From 2 naps to 1

[ladygrey]

At what age did your kid do this? How did you know they were ready? Any tips to make the transition (especially if you SAH and/or didn't rely on daycare to do it)?

[dcrunnergirl52]

16 months for my older kids

[djc315]

At 19 months, my kid hasn't fully dropped his morning nap. When I'm at home with him, he usually will take 2 naps, still.

[lmb5109]

Right before she turned 17 months. She was staying awake during her morning nap in the crib and just playing or babbling so the DC lady (she's in an in-home) tried a few days of not putting her down for the morning nap and I did the same thing on the weekend. It was a rough 2 weeks but finally she adjusted. Her afternoon nap is only 90 minutes at DC but over 2 hours at home.

[Deleted]

Dd dropped from two to one at about 14 months. They still offer a morning nap, but she usually refuses.

She's a champion napper on the weekends. She slept from 11:30am to 4:30pm last Saturday!

[DarcyLongfellow]

I'm sort of transitioning DD2 now. Really, I'm just doing whatever is convenient for me :-) On days that I want to go out for a lot of the day and do fun stuff, I keep her up and she takes one nap, usually starting at 1 or 2, and she'll sleep for around 2.5 hours. If we're home and she's getting cranky, I'll still put her down around 10, then let her take a second nap around 3. Those are usually an hour or an hour and a half each.

I just follow her clues -- recently she's started not being as cranky if she misses that morning nap, so I've started having her skip it sometimes.

DD1 also dropped the second nap around a year.

[Brie]

He went down to one at daycare around 11 months when he moved to the toddler room. He still took two naps at home on weekends until closer to 15-16 months.

[dcn]

He did it the week he turned 15 months. It took about a month to fully transition to one long nap. He started just refusing his pm nap. No interest at all. I sah at that time so I did my best to keep him up in the am until 11 or so at first and he would nap an hour or 90 min if i was lucky. I didn't go anywhere where we would be in the car between 10 and 11 bc that would always make him fall asleep and ruin any chance for a nap later.

I gradually moved nap time later until we got to 12:30 or 1. He now naps 1.5-2.5 hours at home. Less at daycare.

[Deleted]

It looks like he's doing it now at daycare at 12 months but I hope he'll still give us two on the weekends.

[redpenmama]

14 months. I much, much prefer the one nap a day. DD transitioned to it gradually on her own -- just refused the morning nap over the course of 4-6 weeks and moved into a longer afternoon one.

[Deleted]

Right before a year old. She started getting really hard to put down for her afternoon nap or just not napping at all.
I started pushing her morning nap back by like a half hour every couple days and then not pushing the afternoon nap so hard. Soon she was napping at 1130/12 but not very long, eventually they got longer though.

Now at 26m she goes down anytime between 12-1 (depending on our day) and sleeps 1.5-2.5 hours.

[countthestars]

DD is all over the place - almost always 2 at daycare and usually 1 at home.

Eta: she's 11 months

[twinkiemom]

I have 16 month old twins. DS started skipping naps just before 12 months. I refused to believe he was ready for one nap but just after their first birthday I trialed one nap for him and it was exactly what he needed. DD was so not ready but I SAH and needed them to be on the same schedule so I forced her to one nap. I felt a little bad fot her but they nap 2-3 hours and it's so much better for me.

[carolinagirl831]

Dd did this around 12 months. She used to take a morning nap and afternoon around an hour each. Now she takes one long nap 2-4 hours. I prefer the one nap, makes things easier. She just naturally did it. She went down for her morning naps and slept longer, she didn't need the afternoon nap then.

[greycat]

Around a year but it was kind of sucky. DS will often fall asleep in the car so I would avoid driving anywhere until after he took his nap. He still occasionally takes a morning nap like today. Now he naps after lunch, usually around 1pm. Sometimes I put him down before lunch if he's tired. He is 15 mo now.

[loskadoodle]

We forced him to 1 nap at around 20 months. It was miserable for about a month but now it's great. Most days he sleeps for about 2.5 hrs.

[jinxy]

Around 14 months. At the time my dad was watching him so similar to a SAH environment. DS started fighting his morning nap, or if he did fall asleep it was for less than 30 minutes. We just followed his cues and stopped offering a morning nap and then moved up his afternoon nap to right after lunch. He's still on this schedule at 23 months.

I do remember he was crabby as we transitioned because he was tired by lunch but if he fell asleep before eating he didn't take as long of a nap. Then the rest of the day was miserable because he was so tired.

[schrodinger]

DD transitioned to one nap around 9 or 10 months. It was a really sudden change, one day she was doing two naps just fine, and the next day she refused her morning nap.

[mommytutu]

We forced it at 12 months. I couldn't leave the house because someone was always sleeping. My 2nd naps from 12-2 so I put DS on the same nap time and moved his bedtime to 7. It works for him.

[robot]

Jun 6, 2014 14:13:01 GMT -5 @this said:

Ugh, we're struggling with this too. She's down to one at daycare, but weekends she still wants to nap early (like 10) and then refuses to nap for the rest of the day and is OUT OF HER MIND by 6 or so. And her naps are usually only an hour!

As of 15 months, we have the exact opposite problem - one nice nap at home on weekends; but still taking a morning nap at daycare, which makes it hard to fit in a second nap at home...resulting in either no pm nap, and super grouchy, or pm nap and up too late. If they try to put her down for one mid-day nap, she only sleeps 30 minutes, which is even worse, since that will be only 30 min napping ALL DAY LONG.   The 2 to 1 nap transition has not been pretty this time around!   I'm hoping we'll do better when she moves to the room where all the toddlers nap at one time soon.

In general though, I try to do fun or distracting things around 10 or 11 am, to help keep her awake til after lunch - take her outside to play, snack, etc.  That sometimes helps with getting to one good nap.

[turtlegirl]

Both my boys were around 14-15 months old when they dropped the am nap.

It took another month or two for that nap to lengthen past 1-1.5 hours, but it eventually got to the point of a nice 2-3 hr afternoon nap.

[kangaroo11]

We just did this and finally are settled at one nap now (16.5 months). There were a few weeks of two naps one day and then one the next. I just followed her lead and if she seemed tired, she went into the crib. Eventually, she stopped falling asleep if it was too early, so I'd let her out and try again in 1.5-2 hours.

[smm5623]

Just before a year.