One sleep a day - when?

My DS dropped back to one sleep at 10 months - it felt really young to me - but made it easier to get out and about when I didn't have to fit 2 sleeps in! Also he went down at night muich easier/earlier.

DD dropped hers about a year, but then went on to drop her last sleep just over 2,now that really sucks!

Usually 10am and 2pm. Today, though, he didn't go to sleep till 11am (he was super-happy so I put him down later, and then he played in his cot for half an hour before going to sleep).

He's a shoddy sleeper, most sleeps we only get one sleep cycle out of him. I guess I could hope he'd have a longer sleep if he just had one, because one 45-minute sleep a day doesn't feel like a lot!

DS was around 11 months when he dropped to one day sleep, he's been on just one since then but the times have moved to suit as he's gotten older.

I am hoping he doesn't drop that nap anytime soon!!

Also 11 months here when we made the transition from 2 to 1 nap. DD used to have one mid-morning and one early afternoon nap of about an hour each and then swapped over to 1 two to three hour nap starting anywhere from 10:30am to 2pm. She still has 2 on occasion, but we're mostly at one these days.

I would try and make the morning sleep as close to 12 as you can get, gives you a later bedtime. When mine dropped to one nap, at first i would give him a lunch at 10.30 and another at 2. Full lunches, otherwise like you say they get too tired to eat. After a few weeks they will be fine with it.

If they got sick tho sometimes mine would have 2 naps.

To stretch the nap later i would carry them around a bit having cuddles, looking at the plants and listening to music for the last bit, trying to keep them awake but quiet.

DS has two sleeps still, unless we're out and about. But he's much happier having two. He doesn't sleep well At night though so I think that is why he craves daytime naps. He generally goes down around 10 and 2 for an hour and a half each time and in bed for the night at 7

Well, he slept well the first night, but woke up ready to go at 3am I managed to get him back down, although he woke every hour till six when he was up for the day (his usual time, though).

Yesterday he was at creche, and just had one sleep - he was melting down by the time we got home, and screamed through tea - I rushed him to bed as fast as I could and he went down at 6.15. He woke at 5.30am, I got him back down till 6 again.

Today, one sleep again, and he's playing happily now (6pm) after a good tea. So it looks like it might have been the right call

Mine was quite young too - I can't remember exactly but it was definitely before he turned 1. I'd try for 15 mins or so to get him to sleep, and if he didn't want to, I figured he wasn't ready to sleep and wouldn't try to force it. You can substitute a quiet time instead, like listening to music or having a story, so they still get a rest.