10 month old - ready for one nap a day?!

[GreenShades]

Hi.

I have twin girls, 10 months old.

Since Saturday my twin girls have been resisting the afternoon nap.

With afternoon nap it has been taking 20 mins for them to fall asleep.

I have tried waking early from morning nap by 15 mins so instead of 1 1/2 hr nap today they did 1 15min nap.

Afternoon nap I pushed back to 1:45. It took 16 min for them to fall asleep. They then woke 45 mins later and would not settle back to sleep.

This afternoon they have been awake from 2:30pm.

They were put in cots at 6:50 but both were playing and not going to sleep. Then screaming and crying followed.

One twin fell asleep at 7:30 and the other at 7:50.

What is going on?!

They usually slept so well, morning and afternoon a 1 1/2 hr nap and then asleep by 7pm.

Now they fight every nap and bedtime.

Should I try one nap instead?

My DS went down to one nap a day at about that age. It worked well. I'd feed him raisins and high-energy foods at the usual morning naptime, to keep him going. Then he'd drop off to sleep about 40 minutes after lunch, and that was it. Bedtimes got easier, too.

I think they are a little young to be on one nap, although you could try and see if they manage. I would try capping the morning nap much shorter so 9-9:30 then go for a longer after lunch nap; 12:30-2:30

@Squiblet I'm scared to try one nap especially with twins incase it all goes wrong ☺️ but I've been tempted!

@user2391 maybe I will try reducing the morning down to 45mins?

I will update how this goes.

My DS went through what I believed to be his sleep regression at this stage mixed with teething - he had about 4 teeth come through at once! He was also refusing both of his morning and afternoon naps, and pretty bad at night time. In the end we stopped the morning nap and he started to have a 3 hour afternoon nap after his lunch. Worked well for us and still going with it now, however if he is particularly tired some days I will put him down for an extra morning nap, normally just depends what time he wakes in the morning.

@KirstyP0594 I believe it has something to do with this regression as sleep was fine a few weeks ago and plus teething which seems to have gone on forever!