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When did your LO drop to 1 nap? 17 months

How did you know it was time? She was doing it naturally and not being a pill about it. She'd transition by taking one nap for two or three days, then need two naps....then go back and forth until she just was on one good, two hour nap, nap all the time.

Did the drop to 1 nap seem "on schedule" with when they dropped other naps, or did it seem early/late? Daycare said it was normal....that's about all i knew about it.

@Mae: Naps have always been pretty rigidly scheduled because of daycare doing that, and we try to keep that going at home. I'm guessing T probably attempted to put her down for a nap and she wouldn't nap, so she'd scrap the nap (if she cries, she wakes up the other kids), but then she'd go down at noon instead of the previous 9am and 2pm nap times. Sort of a "if 9am doesn't work, we'll try noon." method?

12 months at day care but she still needed 2 on the weekends till about 14/15 months.

I think it was about a year for my dd too!

It just got so difficult to get her down for two and then bed that I decided it wasn't worth it, and she seemed fine with it.

Maybe at around 14-15 months or so he completely dropped to one. Before then he would take two naps every so often and just gradually dropped to the one.

He was always very inconsistent with naps and I don't remember when he dropped other naps.

@2littlepumpkins: @Mamasig: when your LO was transitioning to one nap, did you initially start the nap earlier, like 11-11:30ish, then gradually move the nap time later? or did you just push your LO to stay awake till 12-1ish and start the nap then?
also, how does lunch fit into all of this? If nap starts at 11 and they sleep till 1 (hopefully!!), is it better to feed a late morning snack or just a late lunch when they get up? I'm probably overthinking this.

12 months! We did it because his naps sucked. And often he wouldn't be ready to go down until 11! And then need another nap at 3. So we now do nap at 1230ish. Bed at 730 ish. Up at 630ish.

11 mo. I read all the sleep blogs that said that's unlikely but it was actually impossible to get get down for both naps. The first one would push the second one to 4-5pm and then she'd be up till 9pm. 1 was much more functional.

Both girls dropped to 1 nap at 11 months. I didn't really do anything myself, I just followed their signs. They started completely refusing their second nap, so I started keeping them up just a little bit later and only doing one nap. This meant an earlier bedtime. It worked better for everyone.

Around 14 months. Our nannies daughter was two months older and it was hard to have them on different schedules. She had already started giving us a hard time with her second nap - falling asleep at five of six after refusing earlier. We kept her up with really fun morning activities and she made the transition easily in a week or so.

Around 16 months--he would still take his morning nap no problem but was refusing his afternoon nap. It was a long painful transition for us, since he couldn't really last past 10 or 10:30 for a long time, so he would nap from 10-12, and then be exhausted by 6, 6:30. He was also waking up around 6:30. Over 3 or 4 months, he eventually moved to being able to nap around 12:30-2:30, and by 2 he was napping from 1-3. I just really tried to keep him busy in the mornings, but didn't push him too hard and just resigned myself to early bedtime if nap was early.

@Rainbow Sprinkles: @hilsy85: When you had to put LO to bed early because of nap refusals, did they sleep longer overnight to compensate, or did they end up waking up earlier the following morning?
I'm scared of early (or, earlier than they already are) morning wakeup, so if I put LO down earlier, it's only like 30 minutes earlier.

When did your LO drop to 1 nap? About 14 months

How did you know it was time? She was stretching her awake time so she wasn't ready for a morning nap until 10am or later, and then her afternoon nap wouldn't be until 3pm or later, and then bedtime was like 9pm! When we tested out one nap, she also started sleeping longer at naptime, so it seemed to me she was ready to consolidate.

Did the drop to 1 nap seem "on schedule" with when they dropped other naps, or did it seem early/late? She has always dropped naps on the early side but I also would push her to it when she started acting ready because I couldn't handle the in-between stage. I just would rip off the bandaid even if it meant some cranky days and early bedtimes as she adjusted. I think 14 months was on the early side but we were actually on the late side for my Oct 2013 due date group.

My LO is 11 months old and only takes one short nap. About an hour or less. She kind of dropped her second nap on her own. She's exhausted by the end of the day and has been going to bed earlier.

@Mae: I also thought 11 months was early, but every baby is different. My DS didn't really give me a choice anyway, he just flat out refused to take 2 naps once he turned 11 months.

I didn't read all the replies, but lo is in between 1 and 2 naps right now at 12.5 months. Around 10 months, she dropped to 1 nap at daycare-- they are flexible about nap times so they were really following her cues, the though 1 nap also works better with their schedule in that she used to take her first nap during circle and "outing"/small group activity time, and 1 nap means she gets to do those. At home, she almost always takes 2 naps but they're both shorter. I follow her cues though so the time and length all vary