Nearly 10 month refusing second nap

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Nearlly 10 month old refusing second nap ALOT unless in motion.

Can self settle. And sleeps through most the time with early waking.

Has a 1.5 hour nap from 9-10.30am. Then I go put down at 1.50pm (after 3.5 hours awake time) and he just refuses to nap in his cot. He plays for 20 mins then gets upset.

Do I reduce morning nap? (this doesn’t always guarentee long second nap)

More awake time?

Not really sure what to do as he’s always had a lot of day sleep, then hit 8 months and it seems he just doesn’t want to nap as much - this coincided with him sleeping through.

Any tips!?

Can’t have him up from 10.30am - 6pm 😂

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My DS did similar at this age. The solution seemed to be cutting down his morning nap. I think first I limited it to 30mins, then 20mins, then 15mins etc until about 12/13 months he completely dropped it.

Having a short morning nap seemed to build up enough tiredness that after lunch he would then do a lovely long nap of 2-3 hours.

I'd push back the first nap to after lunch gradually. Dd was down to 1 nap well before 6 months old though, so I'm pretty chilled about limited nap time!!

Yeah mine would only have about 30-60mins at 9am. Then next nap at 2-3 pm for another hour or so. Bedtime 9pm. Around 12 months dropped to one nap

Hes not quite 2 but misses naps some days now and easily stays awake 6/7am until 8/9pm!

Can you do the afternoon nap a bit later?

My DS (11 months) has a nap at 10am and another at 3pm. He does only usually sleep for 30 mins for each one though (occasionally an hour).

Have you tried a quick cat nap at about 2.30/3 instead? Something to keep him going until bedtime? I'm not an advocate of deliberately waking baby from naps, as there's no guarantee it will work as you intend, so I wouldn't try and limit the first nap in the hope of keeping the second, though as you say, that is your other option. But having 1.5 hours in the morning and then 30 minutes towards the end of the day would seem fine to me at that age, if you can make a cat nap work