11 month old - could this be a sign of needing to transition to 1 nap?

[MDHmommy]

I have not posted here in ages and ages! That little toddler in my profile picture is almost 5 now ... and a big brother. Time flies!

Anyway baby Peter is just 11 months. In the past week, right in line with his 11 month birthday, he's started to fight sleep at bed time, and to fight his afternoon nap.

His day looks like this:

6 - wake
Bottle #1 6 oz
7:30/45 breakfast, table food with family
8:30/9 - 10:30/11 nap #1
Bottle #2 6 oz
12 - lunch, table food with brother
1:30 or 2 starts acting tired but fights sleep until around 2:30. This nap will either be short (45 mins or so) or pushed so late into the day (waking close to 4pm) that it messes up bed time
Bottle #3 3 oz or so
5:30 dinner, table food with family
6:45/7/7:30 bedtime routine, bath, books, bottle, sleep...

He's been fighting bed time though, where I have had to be firm with PD sometimes for 30 minutes, and sometimes have had to just hold him for a long time to get him to settle. He just sits in his bed throwing a fit (a frustrated cry) and I can tell he's just not tired, but he's downright hyper (overtired?) in the bath.

Could we be in need of beginning the 2-1 transition? I think that he could handle his morning nap being pushed a little.

Thoughts appreciated! I'd love to have this all sorted out before pre school starts for big brother in September because I'll have to take him at 9 ... and baby will just fall asleep in the car!! Wishful thinking??

Thanks all!
Kate

[Jiinx]

Hi there
 I may be misreading your routine, but is he getting two and half hours of A time in the morning?

If so, he could be doing a refusal bc he's not tired?
Typically, an 11 month old can easily do an A time of 3.5 - 4.5 hours. Could you try increasing his first A gently?

[MDHmommy]

Yes, he's doing about 2.5 to 3 hours awake in the morning and then 3.5 to 4 hours awake before his afternoon nap, but it's the afternoon nap he's fighting. He's practically begging for that morning nap after 3 hours (or he just falls asleep where he is)

Then he's doing  3.5 to 4 hours of awake time between that afternoon nap and bed time.

How can I push the morning nap without pushing the afternoon nap so late that bedtime becomes very late?

[Jiinx]

Does he have any EWs? Just trying to see if the first A is interfering with the rest of his day or his night sleep.

Was he, prior to the afternoon nap struggles, able to go down relatively easy and sleep for more than 45 minutes? Does he wake up happy?

I'm suspecting, if all else is fine with his naps and nights, that he may be entering that 21 stage that you're questioning. You may need to cut the first nap down in order to succeed at getting a good afternoon nap of a longer length. What do you think?

[MDHmommy]

Not really, he usually gets up at 6, which I don't consider particularly early. He's generally happy when he gets up from the night ... and usually happy when he gets up from his naps too. If he is EW and really unhappy, it's usually pretty easy to get him to go back to sleep to finish the nap.

Nights are in good shape really. He sometimes wakes from teeth, but other than that he sleeps through with fairly good consistency from about 7:30 to 6am.

I'll try to push that morning nap to 9:30 or so and see how it works.

Thanks for your help!!