9 months and refusing all naps

[mom_2_2]

My ds is just a few days shy of 9 months.  I apologize if this is somewhat repetitive with respect to other posts, but I couldn't really find an answer to my dilemna.  So, here goes...

Here was his schedule before everything went nuts.

6am - wake
6:30 - BF
8:00 - solids
9:30 - nap
10:45 - wake
11:00 - BF
12:00 - solids
1:45 - nap
3:00 - wake and BF
5:00 - solids
6:00 - BF
6:30 - bed

About 2-3 weeks ago, he started refusing his afternoon naps.  I tried tinkering with with the morning nap time and the afternoon nap time with no success.  Then, in the past few days, I can't even get him to take the morning nap.  We go through the usual routine and he's hysterical the moment he's in his crib, often before I even set him down.  He's teething and on the verge of fully crawling.  I have a video monitor and he's definitely practicing crawling at night, but he seems to (knock on wood) still sleep ok at night (he goes to sleep on his own).  For daytime, I've taken to take him for walks to get him to sleep at all.  But, I just can't walk him 3 hours a day.  What can I do???  He's so overtired and fussy.

[Aly Mac]

This is pretty normal around this age. You just might need to adjust his nap times and even the length.

here is a link to somethings that may help.
https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=95670.0

hth

[mom_2_2]

Thank you for the reply.  I had seen the link above, but I had two questions.  First, I was under the impression that 9 months was too early to begin the 2-1 transition.  Second, ds always seems quite tired when 9:30 arrives (so moving the morning nap later didn't seem like the answer), he just refuses to nap.  However, I will try pushing the morning nap later (does 10:15 seem like a reasonable time to try? - he woke up this morning at 6:15).  At some level, I have nothing to lose, given that he won't nap anyway! 

[mom_2_2]

I tried putting him down at 10:15 today and he went to sleep pretty quickly.  That's the good news.  However, he only slept for 30 minutes.  What's that about?

[Aly Mac]

you aren't really doing the switch, just kind of preparing things, so don't worry.  It just means you may need to start playing with A times and naps timings to keep him on 2naps as long as possible.

30mins naps is normally OT.  What I did was this:

6/6.30wake up
9am nap - for 45mins
12.45 for 1pm nap - sleep as long as he likes
6.30 bed.

sounds odd, but worked for us. both naps were really easy to go down for a while. I know it's odd to shorten A time - and kind of goe's against what you have been doing, but worked for us.

hth.