Ready to drop second nap at barely 11 months?

[DanishMom]

My name is Christine.  I have a daughter, Emma, who is 10 1/2 months old.  I stay at home and love every minute of it. Being a first time mom, I often wonder how to make the right decisions re Emma. 

I have the following question re Emma's nap schedule:

Up until a month ago Emma has been a great sleeper.  She sleeps from 6pm to 6am. 
Takes her first nap from 8am-9:30am.  Her second nap from noon-1:30pm.   A month ago she started not sleeping during her second nap.  She crawls around her crib and talks until I pick her up 1.5 hours later. I am not sure what to do as my friends all tell me she is too young to drop a nap.  I have read in several books that some babies do move to one long, mid day nap earlier than others.  Any advice?

Secondly, if she is ready for one long nap, when should I start it? 

Thank you,
Christine     

[*Jo*]

Hi Christine, well to be honest, no i dont think shes ready to drop to one nap, what usually hapens at this stage is they start changing their sleep needs, so for her age group she is looking at around 3-3.5 hours A time, your A times look really good, but what might need to happen is you will have to shorten her first nap a bit in order for her to be tired enough to have a full sleep in the afternoon, so perhaps shorten it to 45mins and then give her a second nap at 11am and see how that works out

[DanishMom]

thank you Jo. So I wake her up after 45min? I have never woken her up. Not had to at this stage.  Your little boy is darling :-)

[*Jo*]

thanks

yep you wake her up, i know its a weird feeling waking them up, i remember when i first had to do it, it was SO unnatural!! haha she may not be happy with you at first but after a couple of days she may adjust (Caleb never really did adjust, he HATES being woken up)