he get tetchy or irritable, do you notice him getting cranky three to four hours after waking up? If he stays good-natured with one nap and resists another he can probably cope. If he hasn't dropped off within 30 minutes of you putting him down for a snooze and then only relents and naps for a short time he doesn't sound in desperate need of that nap right then. Babies don't read rulebooks so of course every one is different. Mine would start rubbing their eyes or fussing. If they switched to a pre-lunch kip I could then move bedtime forward. By the time they were toddling they fought sleep even when shattered so consider this the honeymoon period.

Why not wake him at 7 each morning if its better for you that he has and early nap? I've always woken DD at 8am (if she's not already awake!!!) to keep us in a routine that works for us.

You both got a point here.
He can stay up for 3.5h and after that he does get sleepy. However when he has a long morning nap, he is beginning to wake up after around45 minutes, which makes him too tired for the rest of the day. I'll give it a go at cutting his morning nap short and see if his afternoon nap improves.