How many naps does your LO take?

Allibob · November 2012

I think my LO may be starting to transition from two naps to one, but nothing I'm trying is really working. Maybe we're just having a rough two weeks, and everything will go back to two peaceful naps soon.

Has anyone transitioned from two naps to one? How did it go? How did you know it was time to change? When did it happen?

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mbgreenwalt · November 2012

DD2 takes one 2-3 hour at 11am. She transitioned herself around 10 months.

JamiesWife2010 · November 2012

DS is taking 2 naps...most days. Sometimes, he only takes 1 nap. I have yet to figure out what the difference is on the "1 nap" days.

purpleXdandelion · November 2012

DS goes down for his first nap 2 hours after waking up for the day. Then he goes down for his second nap about 3 hours after waking up from his first. Each nap is about an hour.

mben1119 · November 2012

Ds transitioned to one nap by himself at daycare like a month ago. It is usually around 11 and lasts about 2 hours. His schedule at home varies.

J234 · November 2012

mbgreenwalt:
DD2 takes one 2-3 hour at 11am. She transitioned herself around 10 months.

Same here.... sometimes she only takes an hour nap and then she is super cranky by 4.

gracefulruby33 · November 2012

DD is still taking two naps a day. There was about a week(ish) period about two weeks ago when she was fighting both naps. I thought maybe she was transitioning to one nap, but she was still tired at her usual times. I read that they can fall into a regression around 12 months that can last for 4-6 weeks, then they are basically back to normal and not to take the regression as baby moving to one nap. This made sense for us, personally (obviously every baby is different). I just knew DD wasn't ready for one nap quite yet.

I have noticed that she wants a longer time before her first nap and her first nap is getting shorter the last few days. It may just be a fluke and she'll go back to her two hour nap in the morning (right now it is about 45 minutes or so). I am just going to keep following her signs and see what happens.

smilelari · November 2012

DD probably still needs 2, but she's down to 1. Some days that nap's as early as 10 or 11, and that leads to a really rough dinner. If we can push her to stay up until closer to noon, things are good. Unfortunately, it seems that she dropped her afternoon nap instead of the morning nap, and the afternoon nap is better more restorative sleep, according to all my sleep bibles

jasnem · November 2012

smilelari:
DD probably still needs 2, but she's down to 1. Some days that nap's as early as 10 or 11, and that leads to a really rough dinner. If we can push her to stay up until closer to noon, things are good. Unfortunately, it seems that she dropped her afternoon nap instead of the morning nap, and the afternoon nap is better more restorative sleep, according to all my sleep bibles

same here! What's up with that? I thought she'd move her nap to more mid day, but she's still tired about 2 to 2 and half hours after she wakes up. Goes down for a nice hour and half to two hour nap and then won't nap again. Just started that this week. Hmmmm.... It will be interesting to see what she does when I'm on my Thanksgiving break and am home with her. Poor daycare lady this week!

caffrin · November 2012

DS takes one nap. He started taking a long time to fall asleep for both naps (20-30 minutes). Not crying, just talking before falling asleep. Also, both naps were only 45 minutes long. He has always been a 45 minute baby and I tried for life of me to extend it. Finally, after going to one nap, he extended his nap time to 2-3 hours. He naps at 2pm each day.

Allibob · November 2012

gracefulruby33:
DD is still taking two naps a day. There was about a week(ish) period about two weeks ago when she was fighting both naps. I thought maybe she was transitioning to one nap, but she was still tired at her usual times. I read that they can fall into a regression around 12 months that can last for 4-6 weeks, then they are basically back to normal and not to take the regression as baby moving to one nap. This made sense for us, personally (obviously every baby is different). I just knew DD wasn't ready for one nap quite yet.
I have noticed that she wants a longer time before her first nap and her first nap is getting shorter the last few days. It may just be a fluke and she'll go back to her two hour nap in the morning (right now it is about 45 minutes or so). I am just going to keep following her signs and see what happens.

This is what's been happening with us. DD's been fighting her naps lately, and sometimes skipping them or shortening the afternoon nap to only 30 minutes (after fighting it for 30 minutes). I am eager for her to switch to one longer nap, because it would make my day so much easier. However, when I tried keeping her up a little later to have an early afternoon nap, she completely fell apart about 30 minutes after she normally would go down. I consulted my sleep bibles and I'm at a loss of how to help her, so I thought I'd ask here. Hopefully it's just a phase and we'll get back on track soon.

raepny2 · November 2012

Allibob:
gracefulruby33:
DD is still taking two naps a day. There was about a week(ish) period about two weeks ago when she was fighting both naps. I thought maybe she was transitioning to one nap, but she was still tired at her usual times. I read that they can fall into a regression around 12 months that can last for 4-6 weeks, then they are basically back to normal and not to take the regression as baby moving to one nap. This made sense for us, personally (obviously every baby is different). I just knew DD wasn't ready for one nap quite yet.
I have noticed that she wants a longer time before her first nap and her first nap is getting shorter the last few days. It may just be a fluke and she'll go back to her two hour nap in the morning (right now it is about 45 minutes or so). I am just going to keep following her signs and see what happens.
This is what's been happening with us. DD's been fighting her naps lately, and sometimes skipping them or shortening the afternoon nap to only 30 minutes (after fighting it for 30 minutes). I am eager for her to switch to one longer nap, because it would make my day so much easier. However, when I tried keeping her up a little later to have an early afternoon nap, she completely fell apart about 30 minutes after she normally would go down. I consulted my sleep bibles and I'm at a loss of how to help her, so I thought I'd ask here. Hopefully it's just a phase and we'll get back on track soon.

Both of these for DS! I thought he was going to be ready for one nap because they were getting shorter and he wasn't falling asleep until after about 20-30 minutes of playing in his crib, but he is back to taking 2 naps. He'll come over and crawl in my lap and put his head on my shoulder when he's ready.

Natty13umppo · November 2012

DD takes 2 naps. Most days.

For a long while we were on the 2hr/3hr/4hr wake schedule where I was sort of rigid on the 2/3/4....to the point that nap times were falling all over the place. If she took decent length naps, it worked great, but if one or both naps went short? Ugggggh.

Now naps are more or less scheduled at 9am and 2pm. I do flex them a bit if she seems tired, previous wake was late/early, etc, but more or less I follow this schedule and it has worked well for DD and restored a bit of scheduling sanity for me (when to schedule appts, when we can meet with people, etc...).

The one wake "rule" I do try to follow is not keeping her up more than 4 hours before bedtime. Her bedtime is usually no later than 7:30, but if she wakes from her afternoon nap early, I usually move bedtime earlier to compensate.

Oh, and FWIW, her naps are usually 45min-2 hrs....usually 1-1.5 hrs. And her afternoon nap is usually the longer one (yesterday was 2 hrs! yay!!).

Nwlywed07 · November 2012

We switched to 1 nap a few weeks ago. He wasn't tired at the two hour mark after waking anymore. So I laid him down later and he usually sleeps for about 3 hours and then is ready for bed around 7:30. It's been really easy. As long as he sleeps for the whole 3 hours. If he sleeps for less (like yesterday) he's a mess at 5:30. Last night he was in bed by 6pm. He usually wakes around 8:30 to 9 and then goes down right at noon.

authorofdreamz · November 2012

DD takes 2-3 naps most days, sometimes if we are out she will only take 1 but those days don't go to well and we usually end up putting her to bed super early.

Lemmon_ade12 · November 2012

purpleXdandelion:
DS goes down for his first nap 2 hours after waking up for the day. Then he goes down for his second nap about 3 hours after waking up from his first. Each nap is about an hour.

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