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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
beachgirl24
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11 mo. LO phasing out afternoon nap?
beachgirl24
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In the past several weeks DS has had on average 1 day per week where he doesn't nap in the afternoon, but crashes around 5:45 pm in the car seat on the way home, then sleeps through dinner and into the night (we usually don't try to wake him up, I'm of the thought that if sleep trumps hunger then he must need the sleep). Usually he wakes up at 1230 a.m. or so, hungry, and we give him a 6-7oz bottle and he's back to bed until 530 am or so.
After doing this on and off, he did it again last Wed., then on Thurs, Fri, Sat. and Sunday he continued to have NO afternoon nap at all, but went to bed at his normal time of 7:30 (this is also a bit earlier of a bedtime which we purposely gradually moved from 8:00-8:15 pm to make sure he is getting enough sleep) and STTN! This of course is great and just fine with us, I was just wondering if other LOs are doing it and whether it is likely to stick? That being said, he had some regression last night and woke up at 1230 am and then at 430 am, hungry/crying (or possibly just night terrors). Even after we fed him this morning at 4:45 am. he was restless, crying again, we fed him more, back down again, up again crying at 5:05 am, back down again and then up for good at 6am as per his usual. So basically we've been up since 4:30 a.m.
DC tells me that they often hange their sleep patterns and nap patterns around 12 mos so I assume this is par for the course, just wondering what others' experiences are? TIA!
(Same birthday, 2 years apart!)
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Re: 11 mo. LO phasing out afternoon nap?
My DS had been sleeping 7pm-6am, then taking a 2 hr morning nap at 9am and an hour and a half nap at 2:30pm. It was awesome. Then last week he started waking up at 7am and that seems to have screwed up his naps - he'll either then take only short naps (like 35 min) or take a long morning nap and then not be able to sleep for the afternoon nap. If he sleeps about 13.5 hours daily, and 12 at night, then there isn't much time for napping during the day.
I think sometimes you have to control their sleep patterns or they can get screwed up. Have you tried shifting some sleep between naps/night and seeing if that helps?
If that's not an option, maybe try pushing back the morning nap until around noon if possible. I've read that at 12 months 83% of babies are still taking 2 naps, but by 15 months that's about 50/50.
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I totally agree with this. Our son just turned 12 mos and for the last month or two that second nap has been difficult. Once or twice he's refused it altogether (crying hard after playing for a bit, and so not like him), and other times, even now, it takes some time for him to fall asleep for the second nap, sometimes 20-30 mins.
I've been reading a lot about it and it seems that they go through a nap regression at this age and are also on the verge of going to one nap, so it gets weird.
What we've done (got the idea from something I read), after trying a few things, is limit his sleep sometimes. It's only temporary. If he sleeps until 7, two naps just won't happen. So I wake him around 6:40am. He has a one hr 1st nap, then he's awake for almost 4 hours and takes another hour second nap. He's asleep by 7:30-7:40. We've been doing this for close to a month now and for now it's working. We expect him to phase out of the am nap soon and then we'll slowly move the one nap to around noonish over the course of a month or so.
I know lots of babies go to one nap at a year, but the transition is easier if they're older. Meaning able to handle two long awake periods during the day of 5ish hours each. Right now it's an in between stage and you have to do what you can to get through. If you go to one nap then bedtime should be pretty early for awhile until they get used to the change. This is to avoid night wakings and early wakings in the morning due to them being overtired. You can push them and they will adjust and get used to it, but the road can be bumpy!
So, I'm choosing to hold onto two naps for now. We tried giving him one nap for two days in a row because he had 12 hour nights. He was a hot mess. One of the naps he woke after 30mins and cried for a few mins before going back to sleep. Thank god! He was so overtired. Then the 3rd day he woke at 5:45am. I decided to go back to two naps because he just didn't seem ready for one.
This is what I was told too, last week when I went to meet the 1 year room's teacher for the first time, as LO will be graduating in a few weeks. She told me that they generally put all of the kids down for a nap I think from 11a,m-1pm or so, so it seems like DS is already gearing up to be in that pattern. 1 week later and he still does not really want the afternoon nap but sleeps longer in the morning, typically from 11-1230 which is just fine with me.