11 months ds - how much sleep "should" he be getting?

[Scotlian]

Just wondering.. My DS is almost 11 months, rarely sleeps more than 10 hours at night no matter how early/late his betdime is, and never has more than 2 hours sleep in the day split into 1 morning 1 pm nap.

Is this average? Less than average? Wish he slept more at night but nothing we can do seems to change it. And I think he's still a bit wee to drop the morning nap, no?

Thanks in advance

For what it's worth, I think if you are giving him all the right opportunities for sleep (as I'm sure you are) and he just won't sleep more than 10 hours a night, that's probably what he 'should' be getting. He'll probably sleep more when he's a bit older and running around more etc.
2 hours napping in the day sounds fine too - I don't think you need to worry!

For your statistics, though, mine slept about 11 hours a night from c. 6 months, occasionally 12 hours. With about 2 hour naps in the morning too. But they're all different!

I agree with mamafelix - babies are good at getting the amount of sleep they need so as long as he's getting the opportunity he's fine!

my 11 month old DS sleeps for 11 hours at night (used to be 12 hours up until a month ago), has 40 minutes in the morning and usually only 40 minutes after lunch.

i'd love for him to have a longer nap at lunchtime but he just won't do it.

Thanks all. This is my first baby and am slowly learning not to trust the "shoulds" of baby books and ask other mums instead! Guess my boy just needs less sleep than I'd like - sympathise with you there country lover - ach well...

If my DD had half of that amount of sleep at that age I would have thought I had won the lottery !

If it helps my DS (age 8 months) rarely has more than half an hour morning and afternoon.

dd is 11 months and sleeps approx 12 hours* at night and just has one nap in the afternoon of about 1.5 hours. I think it is more important how he seems - if he isn't getting grumpy too early before bedime then he's probably ok! I'm a fisrt timer as well and think it's normal to worry about everthing!

(*I should qualify this by saying she is teething at present so the 12 hours is interspersed by bouts of screaming!)

Wow I suddenly feel lucky!

Agree HappyCamper that with second/subsequent babies we'd probably worry less about everything - and as a result the babies would probably be more chilled out wee people too.

Next question: when "should" babies drop from 2 naps to 1 then? Seems like from 11 months onwards? Oh I am so clueless...

Hi Scotlian, my DD is 12.5 months and still has 2 daytime naps, each of about an hour but sometimes longer. But my friend's DD who is the same age is down to one nap and sometimes only 45 mins. So I think it varies enormously but that for most babies it happens sometime between 12-15 months. Good luck, it sounds like you're doing great. You would know about it if your LO was overtired, believe me!

Ps. If you want to see from the results of scientific studies what the "average" baby does in terms of sleep I recommend Dr Marc Weissbluth Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child. I don't necessarily agree with all his methods but he's very good on how much sleep to expect at what age. Bit of a heavy read though - not many pictures!

Will have a look... thanks for your encouragement too, sometimes this whole parenting lark is way out of my depth...

Oh tell me about it! I didn't mean to imply that I knew what I was doing and actually since I posted DD has had a day where she only napped once I've suffered from terrible anxiety since DD was born but am just starting to relax a bit and taking some comfort from the fact we have made it through a year and she seems to have survived and still has all the right bits in all the right places