Too early to drop the morning nap?

[stowsettler]

Hello, DD is 10.5mo and has always been a pretty good sleeper, barring the odd hiccup along the way.

Just recently, however, she's been waking really early, around 5-6am. It's clear that she's still really tired but just will not go back down. This makes for a truly horrendous few hours until her morning nap at around 9am.

She goes down happily at 7pm and eats like a horse (plus 3 x 6oz bottles a day). I'm starting to suspect that we need to drop the morning nap and try and push on through to around noon for a longer nap - say, two hours (currently she has about 1-1.5hours at around 1pm).

But she still seems very young to me to be having just the one nap. Has anyone else had this with a tiny?

TIA

DD dropped her morning nap around 12 mo, it had got later and later and was then kind of interfering in the afternoon nap, so we just cut it shorter and shorter then just stopped doing it. She then carried on having one really good (and deep!) sleep (1.5 -2.5 hrs) until just a couple of months ago - at about 2.8.

Was liberating getting rid of the morning sleep, less so the main after lunch one, as we quite liked our hour of feet up and rest too .

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My DS dropped his morning nap by 11 months as he just didn't want it. It did mean we had a phase of early lunches so that he could have a nap at midday but that did eventually push out to nearer 1pm after a few weeks of falling asleep in his lunch!

Thanks all. I quite like the idea of reducing it slowly, rather than going cold turkey. I suspect she's definitely getting ready to drop it though, but by reducing gradually we can take account of the fact that it may be a phase. I doubt it though - she's in such a rush to do everything I think she'd like to be awake 24 hours!

Am really hoping that the last nap stays for a while though...

My dd had just one nap from 11am till about 1.30 from maybe 8 months till 13 months when she changed it to after lunch. Worked well for us x

Dd dropped her morning nap at about 11 months as she was taking ages to go down for her main nap. At first she needed the one remaining nap earlier eg 11am (with either a very early lunch or a split lunch before/after nap.) it worked really well and she normally has at least 2 hrs from 12-2 (she's 16mo now). She was a bit tired mid morning at first but much better after a couple of weeks.

I thought this about my DS at 10 months old, he moved his 9am nap to 10am and then just didn't seem to want to sleep at all on a morning. I stopped trying tbh as it was awful watching his fight with me and sleep. At 12 months he fell back into the routine again, had about 30 mins at 10am and then an hour in the afternoon. Now he's almost 14months he's hit and miss with his morning nap, if he misses it then he'll sleep for up to 2 hours on an afternoon but if not he just has 2 short naps neither of which are without a fight, it's like he enjoys the challenge. He sleeps 7 til 7 and has since about 3 months. Nothing wrong with getting rid of the nap if it works, anything that doesn't interfere with his long stretch at night I consider to 'work'!

Well, last night we gave her a ginormous tea (and fair play she can put it away) in the hope that this may keep her in sleepyland for a bit longer.
She went down 7am as usual and this morning - hallelujah! Didn't wake until 6.25am. This is fine by me as ideally she needs to be up by 6.30am during the week. It meant I had time to get up and walk the dogs before getting her up and my morning was nice and relaxed.
WRT the morning nap - I think we will see if the massive tea solution works for a while because when she does go down, morning and afternoon, she has taken to sleeping for at least an hour now (used to be no more than about 40mins). As you say Pans, as long as it doesn't interfere with the night sleep it's fine with me!

Oops of course she went down at 7pm.