Dropping Naps?
Hi Ladies,
Just wondered at what age did you LO's transition from 3 naps to 2?
My DS is almost 8 months (in 11 days) and is starting to fight almost all his naps. When he does nod off he'll wake up happy after 30 -45 mins. He sleeps through the night from 7pm - 6.30am.
He generally naps at 9.30 then 12.30am the 4pm......I'm wondering if I should keep him up later so that he naps for longer at 2 naps rather than catnaps at 3.
Many thanks
xx
Just wondered at what age did you LO's transition from 3 naps to 2?
My DS is almost 8 months (in 11 days) and is starting to fight almost all his naps. When he does nod off he'll wake up happy after 30 -45 mins. He sleeps through the night from 7pm - 6.30am.
He generally naps at 9.30 then 12.30am the 4pm......I'm wondering if I should keep him up later so that he naps for longer at 2 naps rather than catnaps at 3.
Many thanks
xx
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You should hopefully find that he sleeps for longer, and like you say, have proper sleeps rather than little naps, but if it doesn't work (give it a week or so, before making a decision) you can always swap back - no harm done.
If you delay his morning nap (maybe try and keep him up until 10:30) you MIGHT find that he starts to sleep in later in the morning (sounds crazy - but I know of a few babies who have started to have longer lie-ins after their morning nap was pushed back! My Abby included! Yay!) then if he can have and hour and a half ish, and wake up at 12.00, you could try to keep him up until 3.00 (and hopefully he'd sleep until 4:30) then hopefully he should be OK until bedtime. (I think that's what we did at that age).
You might need to put him to bed earlier for a few weeks while he gets used to the new routine, but then you can push that back a little, and then bring it forward again, when he goes down to just 1 nap!)
Hope the helps and wasn't just a big load of waffle!
Nx
Hope that helps
CG xxx
Gonna see how we go today with 2 naps (if he'll allow it).....my only concern is that he normally has his afternoon bottle at 2.30pm and worried he may nap beyond that. I guess I could give his bottle before nap. Thanks ladies xxx