naps

[Anonymous]

can anyone give any insight on when and how they weaned thier children from two naps down to one? A lot of times I put Brianna down for her nap and she doesn’t even seem tired, but if I don’t do it then, she will end up not going to bed until 8-9pm…so we are thinking about trying to combine the naps…she is kind of young for this…only 10 months…what do ya’ll think?

[Anonymous]

I think that’s the age I tried with Henry. It didn’t work so well for us. most days he really needed two naps. there were a lot of cranky nights before bed if he didn’t get that second one in.

I would put him down earlier if he was tired and then on those days, I’d know it was a two napper day. If I could hold him off till later, I’d know it was a one napper day.

We kinda worked our way into it that way. The one naps were about 2-3 hours as opposed to a shorter nap, so that was nice. I found that once we were down to one nap, we shifted the time to later in the day. That helped a lot and that’s probably when it started working better for us.

This method was not good for scheduling my day, but it worked for him.

[Anonymous]

My daughter was ready for one nap around a year old. What happened was she would go down for her morning nap but then resist the afternoon nap until finally at 4pm she was exhausted, but of course I wasn’t putting her down for a nap that late in the day! So I started moving the morning nap further and further back, so now she doesn’t go down until after 11am (and hopefully it’s more like noon or 1pm) and sleeps for 2-3 hours and that’s it for the day. Then bedtime between 6 and 8pm depending on what time the nap is over. Of course, now our trouble is “catnapping” in the car, which screws up the whole day.

[Anonymous]

My babies all transitiioned to one nap before a year. Liza just did it because she was a great sleeper and easy baby so even if she was a little tired I could hold her off until after lunch and then she’d take a three hour nap. It was great for me!

Ellie just seemed to fall into that pattern around 9-10 months because we’d be out and about in the morning and she’d take a little snooze in the car and that would sustain her until around noonish, and then she’d take a long nap along with Liza.

Myles started one nap at around 9 months, too. With him, I really tried to make it happen because I didn’t want to be tied to the house all day with him napping in the morning, the girls napping after lunch and him napping again in early afternoon. So, I started waking him from his morning nap after 1/2 hour, or running errands, going to the park or whatever in the morning so he’d catch a quick snooze in the car. It worked well with him but he really needed that little cat nap in the morning for a while, then he’d take a long afternoon nap…which of course is great for me….all three napping at the same time. Ahhh….

Good luck. I hope Briannna can make the transition, too. I always found the one nap so much more convenient than two naps.

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