10 month old nap schedule

maritimeme

My DD just turned 10 months this week and I feel like we need to tweak our schedule. She has been taking 20+ mins to fall asleep and only napping for 30-40 minutes for the last 2 weeks. She used to have short naps until about 7 months when we started a bit of nap training and she then got into a good groove of longer naps. She was doing 2 hrs of awake time before #1 and then 3 hrs before nap #2 then 3.5-4hrs before bedtime (always around 7ish). I've extended her morning wake time to 2.75hrs with some success on a couple of days. What does everyone else do? I leave her about 15 mins when she wakes but she isn't going back to sleep (usually wakes crying but calms relatively quickly). I can tell she's still tired. No new milestones and no new teeth coming either. Thanks! ETA she has just recently gone from 2 feelings to 0-1 at night on her own. Not sure if the consolidated night sleep has had an effect.

LisaLisa1980

I was doing some reading on sleep last night & it said @ 10 months their first nap will be 3 hrs after waking up and 2nd nap will be 3-4 hrs after that.

DS is only 9 months but we do 1st nap 2 hrs after waking up but it's starting to stretch to 2.5 - 3 hrs. 2nd nap 3 hrs after 1st nap, bedtime 4 hrs after waking up.

His first nap is about 45 mins, 2nd nap is 1.5 - 2 hrs.

cgg0707

My son will be 11 months on the 28th. He usually goes down 2 hours after he wakes up, but I really just follow his queues as to when he is ready to go to sleep (rub eyes, yawn, not interested in playing, fussy, etc). He usually will sleep for 1 to 1.5 during his first nap. His second nap is usually around 2.5 to 3 hours after he wakes up. He also usually sleeps 1 to 2 hrs (depends on how long his first nap is). I really just follow what he wants. He sometime can sleep for 3 hrs, however, if he naps for less than 45 min, I will try to get him to go back to sleep, as I know is not enough to get him through his next sleep cycle.

honeydew01

My DD is 10 months and 3 weeks but right at the 10 month mark we had a few days where she'd take 20-30 minutes to fall sleep and her 1 to 1.5 hour naps shortened to 45 minutes. So I extended her awake time right then.

Here is our current schedule:

-2.5 to 2.75 hours awake time from the time she wakes up in the morning (between 7 to 7:30 recently).

-nap 2 is 3 hours from the end of nap 1

-bedtime is 3-4.5 hours from the end of nap 2 depending on when nap 2 ends but at the latest we try to have her in bed by 7:30 and I don't let her sleep past 4:30 or 4:45 so that bedtime doesn't get shifted.

Also when my DD takes 45 minute naps she almost always wakes up crying and when she wakes up crying I take it that she is still tired. Sometimes she goes back to sleep after 5-10 minutes but sometimes she doesn't. Like you, I give her a chance to fall back sleep and if she doesn't, I get her out. 

I think you're on the right track for extending her awake time if she is taking longer to fall sleep and then waking up after 30-45 minutes. 

maritimeme

Thanks everyone for your advice! She has always been on the longer side of average wake times so I was worried I would keep her up too long and have her become overtired. Now I feel more comfortable that I am on the right track!

jllmb79

wakes between 7-8am

nap 1 around 10am 30 min- 1hr 30min

nap 2 around 2pm 1hr -2hrs

bed 8pm

SLGILL1978

I also just follow my baby's cues. She is on her own routine but it is about the same each day. She usually takes a morning nap between 9:30-10 am and will sleep for 30 mins to an hour. Then she is up for a little bit longer and will take her afternoon nap around 2pm. She will sleep from 1-1.5 hours. During the weekend (and sometimes during the week) we are off by a few minutes because we don't get up as early for work/daycare. The last couple of weeks we actually had to go back to the 3rd nap because she was just cat napping at daycare.

SidraJedi

I follow DD's cues and it is a crap shoot with 1-2 naps a day. She used to be way more regular but she is going through separation anxiety/stranger danger (a little late????) and she has trouble sleeping I think because of this. I am SAH for now. I never spend longer than 2 hours away from her.

=Lee=B

My daughter has been doing two 2hr naps and some days a 3rd 45min nap just before supper.

She typically goes to sleep about 2hrs after waking.  I follow her cues and go with it...it varies a bit but generally she is awake 2hrs, sleeps 2hrs, awake 2hrs, sleeps 2 hrs, awake 2hrs, sleeps 45min, awake 2-3 hrs then asleep for the night (waking to feed a couple times).

She is 10.5months.  She just popped 4 top teeth in the last 2 weeks so things were off.  We're back in the grove of things now.  She may be ready to start doing longer stretches...but still goes down easily so I'm hesitant to try! 

My daughter does 45min sleep cycles and usually wakes, stretches rolls a bit and goes back to sleep.  When something is off (overtired, teeth, anything) she will wake crying and I go in and lie with her for a few minutes to resettle her and she usually goes right back to sleep.  This took months of training, for both of us, as she would previously wake and be up.