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My younger daughter did actually drop her second nap just before 1 year, but that’s quite young to drop it. I think he’s just too excited that he can do this and you’ll just have to ride it out. What happens if you go in and lay him down and tell him to sleep? I know between my two kids, if I tried that with my older, she would have gotten way more excited and never gone to sleep and started crying. With my younger there’s a 50/50 chance she would have actually gone to sleep after I laid her down.

Hopefully he will get over the excitement and go back to napping for you soon!

@annem1990: those aren’t very good options then I would probably just leave him in there until it’s an acceptable nap length (an hour, 1.5) or he started crying. And plan on an early bed time tonight. Good luck.

DS went down to one nap at 12 months. It was basically forced on him, as he moved rooms at daycare and the one-year-old room only did one nap. But he got used to it quickly. Maybe try one day with only one nap and see how he responds?

DD did this when she first started cruising. It lasted a week or so. Then it was old news and she went back to sleeping just fine. In my opinion it is early to drop to one nap but I know some kids do.

I personally love having my kids on only one nap. Both of mine dropped down to one nap around 5 months old. (Yes seriously...my pediatrician didn’t believe me at first either!) My older child did this all on her own. My younger child did this because we were always off to one of my daughter’s activities in the mornings.

This might be a great time to transition to one longer nap in the afternoons. If he is more tired by the afternoon, he’s less likely to play around in his crib instead of sleeping. And you will had much more freedom in the mornings

Before you drop the nap, I would let it ride out a week or so to see if the novelty wears off. My LO2 did this but got bored and went back to his naps. Praise hands bc he would get cranky with just one nap