When did you LO drop to one nap?

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And how did you know they were ready?

Somewhere around 12 months.

Just stopped being tired in the morning so the morning sleep gets later and later until you put baby down at 11am ish and they sleep over lunchtime. Gradually you shift the sleep until after dinner.

around 11 months. started sleeping longer at the morning nap and then didn't want a second one. pushed the nap gradually later until it was just after lunch

13 months. Starting nursery helped drop the am one

Thank you. My DS is 10.5months and still very much needs two naps. I'm looking forward to cutting to one so we have more time to do stuff in the day instead of planning around naps.

DS2 was about 19 months. They don't all drop at around a year.*

Juniper, how did you know when he was ready?

Just dropped to 1 at nearly 15 months. It does make mornings easier! It was a tough transition though as she was exhausted in the mornings, but if she had her morning nap she wouldn't have her afternoon one so ended up only napping for half an hour a day.

Forced his hand at 18mo while visiting family over Xmas. He always had a long nap in am and mid afternoon nap was getting more and more difficult and couldn't be bothered with it over holidays so went cold turkey and moved nap later to after lunch. Had a few messy lunch times when he was too tired to eat (and a few lunches at 11am..) but we never looked back.

Dropped nap all together at 2.6yo. He'd refused to have it in his cot since about 2.4yo so was having to go for a drive, so again we sort of forced his hand a bit to make our life easier... Again, a few long days with messy bedtimes but now he's asleep at night in 2mins and when he does have a short nap at nursery twice a week he takes ages to fall asleep at bedtime.

Sooooooo glad days of napping are over. Counting the months til 16wk old DS2 no longer needs naps

You'll know when he's ready.

When we finally made it to the end of toddler group singing at 11.15am. Even then I had to push it a bit. Its only in the last month I've been able to get him to lunchtime before a nap and he was 2 in january.

And now he's 2.1 and he's trying to drop it altogether [sob]

19mths!!

It was going to nursery at 10mo that started the process and probably by 13/14mo she was consistently on one nap. Tbh, even now I think she could probably have two naps, her nap can be 3 hours, and she regularly falls asleep at 11am.

In a way, one nap is not necessarily easier - you are rushing around trying to cram stuff into the morning, very aware that if you get home after 11.30 they might be too tired to eat much lunch, then will they wake up hungry... I can see the advantages of two naps!

I forced it very early. I loved going to toddler groups in the morning and I found he slept for hours in the afternoon after a busy morning. (and it lasted until age 5, lovely!)

3 hour naps trilby, that's what dreams are made of! DD is 15 months, now won't go down to sleep until 1pm and sleeps a max of an hour and a half.

I think I put DS1 down to one nap at 12 months used to nap 11 til 1, can't really remember though as he is 6 now!

DS is just coming up for a year and is transitioning to one nap - will happily still take 2 naps which I love - but the morning nap is getting quite late now and he'll sleep for 2 hours meaning the afternoon nap sometimes isn't til 4ish which is too late.

He can do one nap but it's a struggle in the morning and a real struggle in the evening.

About 11 months. Now at nearly 20 months she sometimes doesn't nap at all, or has less than 20mins. X

I think it was around 15-18m with dd. It was when it started getting difficult getting her to take an afternoon nap so I cut down her morning nap. Eventually I had to get rid of the morning nap altogether.

Ds is 14m and still takes good morning and afternoon naps.

Around 8 months, he just stopped falling alseep for his morning nap had a few days of no naps, and then settled on one nap 12 to 13.30 which he still has at 18months.
He is now waking earlier in the morning and going to sleep later so I'm thinking of shortening his nap to see if it helps. I think the prob is he likes to sit and 'read' or cuddle his little sister rather than move around so just isn't tiring himself out at the moment, I'm really hoping the summer changes things.

Around 11/12 months my ds started waking earlier, taking a long nap in the morning & his afternoon nap got later & later until eventually it was at teatime & he started to refuse it. For a while he still needed the odd 2 nap day to stop him getting overtired. He was fully on one nap by 15 months.

Purple your ds is probably in the 18 month sleep regression. I really wouldnt cut his nap. Been there done that & DS very much nerded his nap once the regression had passed. All cutting it did was make my ds an overtired wreck. Early waking is usually a sign the nap needs to go a bit later - I would look to slowly shift it to start at 12.30 or 1pm & push bedtime back by 30 mins too. This should help once the regression has passed. Sorry for thread hijack!

omama unfortunatly he is in nursery until 13.45 and needs to nap before that, so not much scope for moving it. They have said he often wakes before 90min now though so we will try moving it a little and see if it helps.

Also a bit tied on bedtimes as I've a 6 week old to also get into bed but hopefully I'll be able to sort her timings a bit more soon as well.

I really should have planned things better, hitting the 18month and 6 week regressions on the same nights isn't much fun!

It was about thirteen months. she just wasn't tired until about midday and started sleeping for longer so didn't need a later nap at all.

Sympathies purple I have a 15 week old & bedtimes are a bit hard work at the mo for us too tho slowly getting better. Shame about the nap/nursery timing - leaves you a bit stuck really as its the nap timing that will ultimately sort the early waking. I wouldnt shift bedtime later if you are stuck with that nap time as all it'll do is make him more tired. Fingers crossed things improve soon.xx

13 Months as started at Childminder

I have a question about this - I was going to start a new thread but seems pointless to have two active threads on dropping to one nap.

My DS is 12 months and has been sleeping 8-7 overnight consistently since 8 months and two naps in the day. Longer one in the morning which I cap at 2 hours usually 10-12 and another 45 mins or an hour in the afternoon around 3:30.

This has worked for both of us but recently he is waking up earlier in the morning. I used to be able to set my watch by him at 7am but he's now waking at about 6:30am.

He takes his naps happily but it is clearly chipping into his night sleep now. He can do one nap but it's an awful struggle to keep him awake until 12:30 and then an absolute slog to keep him awake from 2:30 to bedtime, even putting him to bed a bit earlier.

Should I just go through the pain and do the transition or should shorten his his morning nap a bit? I feel like he needs that long sleep in the morning so we get a nice long stint of him being refreshed and playful and it means he is used to doing a 2hr nap in the day. I'm worried if he only does two shorter naps that when he does transition to one nap he'll only sleep for an hour or an hour and a half because that's what he's used to.

Anyone?

Could you just let his morning nap run longer, maybe try 11 to 2 and a quite time in the afternoon instead of the second nap, and if needed move his bedtime a little earlier and see how he gets on.

Mine would also sometimes takes a micro nap 10min or so but that was something he would just decide for himself and go for a lie down when he needed it so I'm not sure how you could go about building it into the days routine for them.

Unfortunatly I think the transition is a bit painful as some days they need a second nap and some days they don't.