And what naps does your 10-month+ old take?

[cockle]

I'm interested to know this too.

Currently DS (almost 10 mths) naps about an hour at 9.30, then about 1.5 hours at 12.30/1, although he's becoming difficult to settle for the 2nd nap so I'm wondering whether to cut the first one and/or put him down later for the 2nd one.

The lunchtime nap thing is OK - it means we can get out and do stuff in the afternoon - but it does make lunches out a bit difficult, and I'd like to get back to seeing friends for lunch one day ...

If I lose the morning nap, when will I shower?!

cockle, my ds's naps vary every blinkin day, so just let him sleep when he wants at the moment. tried cutting his am nap a while ago to 30 mins, but it just meant he was too tired to eat lunch, and didn't always follow that he slept longer at lunchtime. he is 9.5 months, and still needs a short cat nap at around 4.30 ish, or else bedtime is a nightmare!! thought by this age things would be easier, but his sleep day and night is all over the place!!

How do you know when your ds wants to sleep alibo? My DS never shows any signs till he's in the bedroom, lights off, being rocked! Instantly goes from full of beans to sleepyhead - IF I pick the right time - which has always been 9.30 and 12.30 till recently, so now I'm confused!

omg, DS napped for about an hour at 9.30 today and I put him down for his lunchtime nap about 12.45 - he didn't go to sleep till 3pm, and I had to breastfeed him in order to get that to happen!!! Played around quite happily in his cot for about an HOUR, then started crying. He is teething, but if he's in pain, why would it take him an hour before he started protesting? Did I just put him down too early, or let him sleep too much this morning, or what?

Oh, just when you think you're starting to understand them .....

ok I'll answer here too as ds2 is 11.5 months. He's never had/needed as rigid a routine as ds1 and really it doesn't seem to matter too much when he has his sleep, but generally I put him down around 9-9.30 (he wakes between 6.30 and 7); I may wake him after 30 mins or may leave him sleep, depending if we're going out; then he is usually ready to go down again around 1pm, very approximately - usually for about 1.5 hours. However he can survive on just one nap, but I prefer to give him a short morning sleep if I want to synchronise lunch and nap times with ds1 - cockle, sounds like your ds is moving towards dropping a napto me!

When will you shower? - before he wakes up in the morning! Or just take him with you while you do it! (we've always been up for ages by 9.30 and ds1 will be champing at the bit to get outside somewhere!)

Shower before 7am????

DS is an absolute menace in the bathroom - had no idea it could be such a dangerous place for a crawler .... eek

Do you have a dh/dp? Shower before he leaves??
Actually I never shower before 7am - dh has that privelege.
And yes, they do find the most inappropriate things to play with in the bathroom - but a box of tampons can keep a baby amused quite safely....

Maybe try moving the lunchtime nap back a little? Could you put your DS in his cot/playpen/travel cot with some safe toys for a little while while you shower? Otherwise it will have to be early am. You're going to have to come up with something because he's going to drop the am nap before he becomes snesible.

dd2 has one long sleep a day, lasting about three hours, generally from 10am till 1pm. This suits me fine as it lets me do the morning thing with the older two, and then put her down after we get back from doing the school drop-off, and means I can get three hours work done in the morning.

But am planning to push her sleep further towards lunchtime from January, so that babysitter can take her to playgroups in the am, and she'll sleep here in the pm. That's the plan, anyway.

wrt to showering, and sanity in general -- playpen is the answer.

shower at night when baby is in bed?

cockle, when he's tired he usually starts rubbing the side of his head or eyes; doesn't usually yawn or start crying. if i leave him too long he gets a bit "hyper" and past it. he is teething also which completly throws things in the air. today for example, he had about an hour at 9.45am. put him down then at about 1.15,took him a while to go off, and then only slept for 30mins. then had 20 mins in his pram at about 4.15; now his eye rubbing again, as he does normally sleep more in the day. he is much better if he has a longer sleep after lunch, but cutting the morning nap short doesn't always mean he will sleep longer after lunch, so i am baffled too!!

well my ds - 8.5mo slept 10.15-12.40 today and then again 3-4 - he normally never sleeps that long and I was sure he was dropping his am nap! and he's rubbing his eyes again now. Although he was a bit snotty the past few days - maybe he didn't get a good nights sleep last night. He woke at 4 for a feed and then back off to sleep till 7.

Erm, cockle, at some point he'll stop napping in the morning and you'll have to find a way to shower .

You didn't say what time he's up in the morning and how much he sleeps at night. Could be he's ready to go for 1 nap a day, lots of kids are, though it took my dd until she was 15 months before she went to 1 nap a day. At 10 months she slept 1.5 hours at 10.30am and 1.5 hours at 3pm.

DS (11mths) up around 8am, I shower sometime after 9am when he is dressed & fed and I put him in his cot with toys etc... so he knows he isn't put there to sleep, sometime that is ok sometimes he will scream. Unable to have him in the bathroom now as he tries to get in the bath and pulls the shower curtain over his head so the bathroom floor and DS get soaked . He naps am & pm for 30 min each. Can be anytime - has no routine for this. Bed 7pm. 7pm - 8am, not as good as it sounds cos he still wakes for a bottle around 5am.

prefernot, he sleeps 7pm - 7am (has been waking a lot in the night for the past 6 weeks but the last couple of nights, thank god, much more settled - just woke at 10pm, had a cuddle and went straight back to sleep for the rest of the night).

Decided to cut morning nap to 30 mins today, and he obviously agreed because he woke up after exactly half an hour (he's not always this amenable!). We'll see what happens later.

Will have to try the cot/playpen thing for showering - not sure how he'll take it but I guess he'll have to cope!!

PS last 6 weeks was teething, I should've said