When did your child drop a sleep?

**Marley&Me** · May 28th, 2014, 05:05 PM

For the past 3 days or so DD has been skipping sleeps. It's usually around 9:30am and she sleeps for 1.5-2 hours. But this morning she didn't go to sleep until about 10:30am. And she's refused her afternoon sleep for 3 days now. So she's going from 11-11:30am to 7:30-8pm with no sleep at all.

10 months a a bit young to be transitioning to one sleep isn't it? When did it happen for everyone else?

**Ca Plane Pour Moi** · May 28th, 2014, 05:39 PM

Liebs went from 3 to 2 at about 8m, to 1 at 9-10m, and no day sleeps at all by 16m.

If baby is happy, feeding, learning, then there is no problem on that front.

**Peace** · May 28th, 2014, 05:49 PM

Hey tasha, lots of the mums at my play group are saying the same thing at the moment and we all have kids about the same age. I think it must be pretty normal for their age... My little one is sleeping less during the day too.

**Marley&Me** · May 28th, 2014, 05:59 PM

She seems to be refusing the afternoon nap more. It's frustrating because she's been in this routine for ages now!

Maybe I'll skip the morning nap if she refuses it another few times. I'd rather skip that one and then aim for a bigger nap around 1pm or so. Hmmmm, unsure as this is my first child :/

**Saffy** · May 28th, 2014, 06:34 PM

My DD went to 1nap at 10months, she had a bit of a relapse to two during the next wonder week around 11 months otherwise always has one.

One is easier for me as she used to sleep for 40mins at a time, now she sleeps anything from 1.5-2.5 hours

**Joeve** · May 28th, 2014, 09:24 PM

We just lost the arvo nap 2 weeks ago so 15 months. She has a long morning sleep and has had 2 random afternoon 30 min sleeps due to being unwell.
I miss the afternoon one!!

**~Gee_Whizzy~** · May 28th, 2014, 10:21 PM

Both my DDs dropped their morning naps at 9 and 11 months, respectively. DD1 (now 5yrs old) dropped naps just last year at 4.5yrs. DD2 (now 3yrs old) still naps in the afternoon anywhere from 1-3hrs depending what we've had on.

**OceanPrincess** · May 28th, 2014, 10:39 PM

I forced my boys onto one day sleep by about 12 months

I'm a lovely mum haha! No seriously, most pre-school activities are in the morning and I was always busy with the older kids so it suited us when they swapped to one sleep. DD though I think it wasn't til about 15 months. But the boys, much earlier.

**Marley&Me** · May 29th, 2014, 10:36 AM

We just lost the arvo nap 2 weeks ago so 15 months. She has a long morning sleep and has had 2 random afternoon 30 min sleeps due to being unwell.
I miss the afternoon one!!

Joeve, was this hard? I would have thought that the morning nap is dropped first so there isn't a huge gap of awake time before bed.

So I have put her to bed at 10 instead of 9:30 and she went to sleep in about 10 minutes. I'm going to try the arvo nap at 3 instead of 2 and see how she goes. I just found some info in the printouts that the sleep school gave me when dd was little. It has a rough guide and at 10-15 months the sleeps move to 10am and 3pm, all makes sense now!
I need her naps, it's the only time I can actually sit down and get stuff done

**RainbowRiver** · May 29th, 2014, 10:57 AM

DD3 is just under 13 months and down to one 3hour nap in the morning 11-2 (sometimes til 3). She dropped her second nap a bout a month ago when she got sick. She still is so i thought she would need the extra nap.

More fun with mumma being awake

**HotI** · May 29th, 2014, 11:23 AM

about 6 months, but they dropped all sleeps early. i'm aware they are not usual sleep patterns.

**vic261** · May 29th, 2014, 03:15 PM

Jack has a sleep at 10am till 12pm. Then we try for an hour at 4pm till 5pm. Most days he will sleep but have noticed that lately he has rested. He goes to bed between 7 and 7.30pm and normally sleeps through till just after 6am. He is at day care 4 days a week and is so busy he needs his morning sleep and afternoon nap. He is getting better if he misses the afternoon one. He used to lose it at 6pm and couldnt cope/ eat/ bathe without being emotional. I find Fridays he is really tired and loves being home and sleeps more.

**Marley&Me** · May 29th, 2014, 06:18 PM

Thanks ladies

She seems to be doing much better by just shifting the sleep times by an hour. I also dropped one milk feed, it was only a small 90ml one at 11am, but since she sleeps from 10am-12 she misses that time slot. But she isn't phased at all because now she wakes and has lunch. And she ate lots of lunch today!