Please tell me about your dc transitioning to one nap

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That is it really. Dd is about to turn one and has 2 naps a day, apart from yesterday when she missed her morning nap, but was too tired later in the day. I would love to know ages when they changed to one nap, and how you new it was time to do it.
Thanks all.

20m and we're only just properly transitioning to one nap! Though I suspect we're a bit late. She wants one awkwardly over what would be her lunchtime, so we're struggling to get her to hold on until after lunch but it's slowly working itself through. If your DD missed her morning nap, what time did she have her afternoon nap?

I wouldn't push dropping a nap. If you miss one because you're doing something that's fine. Is it messing up her going to sleep at night at all?

No it is all fine at the moment, and I don't want to go to one nap as I love the 9am nap, that is shower, breakfast and put the washing on time! She only missed her morning nap as she slept till 6.45 (usually a 5am riser) so wasn't keen on a morning nap. Went straight after lunch and was too tired at bedtime though!

16 months here and I think he is trying to drop to one nap. He went thru a stage around 11 months of trying to drop one but we persuaded him he still needs it! google says 18 months is the "right" time to move to 1 nap

My dd is 19mo and has been reliably on one nap for about six weeks. It was bit awkward at first, she was stretching the time between her first and second naps, and she was trying to nod off at 5pm for a bit which was no use. It's pretty good now though, 2 hours of peace at roughly 1pm!

DC1 was about 15 months when he dropped his morning nap, DC2 dropped her morning nap before 12 months and DC3 has dropped her morning nap at about 12 months too.

I think it really makes a difference if you have older children to get out and about for activities, school, nursery etc. The morning nap becomes a bit of a hassle IME. I was keen to drop it for DC2 and 3. DC3 has an active morning and then naps from 12.15/12.30 ish until 2.45pm when I wake her for the school pick up. So she has a really good nap (conveniently over-lapping with DC2) and doesn't miss out on the morning fun.

Be prepared to go with the flow a bit initially, sometimes your DD will need to nap in the morning, but perhaps for only half an hour, and on other days,vperhaps she will be able to keep going until lunch time. I think it was a month or so of playing it all by ear before we settled into our current routine.

DS was 15mo when he went from a 9am and 1pm to just a 1pm nap. He always loved his morning nap though-would roll straight over and sleep till I woke him up, but then was a bugger to settle after lunch. So I decided to bite the bullet one day and just push on through. He now wakes later in the morning (hallelujah!) so a normal day looks like this:
7.00am wake
12.30pm nap for 1 1/2 hours
6.30pm bedtime

DS was 15mo and started resisting the morning nap. We have now cut it out and he gets up between 7am and 8am, naps around 12/1pm for 2 hours then goes to bed around 7.30/7.45.

DD is only 11 months but has started transitioning.

She used to sleep for about 90 minutes at 9:30ish, and then the same again at about 2pm but around 9 1/2 months she started to refuse the afternoon nap. Also, the first nap was starting later and later, which made it even more difficult to fit in a 2nd one.
We have gradually shortened the morning nap to 30 mins and it's really helped establish a nice long afternoon nap. She now does (approximately):

7:15am wake
10:30-11am sleep
2:30-4pm sleep
7pm bed, asleep at 7:30 usually.

She went from 3-2naps at 6months so I'm quite prepared for her to go to 1 relatively early too.