doesn't want a daytime nap! grrr

[starlover]

ds (9 months) has decided that he doesn't need 2 daytime naps any more.
this causes several problems

if he has a nap in the morning then he is AWFUL by about 4pm
if he doesn't have it until the afternoon he is a nightmare by 12pm (lunchtime!!!)

he normally wants a sleep at about 10/10.30 am and was having one at around half 2 as well

now he isn't interested in the half 2 one at all. He will fall asleep having his milk but the moment i put him down he is wide awake and he just plays in his cot!
I can leave him in there for half an hour in the dark and he just won't sleep! lol

do most babies give up the second nap at this age or is he jhust being "difficult" lol?

i would have thought 9 months was a little early to drop 2nd nap but not unheard of!

Jess went through a stage at about 10 months of only having once sleep, but soon went back to 2.

She's 15 months now and has one long sleep at lunchtime (about 2 hours)

dd2 only had one nap at this age. used to drive me mad.

ooh maybe he will start having it again!

i wouldn't mind if he wasn't so extraordinarily grumpy without it!

How long does he sleep at 10.30 ? Perhaps limit it a bit, give him lunch and a play, then put him down again at 2.30. Sounds like he still needs it.

he sleeps for about an hour and a half

My DD at 9 months never had 2 naps, she's had one (if I'm lucky) since about 5 months!

starlover, - i am having the exact same problem.....in fact i could have wrote your thread about my DD who is also 9mo. since she has point blank refused to go to sleep for her afternoon nap (and been a nightmare from 4pm because she is soooo tired.......), since yesterday i put her down as normal for her 10 am nap, but instead of letting her sleep for her normal 1and half to 2 hours, instead i banged around upstairs putting things away etc etc after only 50 mins to wake her up...then as nomral its din at 12 ish,playtime until 2 ish and then mid afternoon snack (v warm bottle to encourage the z's ) and hey presto she fall asleep again on bottle and lets me put her down and had another hour and a halfs nap.....this has worked for me as i too had considered trying to drop one her naps, but she just wouldnt manage a whole day on only one nap.....she is still at the awkward in between stage!

HTH