How do you go down to one nap???

Wedding607

My son is going to bed at 8 PM and gets up at 7 am... then naps at 9:30-10:30 then 2-3...

 

But the past 3 days I have gotten rid of the am nap and put him down at 1:30 yesterday and he slept till 3:30

 

Today he went down at 1 PM and got up at 2:20 thats not enough... he is so tired but I don't know how to keep him asleep longer... how long does this take? 

avbliss

Most people say it takes a week or two. I personally never fully cut out the morning nap, I just cut it down and changed it to solo playing time in DD's crib. That way she's getting some quite time which rejuvenates her a bit and she takes a better afternoon nap since she played harder after her quite time then she did when she was just up the whole time. My good friend calls it "room time" where her kids (3 and 1) play in their room. The 3 yo can play with anything in her room, and the 1 yo has several toys in his crib (that's what I do still, but will transition to the whole room in about a month).

ToastieSimons

why are you removing a nap?  Does your child seem happy with 2? 

For us we just kept shortening the morning nap.  instead of 9:30-10:30 and then 2-3 we would let him nap from 9:30-10:15 then 1:45 to 3 (or whenever he got up).

A few days later (or whenever he's ready) We'd do 9:30-10 and 1:30-3.  Then after a few days I would just try to put him down at 12 and let him sleep as long as he wants.

DS usually goes down for a nap 4-5 hours after he wakes up and it's usually 3 hours long.  Then he goes to sleep 4-5 hours after that.  So he would wake at 7 nap 12-3 and then go to bed at 7:30 ish.

Edit:  For DS to stay up from 7-1 is an awful long time.  That may be just to late for your LO and he may be getting overtired and then can't settle for nap.

dragon_chica

How old is your DS?  Is it possible he's not ready to go down to one nap?  It could always be the timing of the nap.  Try earlier or later.  Have you considered maybe putting him down for the night a bit earlier too?  But for the most part typically one-nappers only nap for about 1.5-2 hours.

MNgirl326

For us it was a domino effect that LO showed he was ready for 1 nap.

It became impossible to put him down for his am nap,

 and then when he finally went down he he would try and sleep for 2+ hours

which would then cause his pm nap to be way late in the afternoon

which would then cause him to not go to sleep until 9-10 pm.

 

So i started shortening his am nap first to 1 hour, then to 45 minutes, then to 30 minutes, then to 20 minutes.  Once he moved to a 20 minute nap, I upped his pm nap time to right after lunch and finally dropped the am nap.   It took awhile and it was a lot of reading LO's signals.  Luckily this all happend when I came home for summer break so I was able to do the transistion easily. 

I wasn't ready for him to drop the nap, but he was....

spring_time

I just looked up information on this yesterday.  I found this post on another forum.  It quotes from Weissbluth. 

https://www.babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=54133.0;wap2 

kristalovesjared

A couple months ago, i thought DD might be ready for 1 nap, but after a week of her wanting to go to bed at 6pm, then get up at 9 to play, we continued 2 naps and I plan on doing it a while longer. She still is to bed by 8:30 and sleeps in until 9, so I'm keeping it that way as long as I can!

groovygrl

Mine didn't have a choice, they went to a daycare room w/ only one nap, from 11-1 more or less. They were fine after a week or two, but we also always had a really early bedtime, between 6 & 630.

smitt2619

We had this exact same experience with DS2 (I honestly don't remember the specifics with DS1).  He was fine to wait until 12:30/1pm during the transition, but would often hardly sleep longer then an hour, unless I would hold him, which wasn't an option.  I think it took about a week or 2 for him to adjust, and now he most often sleeps about 2-3 hours.  But with your LO sleeping 11 hours at night, likely 2 hours during the day could be enough.  I did a quick search for charts on recommended amounts of sleep, and this one [ https://kidshealth.org/parent/general/sleep/sleep.html ] says that lots of factors come into play, but for toddlers age 1-3, 10 to 13 hours.  So your LO is actually on the higher end of that.  Does he seem tired and like he needs more sleep?   

smitt2619

https://www.sleepforkids.org/html/uskids.html

This one says 12-14 hours.  

Wedding607

18 months on friday