NCDR- nap help

stoneycakes

Lately, DS has been adding a third nap close to his bedtime.  What's up with that?  Isn't he supposed to be dropping naps now that he's close to one?  He turns super cranky, so I always put him down, but then I struggle with whether I should wake him up early.  He wakes 2-3x a night and sometimes I wonder if I just let him take a late nap and go to bed later, maybe he would sleep better.  But I don't really want him to go to bed late because I want some time to decompress at the end of the night.  WWYD?

Ilovebeingamom

What time are his naps and what time is bedtime? Make afternoon nap a tad later and bedtime a tad earlier?

unaveragejane

DS is just a few weeks younger than your LO. Lately he has been able to stay up a bit longer b/n naps. He goes 3.5 hours before his first nap and 4 hours between 1st and 2nd nap. He's generally up after the 2nd nap by 4:30. Bedtime is b/n 7:15 and 7:45, even when his nap is kind of late. Before I realized his awake time needed to be longer, he was taking two really short, crappy naps and was cranky as all heck by bedtime.