1 year old day naps

The last two days Jayden has driven me bonkers! Ive put him in his cot and two hours later (cause Im mean mum and wont cave in) hes still awake! hes tired rubbing eyes etc etc yesterday he went to sleep after two hours and today well hes still not asleep!

So what times should 1 year old have there day naps? maybe im putting him down to early even though he appears tired? and when do they have one nap a day? he pretty much is only having one now?

Ditto Fliss - Amelie still has a morning sleep and afternoon nap at around the same times. She usually goes down fine in the morning, but pulled a Jayden yesterday afternoon (2 hours talking in her cot, no sleep).

I hope she's not dropping a sleep, cause if she does I'm going to have to re-evaluate our care arrangements. >_<

And she's not a toddler - she doesn't toddle!

I don't remember when we dropped to one day sleep but it was when he was doing things like that. Since he's had one day sleep he has lunch at 11:30 and goes to bed at 12

It definitely sounds like he's ready for transitioning to one sleep. Tomorrow if he's not looking tired at first nap time go and do something else like the park etc to keep him stimulated, come back have early lunch, then a bf/bottle then down for one nap. And see how it goes. Often babies will do 1 nap one day then 2 the next. Also if he wakes from his nap early, say 1pm, he will need to go to bed earlier. Watch his tired signs and if he goes to bed at 6pm instead of 7 then that's what he needs.

My son is just doing this at the moment and i find keeping him up till 12 ish gives me the best chance of him still being up for a 7pm bedtime and getting to see his daddy before bed. He's still doing 1 nap, 2 nap though depending on how he's feeling.
If your son isn't walking yet when he does he may go back to 2 naps as well as he'll be more tired. Watch his tired signs.

Spencer dropped down to 1 sleep at that age, I just started giving an early lunch and then putting down around 11.30-45 and that worked well then slowly his nap got later and later so that he was going down around 1pm.

We dropped to one sleep at around 11mths as Hayden was waking at 5am, he has always only had 2 sleeps right from newborn (unless in the car/pram etc) so it kinda made sense that he'd move to one sleep sooner than average I guess. Anyhow he cant make it to lunch time just yet so our day starts around 7am, then nap at 11am with a big morning tea and quiet time watching Thomas the Tank Engine before and he'll normally sleep for 2 hrs and every 2/4 days it will be 3hrs to catch up and then have lunch when he gets up and bed at 7pm. It took about a week or so for him to not look so tired at 9.30am which was his old first nap time but he soon adapted and it solved the 5am wake up problem.

It sounds to me that Jayden is ready for one sleep.

Hey Kylie,
It's so hard knowing what to do huh.. I just followed Dakota's queue.. On Monday, she decided she didn't want her afternoon nap and layed in bed talking for about an hour then started throwing a wobbly.. (She would only do this every once in a while)

I got her up and she stayed awake ALL day and just got grumpier and grumpier - I had had enough by 6.30pm, gave her an early bottle and she slept like a log till 8am..

I then decided maybe she only needs one sleep a day.. Think all littlies are different and you just need to go with your gut but last 2 days, only doing arvo naps and she is golden.. Little tichy around 10am but a cracker cheers her up.

So now, my routine is: Up at 7am, M Tea at 9am, Lunch at 11am, Nap at 1pm and she's been sleeping till 3.30-4pm..

All the best mate - hope you find a routine that suits you soon..
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