Advice please - dropping to one daytime nap

[Twinmumessex]

Hello all

My twins are 13months old. For the past 6 months they have have napped between 9am-10am (anything from 30mins to 1hour) and then again from 1.30pm (anything between 45mins to 1hr30). Over the past couple weeks, we’ve had some instances where one of them won’t go down either for the morning nap or afternoon one so I think we need to look at dropping down to one nap.

I’ve been advised they should have the one nap at around 11.30am/12pm but I do baby groups in the mornings and generally don’t get home until 11.30am so this doesn’t give me enough time to give them lunch and then put them down for midday. I REALLY don’t want to have to drop my baby groups!!

Soooo, some experience/advice please:
What age did your baby drop to one nap? How did you know when the time was right and how did you go about it?
What time do they go down when on one nap?
And for how long?

Thank you!

My DS dropped to one nap very abruptly on his first birthday. He just started to refuse 2 naps and on days we managed it wouldn’t go to bed till late. It started at about 11am-1.30. Now that he’s 17 months almost it’s 11.45 before he goes down. We’ve been on one nap for ages now but the lunch time adjustment is still a bit of an issue. When he was going at 11 I used to give a decent snack at 10.30 then lunch as soon as he woke. Now it’s 11.45 he has lunch at 11, normally eats half and then has the other half when he wakes up.

You don’t have to give up your groups. Just try give a big snack before at play group, or if you are walking they could eat it in the pram. I wouldn’t worry about it. As they get older he nap will get later and you can fit lunch it more easily.