10 month old becoming hard to nap during day

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My 10 month old has started to resist naps during the day.
Wakes up at 8am - usually I then would have been able to put down for 1st nap around 10am and this would have lasted 1.5hours.
Then 2nd nap always around 3pm for an hour, bed at 8pm and sleeping mostly through the night, perhaps waking once but resettling quickly.

It was working so well lol but the past few days it’s all went up the left. Fighting both naps like mad until eventually they happen about 45mins later than usual, and don’t last as long either - about 30mins, less than an hour. I always try to have baby awake by 4pm so that bedtime isn’t a nightmare.
Should add she can self soothe to sleep fine without usually needing me to be there but at the moment literally will lie there awake fighting it!
I’ve tried pram and car but makes no difference. These used to always guarantee sleep! Does this mean her “wake windows” are getting longer now? If so, how do we still fit 2 naps into our day and still achieve bed at 8pm? Or maybe starting to get ready to drop a nap, seems very young for that though. Advice from more experienced Mums needed please 😊

Solidarity, my ten month old had one 8 minute nap today 😬

That first wake window is pretty short, only 2 hrs. I would try doing the morning nap a bit later.

Babies have a massive variation though in timings and length of naps. My DS had 2 (short) naps until 16 months but I know a lot of babies drop to 1 nap much earlier.

This is around the age they might transition to one nap per day.

Two hours is a small wake window for a 10 month old. I'd try putting her down at 10:30 for a quick nap, up at 11am. Then try 2pm - 3:30/4pm or 2:30-4pm.

Alternatively, I'd get her up an hour earlier and stick with the 10am nap, but keep it short, about 30 mins. Then 1:30pm-3:30pm for an afternoon nap. Eventually the short morning one will go and you're left with one good, long middle of the day nap.

Thanks everyone some great tips here to try 😊 will try getting her up earlier and shortening the morning nap first.

@bakewellbride ouch, you have my sympathies there. Hoping your little one gets back on track with sleep too!

One nap at 10 months isn't impossible, but yes it is early

Rather than jump straight to it, how about a power nap only in the morning? Then a longer nap later on.

I think at 10 mo mine was doing only 10 or 15 min before I woke him up - otherwise after lunch nap would just go south every time

Think it’s time for me to say goodbye to the lovely long morning nap where I’d have had a leisurely shower we had a good run!

I guess the thing with naps is that 20 people will give 20 different answers… but personally I’d never wake a sleeping baby up in the morning!

Enjoy the later mornings while it lasts because everything is a phase and you might get a phase of early morning waking next… my little darling has decided 5.30 is wake up time recently after a year of 6.30/7

i think you’re putting him down to soon for his first nap

forget about wake windows and all that rubbish, just follow your babies cues. When he’s tired pop him down for a nap.

also it was around that age my son went from 2 naps to 1 big one and has done ever since. He has a 2.5 hour nap around lunch time. They’re all so different

I had the same at the same age and was certain my daughter was an early transitioner to 1 nap. I read somewhere, I'm sure it was Mumsnet, a few people saying it's common to drop to 1 nap for a couple weeks at this age before then needing 2 again and that's what happened with us. She suddenly needed more sleep than ever for a period of time - couldn't stay awake more than 2hrs in the morning and naps were longer - right before she suddennly grew out of her clothes.
She then dropped her 2nd nap just as suddennly with no difficulties at 13months.

By 10 months, anything more than 30 minutes in the morning and DS wouldn’t nap again in the afternoon. Id cut that morning nap right back and maybe make it a bit later, before dropping it entirely.