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dropping morning nap?

crystaleyes39crystaleyes39 member
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When do you all plan to drop your morning naps?  I feel like my girls are getting to the point where I can push their afternoon nap up earlier and only do one long nap a day...but i'm nervous!
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  • Mama2TwoBoysMama2TwoBoys

    I guess it depends on when they wake up in the morning. Here's what our schedule looks like:

    DS is awake at 5am.

    He naps from 930-1130.

    Then another nap from 130-330. 

    Bedtime at 730pm.

     

    He used to take two morning naps from about 7-8 and 10-11:30, but his teacher at DC got him into the routine of consolidating.

    If your girls wake up quite a bit later,  dropping the morning nap and doing a super long afternoon one might work.

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  • dizzycooksdizzycooks member
    No plans to drop it at this point.  DD gets up at 6, takes a nap at 9 and again at 1.  They let her sleep as long as she wants/needs and then she sometimes falls asleep at 4:30 on the way home.  She is always in bed by 7, last night she fell asleep in the family room at 6 so I put her to bed.  She never woke up after that.  Her naps are usually 45 minutes - 2 hours.  It really depends on the day.
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  • mben1119mben1119 member
    DS dropped his a few months ago. He pushed it out of his schedule himself, so we went with it. It works for us.
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  • baloneydiscbaloneydisc member
    DD is trying to drop hers by herself.  She use to nap at 9am, 2pm & 4pm.  Now she naps around 11-12 & 4 or so.
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  • kaybe24kaybe24 member
    No tips for dropping the morning nap but I would love if mine dropped his.  He wakes up from 6:30 - 7:00 and naps from 9 til about 11.  This is when all the mom groups meet and the library time is so I've always missed these because I don't want to mess up his longest nap.
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  • crystaleyes39crystaleyes39 member

    imagekaybe24:
    No tips for dropping the morning nap but I would love if mine dropped his.  He wakes up from 6:30 - 7:00 and naps from 9 til about 11.  This is when all the mom groups meet and the library time is so I've always missed these because I don't want to mess up his longest nap.

    Ya to only work around 1 nap would be amazing..AND that one nap would probably be a longer nap so I could actually get stuff done during it. :) I'm thinking I may try it the week of their bday party because our schedule is so crazy that day.

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  • greeneyed_bridegreeneyed_bride member
    DS dropped his own morning nap just this past week. I would nurse him to put him down for his nap, and nursing would make him wide awake instead of putting him to sleep. He now is taking one long-ish nap around noon.
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  • noahchristophernoahchristopher member

    Oh, you'll get lots of different views on this one.  I'll give you our experience.  Our son is just now 15 mos and we've been on one nap now for about 3 weeks.  It's not all super great and awesome from the get go, at least not for us, but we're not turning back now.

    He started to show signs around 11 mos that two naps were not going to happen easy.  So, after much reading up on it, I tweeked his schedule how I needed to in order to keep two naps as long as I could.  I ended up spreading his sleep out a bit more by waking him up at the same time each morning, and not letting nap one go over an hour so the second nap could happen, then also not letting him  sleep more than an hour for the second nap, give or take a few mins.

    This worked well for 4 months.  Then what started happening was the second nap had to be later and later or he just wasn't going to take it.  Then his nights started getting shorter and shorter.

    In the beginning we delt with some night wakings and a few early wakings, before 6am. Due to him being over tired.  Their bodies need time to adjust to being awake for two long stretches day after day.  It's still not perfect because we are in an early wake (6:30am), and an early bed time (6:30pm) cycle at the moment.  But I expect that to correct itself soon.  It was similar when he went from 3 naps to 2 around 7 months.

    I'd wait it out as long as you can, especially if you have issues with sensitivity to overtiredness.  The closer you can get them to 18 mos the easier the transition will be.  For most, not all, of course.

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