When to drop nap #2?

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When did you drop your dc's second nap? Asking as today ds slept for THREE hours () this morning, and then refused his afternoon nap. I prepared for a whiny evening but ds was actually fine and happy as usual. Went to sleep 7:30pm, no problem.

Asking as sleep is a big trouble for us atm (refuses to sleep in crib, rocked to sleep, wakes frequently etc), now wondering if this is down to too much sleep during the day! He is 12 months.

DS usual routine is:
6-7am awake
9:30-11am nap
2-3pm nap
7:30 asleep not for the night

Mine all went down to one afternoon nap between 12-16 months.

I find an after lunch nap (awake by 3) is better as morning naps can encourage early morning waking.

The 2 to 1 transition for my oldest began around 14 months but she didn't completely drop the 2nd nap until we enforced no morning nap and just a post-lunch one. That was around 19 months and her night sleep improved after that. She then dropped the afternoon nap just before she turned 3 as she started preschool which doesn't have naptime.

Mine both dropped to 1 nap just before their 1st birthdays.

However they dropped to one lunchtime nap (12-2) rather than napping in the morning.

Around 12 months we went down to one nap at 11am, meant he often slept through lunch but then gradually I oushed it back and now it’s 12-2

Most often there will be a transition period of several months when your LO clearly needs two naps on some days, but one nap on others. On some days you’ll have no idea if it’s a one-nap day or a two-nap day.
My DS went through a ‘one nap is too little, two is too many’ phase, so I started steering him toward a single longer midday nap by pushing the morning nap later by 15 minutes every day or two. My ultimate goal was to start it shortly after lunch. At first we needed to keep the mornings quiet so he could last that long.

I transitioned by about 15 months, by reducing the length of the morning nap down to 15 mins then dropping and having 11.30 lunch and nap for 12.

ds completely went to one nap at 16 months. but it was a gradual process from about 12 months in that he would have just one nap at nursery three days a week but then the other four would want two naps at home. gradually we pushed this so that the number of days at home he was having two naps reduced until he was just on one nap all the time.
we had a similar two nap schedule to you and now tends to have one nap from 11.30 until 2pm as this tends to fit in which his nursery schedule too. nursery do lunch at 11am although we will quite often do a mid morning snack and then late lunch when he wakes at 2pm.
good luck