11mo refusing morning nap

[soph259]

Hi,

My bub went down to 2 sleeps at around 6 months. She would sleep 7pm-7am then take a nap around 9am and one that started around 12:30-1:30 depending on morning nap length. We just found when she started refusing the 3rd catnap that we couldn't push her morning awake time and this staggered approach worked great for her. She went down without a fuss at these times for the last 6 months. Feeling grateful that she was so predictable and napped great for 3-4 hours a day plus all night!! However.... The last couple of weeks have been tough! I have had to push the morning nap out to 9:30-10:00 and a couple of times she has completely refused her morning nap. I even tried rocking her this morning until 10:30 but she was wide awake. She has never responded to patting or anything, so we have always just put her down and she might sook a bit but recently it is all out screaming, the same screaming we get when we change her nappy or try to dress her these days

So today I put her down at 12 and she woke at 1:30. The other time she refused her morning nap I put her down at 12:30 and she slept til 3:30! Are we just going through an awful transition? I'm wondering if she went down to 2 early are we also going to 1 early? Any advice appreciated!

7am wake and BF
8am breakfast
9:30-10am hopefully nap - I have been waking her at 11am for a while now
11am wake and snack
12:30-1pm lunch
2pm nap - usually 1-2 hours though can be 45mins of late
4pm BF
5:30pm dinner
7pm bed

[lauradj]

It sounds to me like she may be ready to start transitioning to one nap.  My DS was ready at 11 months as well and I just started pushing him to stay awake longer in the morning by 15 minute increments, increasing A time every 4/5 days.  I still kept an afternoon nap until I was confident he was fully ready and he was going to bed at 11:30/12:00 and sleeping 2-3 hours.  There was probably 3 weeks of sporadic EW's, which were rough but then everything evened out beautifully.     

[soph259]

Thanks for the advice! I will try pushing the awake times out. Obviously the afternoon nap will get later and later as well. How do you adjust bedtime for this? Does this have to be punched later as well?

[lily_layne]

Obviously the afternoon nap will get later and later as well. How do you adjust bedtime for this? Does this have to be punched later as well?

I know it's not much help to say so, but it really depends on the LO. My DD would have needed BT pushed out. I've found that DS (who is a similar age to your LO) will go to bed at 7 no matter how late the second nap ends. It just takes a bit of experimenting to figure out what works for your LO.