One nap or two?

[Sorka]

DS5 is 8 months now and I'm having trouble getting him to agree to two naps a day. I try to put him down at 9-9:30 and if he does go to sleep he can sleep for 2 hours, but more often than not he will not sleep. Some days when I have had to keep him up to get the other boys to sport, etc I have found he can stay awake quite happily all morning then sleep at 11:30-12 for around 3 hours. Just seems a bit young for only one sleep. What are other babies of this age doing? I can't remember with the other boys. Only know that none of mine were still napping at 2 yrs and all run on next to no sleep!

[HotI]

My DS went to one sleep at 6 months. Can't remember exactly with DD, but between 9 and 12 months she went without naps before starting to have one again some days at 12 months. Some kids just seem to go go go and don't need much sleep.

[Ladylove]

Hi Sorka! I posted a thread about the 1-2 nap dilemma a couple of months ago- you might find some advice in there too. My baby is a girl and she stopped to one nap just shy of 12 months (I think! I can't even remember now!) but was showing signs at 10 months. The transition took a while in terms of dealing with an over tired baby who was not tired to go to sleep before it was too late in the afternoon but we gradually be tended her go-down time fro. About 9:30-10am to 11-11:30. I'd like to put her down later again, just after lunch but at the moment she's well tired by 11 so we'll see.

[Pholi]

My DS is 8 months today, and is transitioning from 3 to 2 sleeps a day. 3 sleeps is roughly 9-10, 12.30-2 and 4-5; 2 sleeps is 10-11 and 2-4. Except, it's a rare day that he actually sleep that long at each sleep. Today;s morning sleep was 10.30 to 10.50, and that was after 45 minutes of trying to settle him in the first place, and another 20 minutes of trying to resettle after, without success. So now he's grumpy and irritable and not only did I not get anything done WHILE he slept, I can't leave him alone now that he's awake because he's crying every 2 minutes! Argh!

After a max of 3 hours of being awake, he really needs a nap.

[Sorka]

Thanks guys - glad I'm not the only one with kids in this situation. I feel like him short changing him by not giving him more sleep but its just making both of us cranky.

Pholi I feel your pain. Hate it when you waste ages trying to get them to sleep then they sleep for 10minutes and you just think about all the things you could have been doing had you just kept them awake!

I think I might aim for two days with one sleep then offer him two sleeps the next day to catch up if he wants - for a few weeks anyway and see how we go. He's happy enough when he's awake and with the one sleep seems to get almost 3 hours sleep but with two would only get 2 hours so more sleep with one anyway. I think I just want him to stay little for a while longer - my last baby