My baby is almost 6 months old. He’s been fighting the third nap for the last month. I hate it and I can’t wait for it to go. He settled well for him morning and lunch nap and night time, it’s just the third one he fights nail and tooth.
The thing is, I think he still needs it. He’s often tired after just 2 hrs awake, although can go to 2.5 hrs. Dropping the third nap is a huge jump (even if I bring bedtime forward, it’s stilk about 3.5 hrs awake). When I do get him to sleep, he conks right out.
A few weeks ago he refused the nap two days in a row. Both times he was bolt awake between 3-5am then up for the day at 6. Now I’m terrified he’ll do that again.
All the usual stuff isn’t effective with him. Nothing works. He won’t feed to sleeping and won’t nap on the go (sling/car/pram). He likes to be in his cot and I usually can get him to back but after 30 mins feeding him first then 30 mins battle. It’s awful.
Today he point blank refused his nap. It all went a bit wrong and by the time he was actually asleep in bed, he’d been awake over 4hrs!! Thankfully he actually seemed chipper enough but let’s see what the night holds.... It’s frustrating as only in the last week have we started to have reasonably good sleep at night.
I don’t know whether to test dropping the nap for a few days (but fear ruining our recently improved nights) or whether to persevere (on the grounds that he can usually only be awake 2-2.5 hrs).
What she did you drop it successfully?