Dropping to one nap

[rbp]

Is it possible that M is trying to drop his afternoon nap at 9 mo? This seems awfully young, but the past couple of weekends he's taken a long morning nap (2-3 hours)and refused anything besides a 30-min catnap thereafter. I thought maybe we had thrown off his schedule by being out when he was ready to go down, but today the nanny reported that he took a long morning nap and wouldn't take an afternoon nap at all. This makes evenings rough, but I guess if this is happening then I need to get him in bed earlier at night?

[Deleted]

This is what dd2 did at about the same age. We moved naptime a bit later and bedtime earlier while she transitioned.

[rugbywife]

Apr 28, 2015 19:13:41 GMT -5 @lauralynne said:

DS dropped to one nap at 4 months so 9 months isn't outside the realm of possibilities...

Holy crap!!!

[aspentosh]

It seems young, but definitely possible. We did what page did to help the transition.

And holy crap @lauralynne!

[kermit]

I wonder if this is what K is doing. She took long morning naps both weekend days and shorter afternoon naps. Daycare says she's not napping well and has been fussy. I thought it was because she has several teeth coming in but I also wondered about the nap thing. It would be so nice to get down to one nap.

[dcrunnergirl52]

It's possible. What happens if you keep the morning nap to just 2 hours. When we were on two naps, I didn't let them sleep longer than 2 hours in the morning b/c it screwed with sleep the rest of the day.

[rbp]

The problem is that he gets sleepy SO EARLY in the morning. We have music class Saturdays at 10:30 and he gets SO CRANKY because he wants to be sleeping. His natural schedule is to nap like 10-12:30, but that's a long stretch to be awake in the afternoon. I don't know how to make the nap happen later!

[indylady]

rbp, this is what DS is doing! He will try to sleep 2 hours in the morning and then no nap in the afternoon. And then by bedtime, he's a beast. I never know if I should wake him up earlier in the morning or let him sleep.

Does anyone's kid take their 1/day nap in the morning? Is that normal?

[formerlyllizzyb]

I would just limit his morning nap to one hour for a couple of months and then re-evaluate. Another way to ease the transition is to do a single nap around 11 and a super early bedtime.

[shelbyann]

DD dropped to one nap at 10 months so not totally crazy!

And yes she would want to take it around 10 am. It seemed crazy to me that she'd only be awake for like 3 hours before her nap, then go 7+ until bedtime, but it worked so we rolled with it. The nap has been slowly getting later and now at 14 months it's finally consistently around 12-1 pm instead of late morning.

[sunshine608]

When we went through that we pushed the afternoon nap back. it's now 4/5pm which sucks but its the only way to get a nap. Bedtime is 8:00-8:30 which seemed to short a time for him to be up based on the 2/3/4 schedule but it's what works for him/us.

[meij]

That was the age DS dropped to one nap. It was nice because he went from a 30 min morning nap and a 1 hour afternoon nap to a 2-3hr afternoon nap. He was sleeping something like 9:30-10 and 2-3/3:30 so we sort of met in the middle and he'd go down around noon. It's gradually gotten back to 1:30/2 now, but for the transition, going down for one nap in the middle of his former two nap times helped.

[momin2013]

Absolutely possible. DS dropped to one nap around that age, and dropped his nap completely around 22 months. 

[bullsgirl]

My DD, 9.5 months, has done this a few times. If she naps a long time in the morning she doesn't want to nap in the afternoon. At first I was afraid she would be a beast in the late afternoon, but she was totally fine. I am hoping we can lose that 2nd nap permanently soon.

[greencrayon]

A dropped her second nap at 9 months. It's actually not too bad. It's 2-3 hours at 11:30 or noon. It allowed us to do things in the morning and the evening without worrying about a second nap.

[rex]

L napped 2hrs in the am and 30-45 min in the afternoon until 16 months. I would just roll with it. she was also already going to bed at 6pm lol