10 month sleep schedule

jennifire7

I need some help twin moms! Up until a week ago, my twins were sleeping 7pm-7am and taking 2 naps a day around 1 1/2 hours each. They are now refusing their second nap and are clearly exhausted but would rather play, "talk" to each other, and stand up in their cribs during the second nap. I have tried separating them for the second nap, letting them stay up a little later, and trying to rock them to sleep - nothing has worked. This all started when they learned how to stand up in their cribs. Is 10 months too early to merge to one nap? What kind of nap schedule have you guys used if you can keep them on 2 naps? Could this just be a phase? Currently, their schedule is: 7am wake, 9am-9:30am nap, 11am wake, 1:30pm nap (which they are refusing), 3:30pm wake, 6pm bedtime routine (bath/bottles/story time), 7pm bed. Thanks!

Felicity86

My twins are the same age and on the same schedule. Naps have always been hard, but mine still need two. I usually do the afternoon nap in the car while we're running errands. It's also only 30-40 minutes, while their morning crib nap is closer to an hour.

whitehousem

My twins aren't here yet, but DD is 18 mo and we are just now going to drop to one nap. She sleeps 7pm-7am, nap 9-11am, nap 2/3-5pm (second nap got pushed to 3 as she got older). We sometimes had to wake her at 5/5:30 from her nap but had no prob getting her to go back to sleep at 7/7:30. She went through several short phases where she wouldn't nap or would fight one of the naps. I just left her up there to talk, play, whine, even cry. She would go back to the schedule after a few/several days of that. People were always telling me to drop the second nap, but I'm glad I stuck with it. Now I know she's really ready. She also went through phases where one of the naps would be three hours long and the other shorter than usual. Personally, I wouldn't drop a nap at 10 months. They are prob just going through a developmental phase. Good luck!