11 month can't fall asleep for 2nd nap

[texasmom]

Hi there,
Could use a bit of advice. 

Here was our routine (generally)
Wake 6:00
Nap 9:15-10:45
Nap 2:15-3:45
Asleep 7:30

What's happened lately is that DS has had a hard time falling asleep for his 2nd nap about 3 times now.  2 times he has skipped it altogether, and I just put to bed early - but really the A time was too long.  Also, he is taking longer to fall asleep for the 1st nap. 

Should I shorten his first nap?  If so, to how long?  Also need to extend A time before 1st and 2nd nap.  Just wanted to get some suggestions. 

Thanks!

Brooke

[texasmom]

I just read another post similar to mine, and the suggestion was to shorten the morning nap to 40 min. 

So I could do that... 

Maybe first nap for 45 min after 3.5 h A time.  But then before the second nap, should he go the full 3.5 h A time?  Seems it'd have to be shorter.  ??  How long for the second nap? 

DS has never slept longer than 11 hours at night (except on a whim), usually 10.5. 

Thanks again. 

[jwhitt]

What we did when naps started getting short around that age was this: 3 hours A time before first nap which I limited to 30 min, then 2.5 hours of A time between naps.  The pm nap usually lasted around 1.5 hours.

[EsMum]

Hi there, I have the same problem with my 10mo.  I went to the 2-1 switch thread and there are lots of mums there who have gone through this/are going through it...you might find some good info there.

I'm going to try shortening my LOs am nap tomorrow to see what happens...

Good luck!
Michelle.

[debo620]

Hi Brooke, yup definately shorten the am nap.

I actually would start with 1 hour for the am nap and then leave the 2nd nap at about the same A time.

so maybe:
wake 6
nap 9:30-10:30
nap 2-3:30
bed 7:00/7:15
if this works, you have shaven 1/2hr of sleep off of your day and hopefully he will add it to his night,

if he is still fighting the pm nap, you just shorten further. 40min am naps didn't seem to work, so we actually went down to 30min and then he was asleep by 3hrs later for 1.5hrs long.

[texasmom]

Thank you thank you thank you.   

It would be a beautiful thing if he would add 30 min to the night.   

[KathrynK]

It would be a beautiful thing if he would add 30 min to the night.

And so say all of us on the 2-1 nap thread!

[texasmom]