10 month old nap schedule

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What’s everyone naps schedule looking like - 10
Months old??
Hi everyone, looking for some advice. My DD is 10 months old. She has never been a great napper always just had 30-45mins which was fine when she was having several naps a day. Problem is trying to transition to two naps. She wakes so early at the moment - 5am (which is new) and as she only has such short naps her first nap could be over by 830 leaving a very long stretch to her afternoon nap. She often falls asleep at 1230 and will have a good hour here but still meaning she has from 130 til bedtime which is 630-7.
This gap is probably too long which is causing overtiredness and early morning waking as well as lots of overnight waking.
Any ideas please as I’d really like to get it right for her so that she’s well rested.
Thank you
In advance.

Decide what times would suit you best and then just put her in her cot, in a darkened room.

She might cry....just go back and comfort her. Keep doing it daily at the same times.

If she's waking at 5 this isn't ideal....so what I'd do is change her at 5 when she wakes, give her some milk or whatever she has. Then put her straight back until 7.00 treat it a bit like a night waking.

5 isn't reasonable.

Then carry on as I suggested for the rest of the day. If she "wakes" at 7 (that's when you start her day ideally) then a good nap time would be somewhere around 10. or 10.30...up for 11.30 with lunch at 12.

Then a nap at about 3.00pm....one hour. Then bed at 7.30pm.

Thank you. I will try that tomorrow. I think she will do well with two naps once she’s waking a bit later but today I’ve had to put her for her second nap now meaning she will have three naps total because she was up so early.
your right 5am is not reasonable. I’m exhausted and so is she x

I remember this pain.

My DS is 9 months and has never, not once, napped more than 3 times a day and most of those don't reach an hour.

About 3 weeks ago I put him down crying as he's had a feed and was ready for bed but teething so I went to get Calpol as he was in pain. I came back up to his room and he was asleep so I left him to it. He then slept through the night! So it is possible. I don't know what happened but I was very surprised and now he sleeps through bar one night when he was full of cold.

We start bedtime every day at 4:30pm, it's dinner, bath, pyjamas, feed, cuddle and into bed awake. He's usually asleep by 5:30 and takes about 5 minutes to fall asleep without crying.

He wakes up at 5:30-6:30 every morning which some people might say is too early but that's a full 12 hours in one hit. And tbh I'd rather have an evening to myself than a later start to the day. It just depends on what you want.

He naps twice a day usually (once at 10:30, once at 2:30) or has one for a full hour around midday.

All I can say is as long as your LO is full, clean and dry then put them down and see how they go. For most of his life DS would only fall asleep on me or in the pram, and woke up 3 times a night, then that one night I put him down and he slept through by himself!

I hope this helps and good luck!