10 Month Old Fighting the Morning Nap

This is more a response to the woman who mentioned Dr. Weissbluth's book. I can tell you right now that she is a little off on that. He writes that only a small percentage of babies lose their morning nap before 15 months of age, and then after that it goes up dramatically.

I agree that your baby is probably just going through a phase (or perhaps getting sick or teething). Just keep being consistent and eventually he'll go back to his regular routine. I thought my son was losing his morning nap around 13 months but he got pretty sick and then I found out he had an ear infection. Once all that cleared up he went back to taking his naps just fine. Just before 15 months we started having trouble with the two naps again but wasn't sick (this time he would take a long morning nap and then refuse the afternoon nap or he would take a very brief if at all morning nap and then a longer afternoon nap), so we decided to try the one nap schedule. It took a few weeks of him having to go to bed earlier to avoid him getting overtired but we eventually got him adjusted to a one nap schedule.

But again, babies do go through phases. My son was sick again recently and some days it was hard to get him to sleep a total of even 12 hours a day for a couple of weeks. Now that he's better he's been sleeping about 14 hours a day (usually 12-13 hours at night and a 1-2 hour nap during the day).

Hi N., babies go through various sleep patterns, now that he is a little older try moving his, nap time back an hour, and maybe offering him a snack before nap time. J.

My daughter stopped her am nap at around 20 months and my son who is 16 months still takes his am nap as well as his pm nap.L.

Dr. Weissbluth's book says the morning nap starts to disappear around 10 months of age.

You are very lucky - my 8 month old is still not (regularly) sleeping through the night! She goes down around 9 or 10 and is up at 3, and then again at 6:30 - 7 am. I long for the day when she goes to sleep at 7 pm!

I think they typically need the morning nap until about 16-18 months. It was somewhere near 18 months that my first baby dropped the morning nap. With my second, I decided to rearrange our schedule and drop his morning nap at around 15 months (he was napping a really long time in the morning, then only sleeping about an hour in the afternoon - I wanted the longer naptime in the afternoon when my older son was also napping!). For both of them, once the morning nap was dropped, I had to move up the afternoon naptime, making lunch a little early then down for nap immediately afterward.
If you don't want the battle for the morning nap, you could try skipping it then putting him down earlier than usual for the afternoon. If you take him for a walk or go somewhere in the car, he might get a little cat nap then be good until the early afternoon (my youngest often did this when we were trying to transition to only one nap a day). But if he is getting super fussy or cranky through the morning, that is a pretty good sign he still needs the morning nap. Since he is a good sleeper (as my babies were, too) he should be able to handle this adjustment without getting too sleep deprived as you figure out what his current sleep needs are. With my babies, it was really easy to tell if I was depriving them of sleep - they got really fussy and grumpy. Otherwise, they were pretty much happy all of the time.
He could just be going through a phase. We have had many of these types of phases with my two little ones, fighting a nap or bedtime. It usually lasts about a week or two with us. We're just getting through a phase now with my youngest (2 yrs)fighting bedtime. I never enjoy these phases, but we get through them! And you'll get through this one, too!

My children all dropped their morning naps on the early side, between 10-12 months, and they were not sleep deprived. It wasn't an absolute "no" on the nap until they were over a year, but for the most part, they didn't require it most days. If he's rubbing his eyes, I would assume that he still at least needs a snooze of some sort in the morning. When mine started fighting the morning nap a lot, I would take them on a walk or put them in their swing. They would usually then relax enough to doze for 15-20 minutes and wake refreshed and happy. Then, they would take a full afternoon nap of 2-3 hours. Another idea is that he could just be hitting a developmental milestone, like standing or walking, making him fight a nap. If so, that will pass as the experience becomes less novel for him.

Yes you're lucky :) nearly 12 hours is a nice long stretch to sleep. My daughter sleeps from 9pm to 7:30.
My daughter dropped her morning naps around 12 months but my son would only take one nap from age 6 months on, by age 2 he couldn't nap at all or he wouldn't sleep at night. I worked when he was that young and I had to fight with the daycare NOT to put him down for a nap, just have him do some quiet time or something. Everytime they forced him to take a nap, he wouldn't go to sleep at night for several hours past his bedtime and he would be awful.