When did your LO drop their morning nap? and was there a period of horrendous-ness when they did?!

[Caz10]

DD is 12.5mths and until very recently has always needed a nap approx 2-3hrs after 1st wakening in the morning. She can be a very early riser, so sometimes eg we'll have a 5.30 start, she's exhausted by 8am and back up from her 1st nap by 9am! It's quite convenient tbh as it means that she is then up for about 4hrs and you have a full morning to get stuff done etc.

However she's started not falling asleep at morning nap time (she normally gets taken out in the pram with whoever is walking the dog and goes out like a light)so I presume she is just getting ready to drop this nap. But she is sooooooooooo tired and grumpy all morning! Today she woke up at 7am which is pretty late for her, no nap, so went on out and met a friend etc - she was a nightmare, so tired, wasn't her normal cheery chatty self at all. She went for a massive 2 hour sleep at midday which was a bonus, but the morning was a disaster! Is this just going to be a phase until she gets a bit more "stamina", for want of a better word?

Hi Caz10, DS2 is also 12.5 months and has just dropped his morning nap. We did have a couple of days where he refused a morning nap but couldn't quite make it to lunchtime happily but it only lasted for about 2-3 days and now he usually sleeps 1.5-2 hours at lunchtime with the added bonus that he is now sleeping in until after 7 in the mornings. On days where he seems more tired than normal I give him a really early lunch (around 11ish) and get him into bed before 12. HTH

It does help! Glad it only lasted a few days. DD has of course bucked the trend and had a late morning nap and still had her 2hrs this afternoon...hmmm really hoping that doesn't mean no sleep tonight!

Did you have to purposely avoid putting your ds down for a morning nap to get into the new routine, ie keep him awake? Or did he really do it on his own?

my dd is 12.5 months and still has a morning nap, but dropped her afternoon nap several months ago now

it would take her ages to go to sleep and then she'd be up again 15 minutes later, so in the end i just stopped putting her down. it took a few days or maybe a couple of weeks for her to get used to it, but actually she wasn't too bad - bit grumpy here and there, but not mayhem, as i had expected

my dd actively resisted going to sleep in the afternoon when she was ready, so i didn't think of it as keeping her awake iyswim

mine had longest nap in morning from 4 mths 9.30-12.30 Short nap from 3.30-4.15
Until 12mths he'd go from 11-3 in one go
Now 21mths he is 1-3
This only really settled once he started sleeping through regularly at 16mths

14 months but yes there was a period of horribleness where he'd get over tired and wake even earlier (4:30am!!!!) so he'd need 2 naps somedays and be really grumpy on others. he seems to be sorted now though at 16 months. x

Hi caz10, he started waking up slightly later in the mornings - around 7-7.30am and then started refusing a morning nap. I still kept putting him down at around 9.30am but if he didn't fall asleep after 15 mins I would get him up and carry on the morning as usual, so I suppose he did drop the nap on his own I didn't really force it. Now he is in the habit of only having 1 sleep a day and can cope fine until lunchtime.