Nightmare naps - 10 month old

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My DD is not far off being 11 months, she sleeps amazing at night 11/12 hours usually 7-7 ish. The naps in the day are becoming a nightmare, she will scream and get herself worked up but up until about 2 weeks ago was perfectly fine at napping. DD is teething and has had a slight cold but we have been giving her calpol etc and I don’t know wether this has been the cause and effecting her naps for 2 weeks as she will go down just fine on the night time.
I am just looking for some advice or similar experience as she’s getting so worked up and upset when it’s nap time. We use the huckleberry app for wake time too.

My DD is 12 months but had a bout of teething and a cold a few weeks ago and fought every nap but was fine at bedtime too. It only lasted a few weeks and she’s now back to napping twice a day happily!

My DD is 18 months and has had patches of god awful naps (or not napping). We have think it’s usually either teething or before a cognitive leap. Is she crawling? It always lasted a few weeks for us but then settled back. I would say persist in trying to put her down, eventually she will nap again.

Biggest most helpful thing you can do is try not to get stressed about it (easier said than done I know). She will nap again.

If she’s really getting shattered after a few days of non-napping I would take her out in the car or pushchair at naptime to get her to have a sleep.

That’s so great she sleeps so well at night!

I liked the adage Night time sleep is forever, naps are not!

How many naps is she having? Both of mine dropped the morning nap at this age and then would go down for a long lunch time sleep between 11am and 12, depending on how tired they were.

Hi @itshappened she currently has 2 naps one at usually about 10-11 and the next at about 2:30-3:30. Maybe this is the problem. How would you go about seeing if my DD should drop this nap. At the minute I feel so awful. Had the same this morning she just hysterically cries and cries and I’ve done everything to try and make it easier for her. DD tries rolling over and crawling in cot which is making her more tired and I can see she’s tired too so I keep rolling her back and she gets more and more frustrated. Was over an hour and half until she went to sleep this morning 😩

In that case I would push her nap to start at midday, shouldn't be too much of a stretch based on her current schedule. This nap should then be a lovely long sleep of 2 hours. Sometimes mine did 3 hours when super tired! Then keep her awake until her time. You may need to bring bedtime forwards a bit to around 6/6:30 initially, depending on how tired she seems. But it will level out to around 7pm within a few weeks.

DS had dropped to one nap around that age. He started doing an hour and a half / 2 hours around 1030/11 ish in the morning.

Perhaps you could try one longer sleep around 11am and see if that works.

He always had an early bedtime as he slept early - always around 6/615 however now he's pushing back to 645/7 ish but he still wants to sleep at 11 ish.

You could try what we did at that age.

Up at seven for two hours then short nap, about 50 minutes. Then up for three hours and long nap, then up for four hours then bed. Read about it on here, the 2–3–4 routine it was called. It worked well for us.

Thankyou so much everyone for the replies. @itshappened how did you work lunch time/bottle times around this?

I used to do a mid morning bottle, followed by an early lunch, nap, then a bottle as soon as they woke up from the long nap at 2pm.

Another whose wee one dropped to one nap around that age (or wanted to; we tried to keep going with two naps for a little longer – learn from our mistakes!). For us, her sleep was much better within days of making the switch, and I've heard others say the same, so I think you'll know quite quickly.

I also did an early lunch, but if she was clearly too tired to eat properly, I'd put her down and then offer lunch again when she woke. You can also gradually work the nap a little bit later so that it fits around lunch better.