When did your babies drop the morning nap?

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Just as the title says really. When did the morning nap go? I have a 9 month old and morning nap is becomming increasingly difficult. I think 9 months is far too early to drop the nap though. When did it happen for your little ones?

11 months i think. What are their asleep/awake times?

We went from three to two to one nap very quickly. The first to go was the morning nap at about 9/10 months and we brought forward the lunchtime nap and afternoon nap. The afternoon nap went at 11 months (when we were on holiday...joy) and he's been reliable at one nap ever since (now 17 months) although that's getting shorter and shorter. When it got to the stage of me spending longer trying to get him to sleep than he was actually sleeping for, I decided it wasn't worth it.

Dropped to two naps about 9/10 months.
Dropped to one nap at 15 months.
Dropped all naps 2.5 years.

Mine dropped to 1 nap at 11 months
No naps around 2ish

DD was probably ready for 1 nap at around 10 months, but I didn't realise until 11 months.
Still happy on just the one at 16 months. Long may it continue.

Thanks for replying everyone. I think im going to ignore his normal routine today and see what happens. Honestly, ive found naps one of the worst things!

Mine had two naps until she was 15 months but I cut the morning nap short (no longer than 40 minutes or until 10am whichever came first). It got shorter and shorter until I just dropped it altogether and brought her afternoon nap forward (back?).

When I did this her afternoon nap extended from 1.5 to 2.5 hours, which is just heavenly!

DS's daily routine for sleep has looked like this for ages

0600 - wake up
0830/9 - nap for 1hr
1300 - nap for 1.5hrs
1600 - mini 10min cat nap during a walk to get him through
1830 - bedtime

He's currently sat happily rattling a musical egg though. No sign of needing that nap just yet!

16 month old dropped morning nap couple of weeks ago and just going through the adjusting phase of the afternoon nap

OP I'm in a similar situation!
DD is nearly 9 months and she's fighting her morning naps . She wakes up between 0600-0630 and if she doesn't sleep in the morning ( happened a few times) then she'll sleep usually 1230-1400 and then bed at 1800/1830 . I feel she's quite young to drop to one nap but I guess I can't force her. She dropped her 3rd nap about 6 months so I guess she just doesn't need as much daytime sleep. My elder DD only dropped her 3rd nap at 9 months and down to 1 nap at 16 months so I'm not used to this!

I used to have my GS one day a week and even when he was over two I would put him in his cot after lunch and say ‘show me how you go to sleep’ and he would have a nap, which gave me a chance to have a short rest. Then I discovered that no one else had managed to get him to have a nap or even stay in his cot for over 6 months but no one had told me.

So he has gone for his nap now. I defo think he's stretching his awake window right now. Thinking about it, the little cat nap at the end of the day will probably be the first to go rather than the 1st nap.

Its so difficult isnt it?! They're forever changing their routines and we're forever playing catch up! Thats what it feels like to me, anyway!

The cat nap will almost certainly be the first to go. My baby dropped the cat nap at around 8/9 months.

You'll probably find a good rhythm with two naps and stay like that for a while. Then the wonderful world of one long nap beckons!

My little one had 3 naps and dropped his evening cat nap around 6 months and dropped his second nap around 11 months. He now only has 1 large 2 hour nap in the afternoon at 22 months.

11 months here and we do one nap if it’s long enough, two naps if the morning one is short/rubbish. I long for a consistent routine!

The smart advice is not before 18m to be honest. They need 3hrs daily sleep for brain development. Dropping the nap makes them grumpy, aggressive and all those things we complain about with 2yo.

I'd try what I was told - morning nap for 15/20mins, than afternoon longer nap (2 hours at least).

It's also the awake times that matter, should be not longer than 3 hours at 9m.

Sorry to restart an old thread… fascinated by this. I’ve just started back at work so my little one is with MIL twice a week and nursery twice a week. His overnight sleep has slowly started to improve and we’ve deduced that actually (despite his desire to take two gloriously long naps everyday when he’s with me) he does much better overnight if it’s limited to about 2/2.5 hours sleep max a day.

I’ve been splitting this evenly morning and afternoon to work with wake windows. He wakes 2/3 times a night but it’s managable. Nursery do two shorter naps but he seems to cope pretty well aslong as I bring bedtime earlier. MIL tried him on just one long lunchtime nap this week (12.30-2) as they were out and about in the morning and he wouldn’t go down until they got home……… I was having kittens but he slept straight through the night from 7-5am-bottle-back down until 6.30 for first time EVER. Fluke? Is she on to something? Seems like a bloody long time for a 10.5 month old to be awake in the morning. (She did say he started to get grumpy at 11.30/12)

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Sorry that was supposed to say 12.30-3 - he slept for 2.5 hours after lunch on one nap x he had been awake since 6.45 YIKES