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I’m interested to hear what others say. My almost 8mo takes 3 for sure and has definitely gotten better at putting sleep together, so maybe could do two in an ideal world, but I have to wake her up for big kid stuff. But I’m still not sure it would work because her awake time isn’t long enough yet, often 2 hours max. I do think STTN (which just came together this month) has helped her daytime sleep - she’s just learned to deal with little wakeups on her own. So all that says to me time passing is a factor (and different for each baby) but probably other factors too.

My first was on two naps at this age. She got up around 7, slept 9:30-11, 2:30-4, bed at 8. No way this baby could handle that yet even though I think total nap time is about the same, she needs shorter awake intervals.

We kind of had to force the awake times to get to 3 naps. He seemed better/distracted when we were out and about than just hanging at home. We’ve done the same routine for a long while and he was cat napping 4x too up until maybe 2-3 weeks ago when he just started extending the naps himself. Now we usually get 1.5-2 hrs in the morning and aft, maybe a 30 min later if he needs it, but we are thinking he might be able to get to 2 depending on the afternoon timing. So all that to say is I don’t think it was anything we did besides force a little longer awake times and time.

My son was around 8 months when he went from 3 to 2 naps. I think this was on the early side, but he consolidated naps basically on his own. I started noticing that one nap a day was getting VERY long (I didn't wake him up from naps) and it was getting hard to get three naps into a day. We struggled at bed time for about a week because I was extending his wake time between naps and I think he was overtired. In retrospect I probably should have moved his bed time up a bit, but it took about a week to get through it and then he was fine.

FWIW, he also dropped to one nap at 11 months completely on his own too. Literally just refused to nap in the morning one day out of the blue and never went back, so that might just be his personality.