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!

lilysma - hi! my ds's 'routine' goes a bit like this:
6:30/7am wake up (sometimes later but rarely earier )
nap 3hrs later around 10am for 1-1.5hrs
wake 11/11.30am
12lunch
nap again around 3 hrs later. It is hard for me to get this one right as he has to fall asleep early enough for him to have a good hour before I need to wake him for school run. If it goes too late then I keep him awake and let him nap in car on sch run. Tbh I am always stressing about nap times whenever they are . Right now he has stopped yelling in his cot and is saying "da da da" over and over . Gonna be a short a/n nap today
bedtime is 8pm whether he wakes at 3:15 or 4pm. hth
clairy - once tey drop to one nap do you bring bedtime forward? i will dread doing this as ds used to wake anytime after 5am when bedtime was 7pm

Thanks Cruise and Claireybee. DD only seems to be sleeping for about half an hour a day at the moment and then another 20 mins or so dozing on the breast - surely this can't be right! We had to redo cc a couple of nights ago as she was wanting to be in my bed all night after having been ill - it wasn't for too long, but she screamed blue murder . But for the last couple of nights she's slept from 8-4 without a peep. 4 is a bit early for the first waking though so not sure whether to be brave enough to leaver her to cry then - I'm always scared that she's actually hungry by then .

I'm also always stressed about naps whatever happens! Maybe I should just try to go with the flow more...

Cruise, what did you do about the nap thing?

DD is having one half hour nap at nursery this week and she's absolutely knackered. I think it's hard for her if we have two different routines so I'm thinking of just moving to one nap and wondered how you'd got on.

Hope you're all well and your DS had a good birthday. My DD has turned into a stoppy teenager since turning one!

Hope you are feeling better these days!?

Interesting thread for us as dd is 16 months now
and seemingly dropping the morning nap although
she does still need 2 hours daytime sleep in total.

Usually one hour in the morning, one hour after lunch
but the last few days it has been 2 hours after lunch.

Speaking of sleep..

dd3 turned 1 last week and still has 2 naps - she needs them, one about 930ish for about 1.5 hours, and 2 hours after lunch. She goes to bed at 7 and sleeps (mostly ) through the night

shortly after 1, he chaged his pattern from two naps: 10-11am & 14-16 to one single nap 12am-2pm.

IN general I let DS sleep when he wanted to. Got down to about 1 nap a day from around the 12 month mark, then from about 18 months or so droppeddaytime naps alltogether. He didn't want to sleep so I didn't push it (admitteldy he slept at nursery because they put all the kids down for a nap at nap time), I used to put him in his play pen after lunch and leave him, but mostly he diedn't want to sleep.
Now and again he would drop off in the buggy on the way to or from somewhere - actually 2 days ago he asked to go in the buggy for the first time in ages when we were going into town, and slept for about 40 minutes. (He's almost 3). DOn';t worry about it too much, let your LO decide whether to sleep or not.

With regard to M&T groups, why not put yours in the buggy, go along and let him either sleep or not sleep depending on what happens?

same here dropped daytime sleep at 18 mths, bar the occasional snooze in buggy

nice to see some old friends from the whole sleep is for the weak days!!
yep, hi cruise, im having the same dilemma and my boy is 1 on tuesday! like yours, sleeps great at night now, and usually doesn't properly get up til after 6 (although tries to rise at 5.30sometimes).
last two days he has taken a good 1.5hrs morning nap, but afternoon gone to pot. yesterday me and dp tried for an hour to put him down, and eventually he did sleep but not til 3, and its usually at 2. today, tried again for an hour and i gave up in end and got him up. he seems fine, but thinking will probably have to put him to bed early?!
am panicking a bit about the baby groups cos we go to one every morning! his morning nap is generally 8.40ish to 9.40ish, but if he shifts later its going to blow the lot!
can't decide whether to try and maintain 2 naps or help him shift to one midday one?
or am i being too hasty?!

hi all - i didnt realise this thread had been unearthed again . Still pondering hte whole 2 to 1 nap thing. I just started a thread ths morning as ds now screams blue murder when put in his cot for naps . he does sleep but yesterday he was sobbing, screaming for 30mins before he fell asleep. I know he was tired as he was displaying all his usual sleepy behaviour. am clinging on to two naps still as he does need them at the mo (I think )

maebee - I wonder about adjusting bedties once they drop to one nap as ds currently goes to bed at 8pm. I am worred that an earlier bedtime will mean we are back to 5:30am wakes up . that was horrible !
Daddyj- HI . I was wondering where you were. /any news from Kiskidee? Or has she had a nervous breakdown because of all us neglectful, barbaric parents

bedtimes obviously

now ds has started to wake around 6am so he falls asleep on the school run in the car around 8:30am. this is good cos it means we can do toddler groups when he wakes around 10am and still have afternoon nap at 2pm but am wondering if it is cos he needs less sleep in general iyswim

Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement I don't think I should comment

Joking aside, I hope you and your two lovelies are doing well.
6am starts are back at our end, too, but I do enjoy that first cuddle in the morning.
As long as I haven't been on MN too long the night before..

I have to say, cruise, it is very odd how so many of your threads have struck
a chord with us - the breastfeeding one, the one about what you actually do with a baby
and even the motorway one! Hope you stick around.

I still lurk loads but haven't posted that much since the sleep got sorted.
Also, getting too distracted by this amazing little person! dd is just magic.

We are toying with the idea of creating some more magic..but at the moment I quite
like the toying bit

its driving me crazy this naps thing! its freaking with the nights too. or is that teething?
i shortened his morning nap to 45 mins and that seemed to help him have an hour or so afternoon nap. hasn't helped the night wakings. or early mornings. grrr. its like the old sleep is for the weak days in this knackered household!
today he fought his morning nap though he was shattered, kept falling asleep on my shoulder. no dice. now to continue with my new regime i have to wake him up and im dreading that...
how long does it take til they level out? its so hard to know if im doing something stupid, creating 1 nap when we still could be on 2!

Around a year she dropped her mini-evening nap (20 minutes at around 7pm).

cruisemum - we are doing 5.30 wake ups again. its grim. we only ever got to 6.30 at the best though!