10 months - too early for just one nap?

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DS is just 10 months, he has been pretty solid with 2 naps a day (10.30am and 3pm ish), going to sleep around 7.30pm. But for the last week or so he has been sleeping longer and later at the morning nap then fighting the second nap. If I have managed to get him down it's often around 5pm!!

A couple of days I haven't managed to get him down in the afternoon, and he has gone to bed around 7pm.

He is moving around LOADS in the daytime, lots of pulling to standing and trying to walk holding hands or furniture. Also properly saying dada and mama now. Eating well, wakes for one breastfeed around 4am.

The total time he naps is probably about the same, just shifting into one later nap...

Is it too early for him to be dropping to one nap? I keep hearing that he should have at least 2 naps until his first birthday, but he has gone from settling well to being really difficult to settle in the afternoon...

Nope- DS dropped to one at that age, and as my DM loves to remind me, I didn't nap at all from about that age

Ignore 'should'. It's at best an average, at worst a figure plucked out of thin air.

Follow your baby's lead

Mine were all down to one nap by 9 months the babies don’t read the books

Just to add a different voice: mine did this for a couple of weeks while learning to walk but did go back to 2 easy naps again around 15 months. I was pleased we persevered and didn't drop a nap until then, and my DD has always slept through and been a great sleeper. I do know others that dropped a nap but found that they then started to get less consistent nightime sleep. Although it obviously works for some as above!

If you're not sure about going from 2-1 yet, you could always start capping the morning nap, so he can start his second nap earlier. My DS is 2 and on one a day now, but I have to wake him every day, otherwise he'd nap forever and would never be back up in time to go to bed!

I've always found looking at suggested "windows of wakefulness" more useful than looking at nap numbers and lengths. Ie is he really going to be capable of being awake for 6 hours before his nap (based on an average wake up at 6.30am and nap at 12.30)? Some babies at that age are, but most can still only cope with 3/4 hrs awake, which is why two shorter naps can be better than one long one at that age.