10 month old naps

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Hi all
Can anyone tell me what sort of naps they give their 10 month olds?
Dd2 has always been a good sleeper; slept through since 15 weeks (with dream feed) and up to very recently had 2 naps in the day of an hour and a half each.

Suddenly she's fussing at both nap times and it can take her an hour to go down, and she's been waking in the night from 2-3 to play!

Today I just put her down for her first nap (noon) and she's gone down with no fuss.

Is it too early for her to have only one nap? I can't remember what dd1 did!

Thanks in advance

If she's struggling to nap twice then she will probably be fine with one nap. If she's going down at 12, that should be fine to get her to bedtime. I always let mine nap when they were tired and I'm pretty sure by 10 months, they were only having afternoon naps.

If your dd wakes in the night, just put her back into her bed, without too much (if any) conversation or eye contact. I once read that in the night, we should be really boring as they soon learn that waking up isn't worth the bother.

10 months is very early (but not unheard of). My dd was exactly the same as yours at 9-10 months, she dropped to one nap at 11 1/2 months, and had been heading that way for a few weeks before.

Basically, as her awake times were getting longer, her naps were getting later and later. We found if we let her have her full 60-90 mins in the morning we were finding that she resisted the second nap. So we started to reduce the first nap gradually, until eventually she only had 20-30 mins. She would then still take a nap of 90 mins in the afternoon.

Gradually the first nap got later and later (11ish) and so, one day, we kept her up, gave her an early lunch at 11:30am and then put her to bed for 12:30pm It's worked so far. (she's 15 month old now)

No sign of the morning nap disappearing here - my son is 10m this weekend and only makes it to around 9.30am before needing his nap (but he is up at 5.30am which I'm obviously ecstatic about).

I have found that night time sleeping is a bit erratic at the moment - sometimes sleeps though without a peep, sometimes waking half a dozen times, but he's teething and got eczema at the mo so I'm putting it down to that.