Sleep has been a big struggle for us. We finally let them CIO at 11 months, so we have finally gotten some sleep in the last 4-6wks. We've always been on a nap and feeding schedule, but they would only take 35 min naps for the longest time. We've been on this schedule for awhile:
Awake 6-7am breakfast
~6oz milk 9am
down for nap # 1 at 10-1030am. This can range from 40 min to 2.5 hrs!
noon lunch
3pm 4 oz milk
nap #2 start at 330-4pm
DS sleeps 40-60 min on average. DD can sleep 40 min to 2 hours again
dinner when they wake up
6 oz milk around 7pm
Bed at 8pm.
I do feel like their naps are getting shorter again and have had a few days where they cry in their cribs for 30 min and refuse their 2nd nap. Of course, then they are falling asleep during dinner. They're tired in the morning and usually go right to sleep at 10-1030am.
When did you know it was time to drop a nap and when does your LO go down and how long do they sleep?
Thanks!
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Re: When did your LO go from 2 naps to 1?
At daycare mine starting doing one nap at 11 months. But at home he was still doing 2 until around 13 months.
I don't watch the clock, I watch him, so I just kept on top of his sleep signals, which got later and later until his morning nap was around 12:30, which became his only nap.
When LO was around 11 months, she was taking two naps, but only for 40 minutes each. At home, she would nap better. They moved her to the toddler room at 13 months and they all take one nap for two hours. I feel like it was a bit soon, because she was so tired and cranky when she got home, we had to put her down for bed at 6:15, but she sleeps for two hours! It's almost like she had a transition period where one nap wasn't enough but two naps were rough from 11-13 months.
Good luck!
I can tell that DS is getting close to dropping a nap. Probably his morning one. Sometimes he just lays up there and either plays/whines instead of napping. He just started doing this over the last few weeks. He takes a super long afternoon one most of the time (2-3 hours) and I feel like that will just move that up to the middle of the day once he drops a nap.
For both my girls it was around 15 months that they dropped the morning nap. My youngest still takes the odd morning nap if she is really tired, but 99% of the time she is a one nap girl.
I always pushed them to at least 12:30 before putting them down, and try for closer to one. If she goes to bed at 1 then she'll sleep for a good 2 1/2 to 3 hours and easily be able to make it to bedtime at 7:30ish. If I go earlier then 12:30, she is up at around 2 and is an absolute bear by 6ish.
But we've also learned that for her, she can go to bed no earlier then 7:30 (give or take 5 minutes) otherwise she wakes up at 5 am. Bedtime at 7:30 makes for a 7 or later wake up time.
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My older son stopped napping twice around 14 months. He would take a fine morning nap, but wouldn't take an afternoon nap. So, I pushed his morning nap back more and more until it was in the afternoon after lunch.
My younger son is still going strong with his morning and afternoon naps at 13.5 months!