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).

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.

These are the possible issues I've narrowed it down to:
1: Hungry- the child eats as much as I do for breakfast lunch and dinner. I don't think this is it.
2: overtired- maybe, but she sleeps 11-12 hours/night and I put her down no later than 2 hours after waking. Usually earlier.
3: teething- she's been teething for months. It's never affected her sleep before.
4: growth spurt- possible, but a two week long one?
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.

Any ideas? Has anyone else had a baby drop the morning nap this early?