Nearly 9 month old fighting naps

[Emmaaa1990]

Hi all

My baby is almost 9 months a few days now she has not had an afternoon nap she will just refuse despite my efforts! So on those few days she's been awake from 10.20- bed time which is usually 5.45 ( she can't stay up any later even if she does have 2 naps)

She usually wakes around 6 and wants to sleep about 8.45 so I put her down and she's gone within 10 minutes and usually gets up around 10 then she goes back down about 12.45 and again asleep within 10.

These last few days she's refused the afternoon one and today she's refused her morning one, now I'm like do I keep her up? I will probably put her down earlier like 12ish after her lunch but now I'm worried if she will even sleep at this one!

I know there's sleep regressions etc but I'm starting to think maybe she only needs 1 nap?? She sleeps through the night 6-6 sometimes later so she is doing well at night even despite the weird naps!

Does anyone else have experience on dropping naps this early is it because she's sleeping well at night? She was doing great at naps until this past week! Just confused can anyone help shed some light? I'm at a loss, Thankyou!

Anyone have experience?

My nearly 9 month old is doing the same atm, I think it’s something to do with separation anxiety.

You could also try extending her wake windows a bit? If my DD wakes at 10 from her morning nap, I put her down again around 1-1:15.

@Vicky1989x it's awful isn't it she's so clingy atm!

Yeah I was starting to think that but usually the morning one she's dying to go and sleeps well but today she skipped it completely but she did end up going for an afternoon one 12-1.20pm. But by the time it came to bed she was knackered again! It's so hard to get it right when they keep moving the goal posts!

Try extending the wake windows, especially the second one to 3h or 3h15. And maybe cut the first nap shorter. Do 8:45 - 9:30 then try second nap at 12:30 or 1? X

@JenWilson19 yeah going to try that - today she got up abit later so I put her down for 9 and she went to sleep for an hour at 9.20 but refused an afternoon nap around 1 so maybe I needed to put her down about 1.30. Going to try and extend I think she's a 3 hour kinda girl now haha! Well for a few weeks only I'm sure.

Okay so I have just been through this with my daughter (now 11months!). A couple of things... a lot of it was just down to her “regression” at that stage (her night sleep was also disturbed) and it regulated itself naturally. Then the short naps/refusals happened again a few weeks later and we then increased her wake windows which worked for another few weeks. THEN we had a few awful weeks of only 30min naps/nap refusals until she finally slotted into a one nap schedule and has been doing great ever since! I think it is just a process at this age. So basically now...

6/7am up and milk
830 breakfast
10 milk
1145 lunch
12/1230 nap (usually 2hrs)
230 snack
4 milk
530 dinner
6 bath
630 milk
7ish bed.

Hope that helps! Hang in there... it does get better! I personally have found the past few months by far the most difficult in terms of naps and sleeps.......

@rroddiee ahh that's so reassuring! It's weird isn't it, they change their routine so frequently just as you crack it!

Thankyou so much for explaining what you do/routine that's so helpful! I'm going to trial wake windows and different things to see how she gets on.

Thankyou! I'm hoping it does get better soon, hope you are doing okay x