10mo naps and early rising

[mrsflux]

Ds has always been a 3 naps a day sort of boy. Even now he sleeps at 9, 1 and 4 ish. I'm sure he'll need to drop one at some point but I don't think he'll want to on his own.
I wouldn't worry but he now wakes at 5 ready for the day!
we've tried limiting his day time sleep but no difference.

Can I cut out a nap?
Will it help?
How can I do it?

He usually sleeps from 7-7.30ish at night till 5 with a couple of noisy moments at most.
I know I shouldn't complain but the early starts are killing me especially when I'm at work.

Anyone?

We have a similar problem but DS hasn't had a 4pm nap for a while now and we are just about to drop the 9am nap so he will just have two hours at lunchtime... He goes down around 7pm and now wakes at 5am and we struggle to keep him in his cot until 6.30am and so perhaps he doesn't need so much sleep during the day. Also he seems more hungry so I think they go through a growth spurt at this stage, he seems to drain his milk much easier nowadays....!

Hello. I sympathise. I have no advice as am in similar situation myself...I started this thread and the advice has been really sound so far. But I do wonder of 3 naps are a bit much?

gotta go

My 13 month old son moved to a nap at 10.30am and 3 pm only at about your child's age.

I know it won't be long until he goes down to a 2 hour nap at lunch, but he's not quite there yet.

Try him on a different nap routine and see how it goes.

DS2 is 9mo and dropped hs third nap by about 4/5mo. He wakes around 7.30 and naps around 10 and 2 for an hour-ish, then in bed by 7.30. Hth