what are you 12 month olds napping like?

[lin7604]

i am in the middle of trying to figure out if my ds is trying to go to 1 nap a day.  He currently is taking 2 one somewhere between 10-11 for 1-1.5 hrs and then again between 2-3 for 1 hr to 1hr 15 min.  Lately he has been getting later and later in the am for a nap and then the pm nap is too late to have.  I just don't think he is quite ready for one nap as he will be doane by 5pm then.  if i did try to get 1 nap say 12-2 is i got a 2 hr nap? then bed would be 7pm no later and he only sleeps 11 hrs at night max.

[mum6791]

Sounds like it could be the 2-1 switch.  My ds is 13 months and we are going through it right now.  It is pretty tough.  She has always been a long am napper and short pm napper.  She is an early waker (I think she needs more night time sleep, but she disagrees - so far she wins) and can only make it about 3 - 3 1/2 hours before a nap.  She decided to give up the afternoon one, which was leading to really, really long afternoons!  I don't think she was ready for just one nap as she seems to need to go down pretty quickly in the morning.  I have been trying a 1/2 hour nap after about 3 1/2 hours of being awake.  I then put her down around 2 3/4 - 3 hours after that nap.  She has been sleeping around 1 1/2 hours in the afternoon.  This means that night time isn't too early!  She still is an early waker, but the she is pretty happy.  I think this is a great way to go to one nap.  I was going to try moving the am nap out since it is her long one, but since I wasn't getting any pm nap I decided to go the 1/2 hour am nap.

So after all of my blabbering, I'm just trying to say you might want to try and shorten her am nap by 15 min every few days until the afternoon nap seems to be more reasonable.  I think it is really hard to avoid OT completely with this switch, but trying to minimize it is key.  I was thinking of going cold turkey, but I really don't think my ds is ready for that - do you think yours might be?

[lin7604]

no way!  I think i will just try to put him down at the 3 hr mark no later as then he's anot as tired and usually will sleep for only 1 hr max then, and then the pm nap will still be at a good time adn a good length.  CAuse when i wait for him to show me more tired signs for the am nap it's a lot later in the am adn then it's a long nap with throws things off.  I will see how that is going for a few days.  The last 2 night he has woken up once and i don't know why?

[skatty]

My DD will soon be 13 months and we are now having some one nap days and others we have an AM nap and then a evening catnap so our days either look something like this:

07.00 wake
11.30 nap
13.00 wake
18.00ish bed

or

06.00ish wake
10.30 sleep
12.00 wake
16.40ish catnap in pram
17.00 wake
19.00 bed

Except she doesn't normally sleep 1½ hours usually a bit less but so far has been fine as she is a good night sleeper getting somewhere between 12 and 13 hours a night most nights. I did try the short AM nap but this didn't work for us as we'd often also only get a short PM nap too and this lead to OT but for some this works really well, I guess it's trial and error as each LO is different.

[christinew]

Hi!

I'm new...mine will also be 13 months old soon.  Her nap schedule looks like this.

9-10a
and
1-3p, give or take a little bit

[kim&savannah]

DS is almost 12 months and still doing two naps (around 9:30-11 and 2:30-4--very rough estimates--totally depends on when he wakes).  He used to be up from his pm nap by 3, but its gotten later--some days he doesn't even go to sleep until 3:30 or 4, but I still let him take that last nap because he's always so tired and bedtime would have to be REALLY early if he didn't.

My personal opinion is to not push the 2-1 nap change, but wait until they are actually refusing the second nap regularly.  Just because I know that they will go back and forth for awhile and I'd rather not fight it early and then have them overtired off and on for months.  They need more sleep when they hit growth spurts, are going through developmental stuff, etc. . .  And there is a lot of that going on around one year.

And a lot of the time, even if DS takes a late nap, he is still tired by 7 or 7:30 for bed anyway--He still needs the sleep, just takes it a little closer to bedtime, so it still works to do two naps.  I've been surprised since he normally goes 3-4 hours until bedtime.

HTH!

~Kim

[andibig]

sasha at that age was having a 1hr nap in the AM and 1.5hr nap in the PM.
she transitioned to 1 nap at 13/14 months,basically she was falling asleep later for her AM nap.i'd still get her up at the same time so she ended having a shorter AM nap and waking cranky from it.

thats why she went to one nap as it was pushing her whole routiine out of place.

[pbmom]

My situation was like Skatty's - although I have to admit our 2-1 nap switch was much later with Paige.  She took 2 consistently until 16 mos and then would just play in her crib on the afternoon nap somedays.  Other days she would take the afternoon nap.  She couldn't do a long A time in the a.m. and shortening that nap did not work for us - she was miserable.  So, I continued to put her in her crib for the second nap as she was laying down and playing so I knew she was still resting.  The pm nap got later and later though...luckily it never affected her bedtime (which was late as her daddy works late and she sleeps later in the a.m. than most her age).  After a while she was only playing on the pm nap (she was louder and louder I might add) and her a.m. nap was getting longer, so I pushed the a.m. one back by 15 minutes every few days until it ended up at her ideal place.  I would love her to go down later to this day (she's now 2), but she just can't handle the a.m. A time that others can.  Good luck - I'm sure there's 100 different ways to make it work.   

[irish3680]

Ella was doing the exact same thing as Sashas Mummy described and it was not working at all, so at 12 months she went to 1 nap. It worked because she was sleeping 12+ hours at night. When we first made the switch our routine was:

6:30/7:00: wake
11:00: nap (1.5 - 3 hours)
6:00: bed

At 13 months we went to:
6:30/7:00: wake
11:30: nap (usually 2 - 2.5 hours)
6:30: bed

Now at 14 months we are at:
7/7:30: wake
12:00: nap (wake her at 2:30)
7:00: bed

This is ideal for us as I like 7 pm bedtime! 

[stheo]

Ainslee just turned 1 and she has been taking 1 nap for about a month now.. she kept fighting her pm nap that we pushed her am nap back until it was 130-200 and she sleeps 1.5 -2 hrs. we just put her to bed a little earlier.. it seems to work for us.. she is on a late schedule though to.. lately she i dont think she feels good due to teething because she is sleeping 13-14 hrs a night and then a 1.5-2 hr nap in the daytime.. but she is still a spit fire outgoing toddler that just likes her sleep like her mommy...  now her bedtime is around 800 and she wakes aroun 930 in the morning.. i cant complain..

[Clarepie]

Hi,
My DD is 13 months and her routine looks like this

6:30/6:45 wakeup
10:30 Nap for 20 mins
12:45 Nap for 1hr 40mins
Bed 6:45 pm

She has been on this routine since she was about 10 month old.She sometimes wakes earlier than 6:30 if she has more than 2 hours of daysleep and 12 hours of nightsleep.She loves this routine,think she will be heading towards the 1 nap soon though,she doesn't seem as tired when she goes to bed at night and has I think programmed herself to fall asleep at nap times now,she only starts rubbing her eyes when I put her down in her cot.I'll keep her on this routine for aslong as I can unless she starts resisting her naps or waking early frequently.

Clare x