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I probably wouldn't force it because it may make his sleep even worse. Transitioning to 1 nap can be really hard and a long process.

My son started transitioning himself around 11 months, but even with 1 nap it wasn't very long - it took him awhile to adjust.

Now he's 18 months and takes one 3 hour nap everyday.

I resisted one nap for weeks after she was giving me signs that she was ready. She would take a great morning nap but frequently refuse the afternoon nap even though she was clearly tired, so she would end up being awake from 11-7, which was way too long for her (or me). So I gradually pushed the morning nap later and later and gave up on the afternoon nap. For a while it was wonderful and she would sleep for 2-3 hours, but lately now her one nap is often under an hour and a half. She seems fine, actually, but mama needs a longer break than that! She went to one nap around 14 months, is 18 months now.

At 12 months DS was forced to one nap when he started daycare. It took a few weeks for him to adjust and weekends during that phase he still had two naps. But once he adjusted he started napping better than he ever had.

I didn't, but that's because she was pretty happy with two naps until recently. I think we switched to 1 nap right around 18 months old.

Now that we're on 1 nap, her night sleep is still hit or miss, so it didn't solve any issues there.

Lots of kids in daycare do! E didn't drop it until about 16 months, though

Basically. She was mostly ready, but she will still fall asleep in the car if she has been up for 3 hours, even if it before naptime or she already had her nap. So I think we could still do 2 naps, but bedtime was getting later & later. Now she is READY for bed by 7:30 and sleeps better at night.

We kind of had to. DS goes to daycare and his sleep was awful for like 6 months in the infant room. That room was just always loud and chaotic - I was in there once in the middle of the day trying to get DS to nap and babies were crying, teachers were talking at normal voices, water running in the sink (and then got plugged and ran over) teaching were coming in and out, slamming the door. It was insanity.

The daycare director said the best solution was to move him to the toddler room where they have one nap time and everyone's quiet during that time. So instead of trying to get 2 crappy naps out of him, and end up getting 1 crappy nap, he gets one decent to really good nap.

When he's at home if he's up early we do 2 naps. If he's up late, like today (8:45) we do 1 nap at 12, just like school.

She switched to the toddler room at daycare at 14 months and transitioned to 1 nap a day then. I was VERY skeptical, but she napped 2-3 hours during that one nap, where she'd nap for 45 minutes when she was napping twice a day.

We didn't force the issue, but daycare did. Once they turned a year old, they were down to just one nap a day.