8 month old has 90mins-2hour nap in the morning-to wake or not to wake?

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My 8 month DS has started having 1.5-2 hour sleep in the morning. He wakes 6.30-7. And has a couple of wake ups at night. Due to school run with older child he goes down at about 9am. I'mWondering if I should be waking him up. He has about 45 minutes in the afternoon and goes to bed about 6.45. But should he be having less in the morning and more in the afternoon which would perhaps improve his sleep Overnight?

My 9 month old has 45min in the morning then anything from 45min to 2 hours in the afternoon. She still wakes up twice a night too (more when teething).

I would leave well alone tbh. Forcing him to wake up from naps will not improve his sleep at night. If anything it will probably make it worse because he'll be overtired. Those lengths of naps sound absolutely fine for his age. The night wakings also sound normal I'm afraid.

My daughter's are the other way around - short nap in morning then long nap later on but the overall sleep he is getting is the right amount for his age and the awake times sound about right too so I personally wouldn't bother changing things unless they are stopping you from doing things you need to do.

Our night wakings range from 0-2 times each night and have done since 7 months (currently 10 months)

My DD did exactly the same at that age, I really miss it now! She swapped them round about 9mo and at 13 months now is on one nap.

Leave well alone
At 8 month my dd was having 30 minutes morning and afternoon and has dropped naps at 18 months completely.
Your very lucky

Let him form his own nap routine. It sounds like it's working for you both (a couple of night wakes is pretty normal). I prefer longer morning naps as we don't then have to confined to the house all afternoon.

My DD used to have 90m-2h morning nap and afternoon nap.

You might get another longer nap if you lengthen awake time a bit. I had school runs too. I established a 9am nap, waking at 11am if not awake. Then a 1pm nap and waking at 3pm for the school run. I actually think an afternoon nap starting at 2pm would have suited her better, but that didn't for with the need to do a school run.

But if you get a 9am-11am nap, I'd suggest seeing if baby can stay awake until 1.30-2pm for the next nap.

Mine did the same - slept from about 9.15 when we got back from dropping his sister off at playschool until 12 when we'd go to pick her up. It was great - I could do anything I wanted and he'd sleep through it and wake up in a great mood.

Thank you all! I am going to leave well alone. My 5 year old was a horrendous sleeper and we barely got any sleep until about a year ago, and I'm worrying that I'm doing things wrong and it's going to be the same again! Not sure my MH would handle it all over again! So yes, I know that I am very lucky with his sleep so far as I've been on the other side of no sleep and I don't want to go there again!