When did your baby drop to just one nap - and what were the signs?

[MaeWest]

Just wondered as DS (who is crap sleeper anyway) has just started being really difficult to get to sleep at bedtime. He's 10 months and has fallen into a pattern of longish nap in the morning (1.5-2hrs and feeds to sleep ), usually awake by 12ish then a short nap in the afternoon, often in the buggy usually around 3ish

My 0ne yr old did this for about 5weeks she dropped both her naps (45mins each) 10 an 2 even though i still felt she needed a nap, she has recently started taking naps again both of them! if he is over tired he may find it hard to go sleep. I tightened my night time routine up when i was having trouble getting her to sleep at bedtime, let me know if you would like to know our routine!

I read somewhere that if you want them to go to bed at about 7pm you should not let them be asleep after 3.30pm.

My lo is 11 months, a terrible (but improving) sleeper too. We have done the gradual withdrawl / retreat method for learning to go to sleep by himself and this has been fantastically successful (but not perfect!)

I was wondering about when naps go from 2 to 1 so will be watching this one!

dd2 is now 15 mths and for the last month or so has been trying to do the one nap a day thing, she used to do 1hr am 10.30-11.30 and then do 2.30-4 afternoons. She now manages to go until about 1-2pm before dropping for 1.5-2hrs. Although today I took her out in the car to meet friends for lunch and she dropped off about 12.15 and stayed asleep until 1pm!! then went again 3.30-4.30

oh and she happily went to bed at 7pm and fell asleep by half past.

Well I think my LO is dropping to one at 10 months. He's always been really difficult to get to nap though (and still not sleeping through by a long chalk) so I don't know whether it's just me giving up the battle for that first nap. But he seems to do okay on just one - wakes about 6.30, naps from about 1 -3 or 3.30, goes to bed at 7. He used to nap for about 45 mins at 9 or 10ish and still often looks tired then but either I can't get him to sleep at all or he wakes up after 20 mins.

I know they say that naps affect nighttime sleep but I can't see a pattern. The 2 days he goes to nursery he hardly sleeps at all - maybe one 45 minuter and I don't think those nights are any worse than the rest. Then again I may be too sleep deprived to remember...