GF Mums - What age did your baby cut out the morning nap?

[Jasmum]

My DD who is a GF baby used to sleep for 30-45mins in the mroning & then 2 hours at lunchtime going down anytime between 12.15 & 1.00pm. Over the last week or so putting her down in the morning is getting worse & worse, she yells & crawls all over her cot & then sits in the corner sucking her thumb...all very cute but I'm wondering if she just doesn't need this morning nap anymore. SHe does seem genuinley tired but just won't go to sleep wihtout at least half an hour of crying & me going in at least 5 times to lay her back down. A couple of times she's toppled over whilst sitting in her cot & banged her head on the side & that creates more crying so I feel I have to go in & lay her back down. What does everyone else do at this stage. BTW this has all coincided with her crawling!

Sorry to be dense - what's a GF baby?

you don't say how old she is, jasmum, but i would say it probably doesn't matter...

i think you have answered your own question here... how about not putting her down for her morning nap tomorrow and seeing how she goes? if she gets totally frantic and grumpy, maybe she is overtired and still needs the nap. if she seems fine, then you probably have your answer!

hth.

Jasmum - my DD was around 18 months when she finally gave up (or I finally lost the pleasure of!) the morning nap. She had been fighting it for a while, then we went on holiday and there were far too many exciting things going on!

Sounds as though your DD is dropping heavy hints about not needing the nap - I guess all you can do is try a few days without it and see what happens?

GF = Gina Ford, author of The Contented Little Baby Book (TCLBB).

Jasmum, I can't remember the age ds was when he cut out his morning nap, but like your dd he just didn't seem to want to settle anymore. It went from every day to every other, to maybe once or twice a week if I was lucky, to cutting out completly. I think you just have to be lead by dd here, and if she doen't seem to want a nap then let her play. Is she still sleeping Ok at lunchtime?
runragged - GF is Gina Ford.

Oh sorry, is it Gina Ford? Sorry no idea about this philosophy but my two just had a really long sleep late morning by about8/9 months. It played havoc with lunch time but within a month they were going for a long sleep around 12.30 which gave me time to shovel some food in. Hope this helps.

I posted on this recently as I too was wondering as my DS started cutting down on lunchtime nap. We then reduced morning nap to 15 min power nap at about 13 months (can't really remember exactly) and then cut out totally about a couple of months ago (he is now 16 1/2 months). Was difficult at first and does still get tired mid morning so we have rest time (tv or going for a walk) which gets him through it

Both mine dropped it at 18 months and still had 2 hours + at lunchtime.
HTH

My DD is only 8.5mths. She didn't have the morning nap today as I had to go out at 10am & it just wasn't going to happen so today was an experiment & she didn't get her lunchtime nap till 12.45 which then took her 30mins to settle. Yesterday was 40mins! I had to wake her up at 2.45 today for docs appt. so she had less then 2 hours sleep all day...which I don't mind but I worry this may start to affect her night time sleep. Tonight she went down at 7 & I haven't heard a peep from her which makes a change though.
As I said this has all coincided with her crawling & learning to sit from crawling position & now all she wants to do is stand so she goes onto her knees & grips the side of the cot. Should I leave her to lay down on her own or should I go in & lay her back down till she gets the message? At the moment I'm going in & laying her down but I have to do this at least 5 or 6 times, but I'm worried she'll fall over & bang her head again if I don't!!!

My ds wasn't GF but went from two naps to one at around 15 months. Though he always went down better in the morning and it was the afternoon nap that got dropped/resisted..... Your dd sounds quite young to go down to one sleep (though they are all different) and since her change in behaviour has coincided with crawling, it may be related to that rather than her truly not needing the sleep - personally I would err on the side of keeping the nap going.
Once ds was mobile I didn't worry too much whether he was lying down when I left him. HTH

Jasmum is your dd still having an afternoon nap? I know my ds dropped his morning nap quite early, but still had an afternoon nap, from 4 till 4.30 ish I think.

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