DD is almost 7 months and has been a bit of a hopeless napper since birth. Naps have always been a problem but just recently - in the past 3 weeks - she suddenly seemed to 'get it'. She was having 2 naps a day...she seemed to alternate on whether the long was in the morning or afternoon but she'd do one nap of about 45-1 hour and a longer one of 2 hours. What a glorious 3 weeks they were!
But now for the past 3 or 4 days she's started resisting her first nap again. She had been napping from about 9.15ish (in the pram...she'd fall asleep on the walk back from nursery drop-off for DS and would then stay asleep at home for about an hour usually, sometimes longer) but now she's stopped doing it. So I've been letting her play for a little while when we get home, then give her a small milk feed and then try to get her down again at about 9.45ish and she resists. She looks tired to me (she's a funny one who doesn't seem to yawn EVER so it's difficult to tell sometimes but her eyes look red and tired) but she doesn't seem that interested. She eventually fell asleep just after 11am this morning. She woke up this morning at 6am.
So I'm starting to think she wants to drop that first nap?? Does that sound ridiculous for a 7mo? I know all babies are different blah, blah, blah, but my friend's baby who is 6 weeks older still has 3 naps a day so it seems drastic to be considering dropping my DD down to 1 nap a day! And my DS didn't drop to 1 nap a day till he was 18 months...almost a year older than DD.
Any suggestions? Do you think it sounds like she wants to drop that nap? Or should I try something different?