how many naps?

Not real sure on this one. Abby is almost 8 1/2 months old and takes a 1 1/2-2 hour nap in the AM and again in the PM (at least when we are home on weekends – daycare is sometimes a different story) and sleeps from 7:00pm-7/8:00am so she obviously still needs the sleep. I can’t remember when Kayla went to having only 1 nap. I really think it is probably trial and error, like so many other things. Does she sleep well at night? Hopefully Karen (the sleep expert) will chime in on this topic – she has so many great ideas!!

Robin

My DD went down to 1 nap at 15 months. I found that she would just not want to take a nap in the afternoon. My twins took 2 naps till they were 2!!!! God I miss those days!

Yeah, my little guy (Myles) has been on one nap since about 9 months, and even before that was taking a very short morning nap and a longer afternoon nap.

I really wanted it that way (one nap a day) because I have two girls who take a nap in the afternoon. So, if Myles took a morning nap, and then they had their afternoon nap, he wouldn’t be ready for his afternoon nap until their’s was half done, so basically we’d be tied to the house all day napping! While his reflux was bad I never went out anyway, but once he was better and stopped puking I wanted to get out of the house more.

So, I started waking him from his morning nap after 30 minutes, or running errands in the morning so he’d cat nap in the car, and that helped him transition to one nap a day. There are still some mornings that he could use that morning nap, but on those days a quick snooze in the car usually will get him through.

Aidan has a weird schedule, he wakes up at 6, plays from 6-7, then naps from 7-8, then he has another nap around 1, soemtiems later..we have to work around his older brother’s schedule, then he goes to sleep at around 7ish so he takes 2 1 1/2 (sometimes 2) hour naps a day. (he’s 10 months 2) basically, Aidan sleeps when he’s tired,, I didn’t put either of my kids on a schedule when it came to naps.