https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 28 May 2026 06:36:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651694 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:19:19 +0000 Honeybee 651694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS will be 1 in a few days and he has been trying to drop his morning nap for almost a month now. It really surprised me because DD didn't drop her morning nap completely until 20/21 months! But about a month ago DS started seriously fighting his second nap of the day. He'd go down fine for his morning nap, I'd wake him after an hour like usual, and then it would take 1.5-2 hours to rock him to sleep for his afternoon nap. Just this weekend we decided to just go ahead and change his schedule, and it's been working really well. He sleeps 11 hours at night, gets up around 6:30, goes down for a nap around 12, sleeps 3 hours, and then goes down for the night around 7:30. It's a big change from my DD who still needs a ridiculous amount of sleep, even at almost 3, but every kid is different!</p> <p>I would try out the one nap a day schedule for a week and see how it goes. You can always switch back to two naps if she doesn't respond well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651679 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:12:28 +0000 Mrs. Bee 651679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Weagle: you can definitely wake her up earlier. in fact that's what we did with olive to make sure she was getting 2 naps at daycare. when she woke up at her usual 8-8:30, it was too late for her to get two naps. so i would wake her up at 7 (sucked, but she really needed the 2 naps). now we're back to an 8:15 wakeup since she's down to 1 nap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651669 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:08:20 +0000 mossyslane 651669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Increasing morning wake time to three hours really worked for us recently (though we DO miss all of the storytimes, etc. which is such a bummer). I tried putting her down early yesterday (after only 2 hours) since we had a drs. appt, and she had a full-on rodeo in there--crawling around, singing, yelling, etc., for 45 mins. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651655 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:04:43 +0000 brownie 651655@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would suspect a wonder week (the 9 month one lasted forever for us). We didn't drop the morning nap until like 18 months old. </p> <p>If it is a wonder week, a little shorter wake time was always good for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651651 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:02:40 +0000 Weagle 651651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: Occasionally, like once a month. She's the worst for keeping up a "bad" habit. By that I mean she can't :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651644 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:01:17 +0000 Weagle 651644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: We do. She's great about calming down for her nap, just not going to sleep. "Bad" habits only work occasionally, so we can't even resort to those! What if I try making sure she's up by 7 then waiting 2.5 hours before the first nap? It breaks my "never wake a sleeping baby" rule, but I'm really not willing to give up activities that we have planned. They are what keeps me sane! And most are with babies that are all napping around the same, normal nap time so we can't really reschedule just for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651636 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:58:35 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 651636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does she fall asleep for naps if you rock her? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651617 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:52:28 +0000 Mrs. Bee 651617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Weagle: i just looked at olive's monthly updates for months 10-11, and she was awake 2.5 hours before her morning nap. she slept 12-14 hours at night. she only dropped her morning nap this past week at 17 months, and we had to push her to do it.</p> <p>do you have a strong nap routine? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651611 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:48:58 +0000 Weagle 651611@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: I've tried that once, but I haven't again because it didn't work. But I know consistency is key. I'm hoping that's not the case because It would really mess with things like playgroup and story time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651598 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:45:02 +0000 Mrs. Bee 651598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe 2 hours isn't a long enough awake time in the morning since she's getting so much sleep at night? You could push her to 2.5 hours... Possibly 3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/please-help-me-think-through-this-nap-problem#post-651590 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:41:38 +0000 Weagle 651590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My sweet, lovely, wonderful, smart 10 month old daughter has always been a terrible napper, and I wonder if she's trying to drop her first nap. She fights it like crazy, often alternating crying (more just yelling) and playing in her crib (I leave her there for 45 minutes unless she starts to really cry). </p> <p>Since daylight saints we've been trying an 8-8 schedule (previously 7 or 7:30- 7). She does great with the later bedtime. She STTN and either wakes by herself at 7 (up for the day) or she will wake up at 6, come to bed with me, and then sleep until at least 8. </p> <p>These are the possible issues I've narrowed it down to:<br /> 1: Hungry- the child eats as much as I do for breakfast lunch and dinner. I don't think this is it.<br /> 2: overtired- maybe, but she sleeps 11-12 hours/night and I put her down no later than 2 hours after waking. Usually earlier.<br /> 3: teething- she's been teething for months. It's never affected her sleep before.<br /> 4: growth spurt- possible, but a two week long one?<br /> 5: dropping the morning nap- I know it's early, but based on her normal # of sleeping hours I think it could be possible. She actually does pretty well without a morning nap when we have to do that. According to my mom, I stopped morning naps around this age.</p> <p>Any ideas? Has anyone else had a baby drop the morning nap this early? </p>