Too early to transition for 2 naps to 1?

[flyingmama94]

My daughter is turning one this week and just in the past few weeks we have noticed she fights her afternoon nap. She normally sleeps from 7-7 which is a blessing and I am lucky 👏🏼 I would normally put her down at 10:30am and she would sleep no longer than an hour. When it comes for another nap I would say 2pm (ish) and I would only let her sleep an hour. But she is not having it and gets herself all worked up and resit her sleep (She has been sleep trained and took it very well)
I thought about just one long nap in the day but don’t want her wake windows to be too long and by late afternoon she can’t handle it and becomes over tired. They suggest not dropping the 2nd nap until 15 months - any help/suggestions or personal experience send me way please 🙏🏼

you need to cap the morning nap, so change the schedule to this:
7am wake
10 - 10.30am nap 1
1.30 - 3pm nap 2
7pm bedtime

Over time you reduce the morning nap until it is just 10 mins then you drop it completely and shift the lunchtime nap to 12-2

That makes sense I will see how it goes. When they are on one longer nap in the day, what time would you do lunch?

My first two transitioned to one nap at 9 months and 10 months. Their morning nap was a pram nap so totally optional for them, and they both ditched it of their own accord and then thrived on one longer nap after lunch. They're all different!

You do lunch at 11.30 for a few months and then they move to a 12 lunch over time.

I’ve never really understood the whole nap schedule thing. Mine just stopped napping at 18 months (unless they were ill) and that was the end of that. Both good sleepers at night (unless in an a regression) and went to bed early to compensate.

Both mine were definitely younger than 12 months dropping to 1 nap. Probably did it around 9 months

@flyingmama94 the first nap sounds quite late at 10.30, when my DS was having two naps he would be up at 7am and back down before 10am, like pp says I would cap this. Then back down about 1pm.

He started to move to 1 nap when he went to nursery at 13 months, his schedule was a bit all over the place for a couple of weeks but now he’s up between 6-7, naps at 12 for 2-3 hours then back in bed at 7pm. He has lunch before his nap at 12 then a snack when he wakes up. At nursery he has dinner around 4pm and sometimes eats again when he gets home, weekends he just has lunch about 12 then snack when he wakes up and dinner with us at 6 ish.

Some babies just don't need the naps. DS wouldn't take more than one nap, and rarely more than an hour after about 10mo.

Sadly, takes after me....

Who is "they" with the suggested nap details? All babies are different, they will show you how much sleep they need and what works best for them (and the rest of the family unit). My 11 mo occasionally already only has 1 nap if he has quite a late and long AM nap. It's not great those days because getting to bed time is a struggle and overall he's not ready to routinely make it to after lunch for one nap. But I can't wait til he can because it's so much more flexible than 2 nap days. My elder two we used to have lunch around midday then they'd sleep 1-2.30 or 3. I'd wake them at 3.30 if they had a mammoth nap so they'd be tired at bedtime which was around 7 or 7.30. As they got older eventually the nap would start later, 1.30, then 2 and I'd eventually wake them by 3. Until it became 30-45 cat naps othereise interfering with bedtime at age 3 and then sacked it off when it became inconvenient.