Is he transitioning to one day sleep?

DS is almost 11 months old, and in the past week his day sleeps have changed a bit.

DS usually has 2 day sleeps of 1.5-2 hours each, and is generally awake 3-3.5 hour betwee sleeps. However, just recently he has started waking after a short amount of time for his first day sleep. A few times it has been only 5-10 mins, this morning he slept 20 mins before waking. He awakes happy, though still tired. I've tried resettling him, but he refused to sleep again until an hour or two later. When he goes to sleep then, he'll usually sleep for 2-3 hours. By the time he wakes up, it seems pointless to try and get an extra sleep out pof him, cause he'd be going down around 5pm - seems to make more sense just to try and get him to bed early for the night.

It isn't every day, but it has been happening a bit just recently. Is this the start of him transitioning to one day sleep?

i could have written part of you post myself! except we dont get 2-3 hours inthe arvo!
DD2 has been doing 20-40 mins in the morning and 40 mins in the arvo!

im no help at all as im having issues that im not sure how to solve :hug:

DS is a bad night sleeper, so I guess he's got to get his sleep some time, lol. Hopefully someone will come and give us an answer :).

our nights still suck too!!

:hug: Olive - that sucks.

Anyone want to give us an answer? :)

Bella did a very simular thing at about 9 months till about 11 months - she would have only on day sleep for about and hr and then would be in bed earlier. But not now.. she is now 13 months old and she now has 2 days sleeps of about 2+ hrs but will now go to bed latter at like 8.30 and will generally sleep through - all though with 2 molars coming through right now she is up at least once for a bottle and a snuggle with mummy and then back to bed and will sleep again til 8.00 - 9.00 in the morning.

Sorry that was my long winded way of saying that when I though that Bella was going down to one sleep her whole routin changed and its different now but better.

That really didnt help much huh! Sorry just our experiance!!

Kate

who really knows what our babies are thinking lol??
Byron has shortened his day sleeps to about 1 hour each (he has 2) and i can still get him to do 11.5-12 hours overnight (this includes a few wake ups :rolleyes:)

I have toyed with the idea of 1 sleep but am worried that he wont resettle after an hour and then i have cranky horrible baby all afternoon who geos to bet at 5pm but then wakes up at 5am!

Is he teething or anything? I do remember DS going through a similar thing around 11 months where he just wouldnt sleep for long during the day. I just let it run its course and he eventually went back to 2 x good sleeps. THis meant sometimes going to bed a little earlier or staying up a little later to accommodate him for a few weeks but it did just sort itself out. Dont know if that was really much help but you can always try 1 sleep and see.....

Maybe try pushing the time he goes down for his nap out a bit? Go 4 hours instead of 3, and see if this helps - maybe he's just not ready for a nap when you're trying it.
I do remember, as some other have said, that DD seemed to drop to one nap at 11months, but then around 13months, went back to 2 sleeps, although she also went through a stage of getting cold after cold at this point, so I put the extra sleep down to them.

Just when you think you have them figured out, they go do something different! lol!