So what age did your lo go from 2 naps to 1? And how could you tell they needed to???

[cruisemum1]

Just curious as ds turned 1 on Friday and I know it is imminent!

dd is 19 months and mostly has one nap after lunch for about 1 1/2 hours,
she normally wakes on a morning at 8am.
If she wakes earlier she does get one nap in morn and 1 in evening.
I have always just gone with the flow and let her dictate when she naps. she has ALWAYS gone to bed at 7-8pm and sleeps 12 hours, irrespective of how many naps she has.
HTH

dd is two at the end of this month and started just having one long nap when she was about 15mnths

she used to have one mid morning and then one later on in the afternoon, now she goes at around 11 and can stay asleep anywhere between 1 and two!! i've tried waking her up but she is really ratty for he rest of the day so now i just leave her she must need the rest

forgot to mention that she wakes at 6.30 to 7 in te morning and and goes to bed at half six on a night and sleeps through no probs

My dd, who is 1 this week, dropped her afternoon sleep about a week ago. It was quite sudden, she just seemed to decide that she no longer needed it. I kept on putting her in her cot at the same time each day but she would just stand up and not even try to sleep. After about a week of this I decided to stop trying and just leave her to have a morning sleep.

My DS is 14 months and is just starting to drop to 1 nap.

At nursery he has been having one nap (usually 1-1.5 hours) after lunch for a couple of months now.

However on the days he is at home, he tends to wake at 7ish and then is ready for a nap about 9am where he sleeps for upto 2 hours (I think he does without this at nursery as there is far more going on). The last couple of weeks, I have only been putting him down for an afternoon nap (between 2-3) if he seems to need one and tbh, I bet this has only happened 2 or 3 times. He seems quite happy to go from 11am until bedtime (7pm) without another nap.

crikey! it is quite a range isn't it? I don#t think ds is ready to drop it yet but the prob I have is that his first nap is around 10am for 90mins or so and this cuts out any possibility of M And T groups etc. he then needs another nap around 3 - 3.5hrs later which coincides with school run. Very diff to fit in two atm. Plus he always resists naps by yelling which makes me feel so guilty . I guess he needs it though otherwise he would not go for 90mins ?Kind of looking forward to going to 1 per day. I have a dd of 9yo but I cannot for the life of me remember what happened with her

14 months cos I was too dim to recognise the signs sooner.

He still napped really well during the day but was awake umpteen times a night.

I should have changed naps about 2 months sooner than I did.

oh gawd - now I am in a flap! ds does seem to sleep really well in the dya but sometimes wakes around 5ish and has to be resettled. I put this down to teething but i could be wrong too . I wish they could talk

as he is just 1 year should i take the bull by the horns and try it out or wait? Oh what to do???

Try it and see how it goes, but I reckon it will take a couple of weeks to get it properly established. I sort of staggered ds's change over a few weeks as he couldn't stay awake all morning to begin with, so started keeping him up til say 1030 and then shifting gradually each week until he could stay awake until noon.

Cruise, Hi. DD is still pretty much on 2 naps. I thought when she started nursery last week that might change but actually she's still doing 2 (albeit shorter). She also gets up at 5.30 ish and there is no going back to sleep for her so by 9 ish she's knackered. If your DS really protests give the one nap a go for a couple of days. you might find that he'll go twice every other day or something. DD seems to sleep longer when at home so maybe she's catching up on what shes missing at nursery and maybe after a week it all balances itself. We're also getting better nights on nursery days and I'm not sure if thats due to less napping or more stimulation.

DS just did it himself at about 22 months I think. He basically started taking longer and longer playing in his room before going to sleep for his morning nap and then he would just play and not sleep for his afternoon one! So I dropped the afternoon one and pushed the morning one over to lunchtime. The last couple of weeks I've moved it further to an afternoon nap though that's taking a bit of transition. I'm sure he could go without a nap at all now if needs be.

I wouldn't force it to happen. If he's sleeping and napping well then keep with it!

DD was 18 months. Just started refusing to go for a morning nap. Or just slept for 15 mins in the morning. After about a week of this I stopped trying to get her to have a morning nap, and she went happily to one nap after lunch (about 12.45) for about 2 hours. She goes to bed at about 7.15 and wakes at 6.45 am.

11 months. Her morning nap just got later and later, until one day she seemed like she didn't need it. She missed the second one for a few days around 10 months, but then re-instated it for another couple of weeks before dropping fully.

Not wanting to go to sleep is usually a good sign!

hmmm, mine is 10 months and has the same sllep as cruisemum normally on a agood day but sometimes just 2 x 40 mins at either 10am and 3/3.30pm - he has started nursery this week and today when i picked him up i was a bit shocked when they said he slept 10.30 till 11.10 andn then refused any more so there he was sat there grinning at 4pm - i rushed home to get him asleep for 40 mins at least but he resisted and went to bed at 6.45pm happily - now he is a bit young so wondering if this is a one off or whether i should ditch that late afternoon one too .

nappyzone - tricky innit?! . 10 mths does sound young for only one nap but, as we are fond of saying, they are all different!!

DS 2.5 dropped morning nap at 10 months he would just sing in his cot for 40 mins. He has also now dropped his lunchtime nap - somebody said this would more like 3 when he would do this, but I decided to get rid of the nap as he was only having half and hour and getting up at 5.30 am. Too early for me! He has never been a great sleeper, so in a way having no nap is a relief as he actually sleeps through!

thankfully mine had 2 again today at nursery so hoping its a one off but at least i know he can last should it arise again..... just glad i willg et my 'down time' on my days off!!!

This is a difficult one isn't it? DD (10 months) has always been a shocking napper (v short and in the pram only until a couple of months ago). Finally got a fairly consistent routine of one at about 10.30 (she wakes up at 7.30ish) and another at about 2.30 - each usually only for half an hour. Now she has just started nursery - we're still settling in and she hates it, but that's a different story - and they say she can have a sleep in the morning but she may not want to because of all the noise etc. So far she hasn't (mainly because she's too upset to countenance sleep ) so I've been putting her down at lunchtime when she comes home (she can only manage a morning there so far). Sometimes she then sleeps for 1-2 hours and sometimes only for half an hour. She still seems to need a sleep later though as otherwise she's overtired at bedtime (8ish). So then we end up with her sleeping at 4.30ish, which is always a bf to sleep snuggle in bed as it's just too hard to get her down in the cot then. Of course this is going to be impractical when I'm actually back at work, so god knows what's going to happen...

lilysma - hi again . the trials and tribulations of parenting eh?! . I always seem to be fretting about the next stage/hurdle and then dismissing the one I was fretting about previously as merely a minor blip! Must mean they are all minor blips iyswim ! to hear your dd is not setting at nursery. Must be so hard to bear. . I do think that at 10mo they need more than 1 nap per day. Esp as they are learning so much at that age. Your dd must be shattered. ds's naps are reasonalbe in lenght but he always protests when I put him in the cot for them. He falls asleep without complaint in his buggy/car set but always creates when he is put in his cot. I don't like that he cries first but he does nap far better in his cot. Could you work hard at a nap routine for dd before she goes to nursery full time and you go to work? I am sure it does them so much good to have a recharge of the batteries midway through the day... going to bed now - ds up at 6:24am this morning ....n'nite

My dd is 1 next week. She always starts the day by 5.30am. So is then really tired by 8.30am, when she sleps for 40-60 mins. Then really tired again by about 12.30 and sleeps for 90 mins. Really tired by 7pm when she goes to bed. I'd love to get her to sleep until at least 6am each morning. But I can't see that I can play with the daytime sleeps at all. She really needs them. If anything I think she needs more daytime sleep. Any thoughts about how I get her to wake later? I've been resisting the idea of giving her milk as don't want to encourage her to wake - but maybe should?

grassymeadows - for your early wakings. my ds did this until 10mths when we went on holiday. We drove to Devon and he slept during the journey on and off. That meant he could go tobe later that ngiht which suited me as i have a 9yo dd who wants to go out in teh evenings! He went to bed later, got up later and nap times were rescheduled accordingly. I have to say it transformed my life . I am not suggestging you drive to devon but adjusting bedtime/naptimes really worked for me. hth

I know what you mean, Cruise - it always seems like you were worrying about nothing once the stage has passed and then you're on to worrying about the next one! Back to work the day after tomorrow and dd is still v unsettled at nursery (we need a 'desperate' icon, don't we? ). She's back in my bed all night as she has a cold and I can't bear to leave her to cough/snuffle and cry in the night as a well as for half the day at nursery (sob). Not sure how i'm going to get out of this one...

When does your LO go to bed? Woud love to shift dd's 5am wake up at bit!

Grassymeadows, have you tried gradually pushing your LOs first nap a bit late? That is supposed to help with the early wakings. Didn't work for me though, so I don't know why I'm recommending it ! But always worth a try...

Um...dd used to nap at 11 am and 3pm. when she was 11 months we joined a new toddler group that went on until 12pm. She was fine at toddler group cos was having too much fun to notice that she was tired but was a real grump as soon as we left and would often fall asleep in buggy on way home so would put her to bed then and give her lunch when she woke up. she gradually stopped being grumpy and tired at that time so i could then give her lunch before putting her down for her nap (usually goes down between 12.30 and 1) and then she didnt want the afternoon nap. Today she was really tired due to a cold and waking early this morning not able to breathe so has already gone for her nap and will have lunch when she wakes up-i just base it around when she wants to sleep now