When did your LO drop their 2nd nap of the day?

march2008 · March 2012

DD has been taking 2 naps a day since around 6 and a half months. Prior to dropping her third nap, she started fighting it a lot for several weeks before it disappeared all together. She's doing the same thing now. Her morning nap, which she doesn't fight at all, has recently lengthened from 1 hour and 15 minutes (on average) to over 2 hours. It's from 10 am to around noon-ish. She's completely awake until around 4 pm, when she usually gives a couple of yawns, but it's so late for a 2nd nap by that time.

I've read it's most common to not drop to 1 nap per day until after 1 year of age, but I'm sure there must be some variability in that. Has anyone's LO dropped the 2nd nap before 1 year?

Vespah · March 2012

2nd nap is still going strong here. I can't see it going away any time soon either.

Kimosabie · March 2012

I was wondering the same thing. Naps have become very inconsistent around here! Sometimes DS will go down for his morning nap easily and then fight the afternoon nap and ends up skipping it. Other days he will fight the morning one and just take a longer one in the middle of the day, I'm not sure what's going on!

rae_dylanzmom · March 2012

I would say we are one-nappers here about 1/3 of the time. It seems to happen on busy days, and I notice D gets over-tired when it happens. I'm sorta going back to making naps more of a priority for the time being, but I can see things are starting to move in that direction.

jetskreemr · March 2012

My LO sounds very similar to you. She has been starting to fight her second nap around 8 months. She's skipped it a few times here and there, but then she ends up awake for 5-6 hours, which makes the last hour or so just miserable. We are going to keep pushing it for as long as possible!

KandT0919 · March 2012

my DD "dropped" her second nap around 9 months.. she sleeps 12-2 and then a 20 min nap in the car ride home from daycare..

littledream313 · March 2012

My son is 10 months and has been on one nap a day for a long time... probably since he was 5-6 months old. He sleeps a long time overnight though (7pm to 5 am - then nurses and goes back to bed until 8). I remember my daughter dropped her 2nd nap really early too (like around 9 months) but she isn't a great sleeper.

ChattyCathy81 · March 2012

We're still doing 3 naps most days... BUT my LO won't nap for more than 1hr to 1hr15min before waking up.

memali26 · March 2012

DD1 was taking 2 naps a day until 17 months. It was a sad sad day when she dropped to one nap.

amy21tom · March 2012

DS is in the process of dropping his 2nd nap. He only takes two 1 hour naps right now (and is starting to fight both) and I think it would be more beneficial for him to take 1 two hour nap (he sleeps 12 hours at night and 10 month olds need 14hrs/day so I think that would be perfect).

When I was reading Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, the author said that about 17% (something like that) of 10 month olds only need one nap.

jcbarreto · March 2012

WOW! My Cecilia takes three naps still, but the third nap is slowly being taken out. She takes one at 7am for about two hours then one in the late morning 11am for another two hours. Her third that she is dropping usually lasts about half an hour and starts around 530pm, her bedtime is 8pm and she sleeps til 6am.

I did see that she does still need 14 hours of sleep so this is working for us right now

Jeremy'sMom · March 2012

DS dropped his afternoon nap around 9 months. His morning nap lasts about an hour and a half to 2 hours and he sleeps between 12-13 hours at night.

Betts12 · March 2012

At almost 10 months, we're still at 2 naps most days. However, there are one or two days a week when the morning nap might go for 2.5 hours and then the afternoon never happens. On those days, I try to sneak in a catnap for 10-20 minutes with a stroller ride or something.

DS's second nap, when it happens, is around 4pm. Then again, we have a late bedtime (between 8-9:00). Frankly, I sort of like the 4:00 nap time because it helps me get dinner ready.

fancynewbeesly · March 2012

I would say about 75% of the time, my daughter only has one nap. And maybe a 10 minute cat nap in the afternoon on the way home.

Her nap is usually around 9:30-12:00. It is roughly a 2.5 nap. However, an afternoon nap is a fight--and as a result she goes to bed super early---many nights by 6:30pm! She also starts to get tired when it is too late for a second nap.

She wakes up at 5:30 every morning.

If I know that we are going out in the evening (like yesterday for MIL birthday) I will force two naps on her. I will make her morning nap earlier--and put her down for an afternoon nap. (She had 2 naps yesterday--each were 2 hours long!) Even though she went to sleep later than normal, she still was up at 5:30

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