Morning nap...what age dropped?

[futurity]

Hi

My ds is almost 10 months old. He currently has 15 mins in the morning and then 1 1/2 hours after lunch (if I am lucky!). Recently he has been waking after an hour at lunch time...something he did a while ago when he was still having 30-45 mins in the morning. I reduced the first nap to 15 mins and all fine until now! Problem is he is only having 1 hour and then getting very tired in the afternoon so needing another nap which means a walk round the block or a drive in the car!

Anyway...what age did other babies drop the am nap? Surely 10 months is too early as he is yawning his head off my 9.30!

Any help appreciated

My DS was 12 months and even then he struggled for a while, but it coincided with moving to the toddler room at nursery.

Both my dds dropped their morning naps at after 12 months old, but youngest will nap in the morning if we are on a car journey.

I try to avoid her having a morning nap as I know it will affect her afternoon sleep at 1.30ish - she has 1.5 to 2 hours, and goes to bed at 7ish - she is 18mns old.

I think that your ds is going through a kind of transitional period where he can't quite manage to go without a nap in the morning - but sounds nearly ready.

Perhaps you could have a quiet time around 10ish when he used to nap, where you could sit with him and read and perhaps have a snack and juice while he recharges his batteries.
HTH

My ds is nearly a year and still needs a morning nap. I have found that the length of his naps is quite variable, sometimes he has stretches when he doesn't nap well and both am and pm naps tend to be shorter than he really needs. I don't as a rule wake him up from a nap (his tendency has always been for too little rather than too much daytime sleep, so I never deliberately shorten his sleep!), and strangely I find that a longer morning nap often means a longer lunchtime nap - and even a better bedtime.

If ds wakes 'too soon' during his lunchtime nap (often after 45 mins actual sleep) I leave him for 5-10 mins and he will sometimes settle himself back to sleep for another good chunk. Not sure if that suggestion will help for your ds, but if he is still tired after the lunchtime nap perhaps he is rousing after one sleep cycle and needs to try and get back to sleep again.

I think your instinct that he still needs the am sleep is probably right - FWIW the sleep book I use suggests that babies drop this nap between 13 and 21 months, and GF suggests 12-18 months - but I think its more important to go with your own observations of ds. It might be worth sticking with your current routine and see if he settles back to a longer nap.
HTH

I stopped ds's morning nap at about thirteen months as he was singing and shouting through the afternoon nap time and decided that it would be better to go down to one nap a day.

I brought lunch forward to 11.30am and then he goes down at 12-12.15-ish for a good hour and a half (two hours and counting today!)

HTH

Stopped at 15 months with DS and DD just turned 15 months 2 days ago and I am thinking I might need to drop it becasue she fall asleep at 1030.... so this has a knock on effect for the lunch nap which now starts at 1400 earliest !

I do think 10 months is a wee bit young... but every child is different.

Is the house quiet and the room fairly dark ?
What time does he get up in the morning ?

This morning he woke at 6.45..nap at 9.30 for 15 mins...fine the rest of morning...bed at 12.30...awake at 1.20...checked bum...fine..left him but didn't go back to sleep...when I went in again about 2.10 (just left him in cot for quiet time) he had done poo! He is teething again at the moment (top teeth this time!) but no screaming or bed time problems so not sure what to do..!

Ds2 has a nap still in the morning at almost 21months. He sleeps for anything up to 2 hours! Then he has a shorter nap about 4pm, and goes to bed at 8.30. Ds1 is only just outgrowing his afternoon nap at the age of 4 (in a few weeks).

My ds has a late morning nap for about 1.5 hours, and no afternoon nap, unless he has been using a lot of energy. If we are out in the am, and he misses his sleep, he has a post-lunch nap, again for about 1.5 hours. He is usually in bed by 7.30pm, and goes through to 7.30am, so this pattern does not affect his night sleeping.

I say, if he is tired in the morning, let him sleep. There is no law that says he HAS to sleep in the pm. Your ds knows what he wants, so go with the flow, these things usually sort themselves out IME.

You can try putting them down for a nap on, say, only two out of three days, and see what happens. Sometimes they can manage to go for one or two days without the nap but it catches up with them a day or two later. My dd gave up all naps at just over 12mths but she went in her cot anyway and sang and played on her own for an hour. HTH

Thanks for all your comments. If I left my ds to sleep in the morning then he would sleep for 45 mins and that is all...nothing else all day which would mean a very over-tired ds at bedtime!

I think he is just in this in-between time between still needing the sleep and not so I shall just keep up the 15mins in the morning and encourage more movement to wear him out..he is almost 10months and not crawling so just doesnt need as much sleep i think!

It sounds like Suedonim's idea might work well then. I think most people go through this in-between phase.