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I dropped T to a 1 nap schedule at 10 mo. Game changer. She sleeps more hours in the day now. STTN 12-14 hours.

Ugh that sounds like it is just a phase. DS has had months where he would wake at 5:30 or 6, and months where he wakes at 7. He has had the same bedtime forever (6:30). We basically just insist he stays in bed till 6:30, but we can't control when he wakes up.

That being said, does she seem like she is learning something new? Sometimes kid's sleep good to crap when they are learning a new skill.

DD is an early riser! Doesn't matter if I put her to bed at 7 or 8 is usually up by 6-6:30

We had many 5:30/5:40 mornings
It's awful!
Keep doing what you ate doing many leaps at 10 months

@Littlebit7: 10 months is way too early to go to one nap. 1 year is really the earliest and average is 15 months!
Anytime this has happened we actually did an EARLIER bedtime and it corrected. It seems counterproductive but there is TONS of supporting literature that earlier bedtime can lead to better sleep and later wake ups.

If that's not it then I would say it's for sure a phase. Keep things as constant as possible! My son has definitely thrown me for the "is he ready for 1 nap?" loop a few times and it was always a phase. Within 3 weeks or so he went back to his normal nap and night time schedule with no prompting from me.

@brownepiano: I agree that it sounds like a phase. We have this happen for a few days to a week at a time and then it just stops. We won't go in her room before 6 am unless she is truly crying.

Ugh that's early, I feel for you! It could definetly be a phase but for some perspective, DS (11.5 months) dropped to one nap on his own at 9 months. He wakes up around 730am, he falls asleep by 11:30am, takes a 2ish hour nap and then goes to bed at about 630-645. I couldn't believe he dropped it that early. I was in denial and kept trying to force him to take a nap earlier and he was NOT having it. If not a phase, maybe that late nap is the culprit?

I have an awesome sleeper at 9.5 months, usually sleeps 7:30p to 8:30a or later. Suddenly the past few weeks she is waking at 3am some nights and we've almost always heard from her by 6am. I think it's just a phase. It can be attributed to teething, a growth spurt, a Wonder Week....There are so many things.

With my first, I wanted to figure out the answer to everything she did - especially when it involved sleep! But with the second, I just accept that everything will change, and phases are temporary. She's been an awesome sleeper since she was 6w old, so nothing in me thinks this is her new normal.

Sometimes their brains are just so busy with all of the new things they are learning. It affects their sleep cycles. DD2's MOTN wake ups have coincided with her new obsession with pulling up and standing. And speed crawling, lol. So I'm just chalking it up to that probably, or to teething pain.

ETA: I wouldn't drop a nap yet. DD1 got put on a 1 nap schedule at 1 yr with day care. DD2 is with a nanny all day, so her schedule is her schedule, and I don't plan to change anything about it until after she's at least a year old.

We had phases like that too. After DST DD was waking at 6am, then eventually, before Christmas, she went back to waking around 7am, lately she's back to waking at 6-6:30am. She only sleeps like 10 hours at night, doesn't matter if she had 1 or 2 naps that day!

I usually just let it go if she's not fighting naps/bedtime or isn't waking up upset.

My first was up before 6 every day until he turned 14 months. When we finally put him on one nap he slept a little later 730-6 or 630 instead of 730-530. He never took a monster nap though and was almost always crabby after his nap.

Our second is a little better, but is almost always up by 630 - he's 14m and on 2 naps. There was a phase from like 6-9 months were he would have a night waking AND be up for the day by 530-6. Brutal. My kids just don't sleep as much as other kids!

is there any way to make the 2nd nap earlier? so they are more tired at bedtime ? i found that a 2/3/4 hours awake sched really worked at this age. also, around 10/11 months there is definitely a sleep regression and it will go back to normal...and if it doesn't soon, there's always the time change coming up!

@Modern Daisy: can I ask how old your lo is now? And when did they start to sleep a little later?