Naps?!? - Garden Grove,CA

I'd skip the second nap and put her to bed early. I always put mine down early enough that Dad and I had an hour or two before bed ourselves. Kids were tucked in at 7:30 until they were school age and then it switched to 8.

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We used a book called "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" and it helped tremendously when trying to figure out the "right" times for naps. Our son was typically up 7 to 7:30, nap at 9, nap again at 1:30 or so, then bed at 7 or so. He was still taking 2 naps at 15 months, but then we had to transition him to one, since he started day care. The book suggests that earlier bedtimes more naturally work with a child, but I think you can adjust it based on your times. The first nap should be no more than 2 hours after waking up, the second about 3 hours after waking from the second, if I remember correctly. Good luck!

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Maybe try to skip the 2nd nap, and do an earlier bedtime. My ODS gave up the 2nd nap right at 1 year, and that's what we did. My YDS is now 11 months and is starting to do better at night with only 1 nap mid day, so he's kinda in transition. I mostly follow his cues for nap, rather than a set time. Some days he still takes 2 naps, but some days only 1. Sounds like maybe your LO is starting to transition from 2 naps to 1, too.

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We get up at 6:30, nap from 9:30 till 11:30, 2nd nap from 3:30 till 5 or 5:30, then bed at 9. She is just over 12 months. I have tried to skip the second nap and it's a disaster. This schedule works well for us.

I agree with some other posters that 9:30 is way too late for bedtime. At that age my daughter was in bed by 6:30 and taking one long afternoon nap. (b/c of my son's kindergarden schedule i had to adjust her nap from 2 to 1)
She's probably fighting the afternoon nap b/c she is over tired. Good Luck!

Both of my daughters shifted to one nap around 11-12 months and it was early (like yours, starting at 11-11:30) and was sometimes as long as 3 hours. I think that your bedtime is too late. I would stick with the late morning nap and try bedtime between 6 and 7pm. Slowly that single nap will shift to a shorter, after-lunch nap as she gets older. (And, then eventually it goes away altogether...sigh...!)

babies have scheduales? mine didnt someone forgot to tell him they were supposed to have scheduales.

She's not ready to transition to one nap yet. I'd start her first nap around 11 and I'd start the second nap around 3. Another thought is to put her to bed earlier at night! 930 is really late. Both my kids are asleep by 8pm and they don't wake until 8 am. Anyway, either skip the second nap and put her to bed for the night around 6 or 7 or move her second nap earlier. Good luck!
BTW I highly recommend "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child!" it's a great book. :)

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She's not ready to transition to one nap yet. I'd start her first nap around 11 and I'd start the second nap around 3. Another thought is to put her to bed earlier at night! 930 is really late. Both my kids are asleep by 8pm and they don't wake until 8 am. Anyway, either skip the second nap and put her to bed for the night around 6 or 7 or move her second nap earlier. Good luck!
BTW I highly recommend "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child!" it's a great book. :)

6:30a/7:00a wake up
10:30a-11:45a nap
3:30p-4:30p nap
7:30p/7:45p bed

Try giving a snack or formula before second nap. That's why my 11.5 month old was fighting his second nap for a couple of weeks. He was hungry (even though he eats lunch at 1:00p/1:30p). Since we've started giving him a light snack, he takes his second nap like a charm.

Ditto re 9:30p bed time being late. Eventually, that wake up and bed time will need to be earlier for school purposes.

Good luck!

At 12 months my daughter was still on 2 naps.

7:00 wake up
9:30-10:30 nap
1-3 nap
7:00-7:30 bed

Starting at 15 months it was

7:30 wake up
11:30-1:30 nap
7:30 bed

We prefer the earlier bed time in our house because it give my husband and I time together.

Some kids just do better with an earlier nap. My niece will sleep much better if she goes down between 10:00 and 11:30am - then she will sleep for a few hours. This is the only nap she needs and it much better for her than trying to put her down in the afternoon.

My baby did this same thing.
I'd do the morning nap like you're doing.
Keep the afternoon nap for as long as she will do it (mine stopped at 15 mos. Maddening. ha ha)
Keep bed time same if she goes down.
Sometimes I would take my baby for a walk for the afternoon nap and he'd only nap for about 30 mins (an hr if I was lucky) which was fine.
So we did one 2 hr nap until just recently when he turned 22 mos. EEEk.
So now if I'm lucky I'll drive around for 30 mins for one nap and that's all I get. Yikes.
Appreciate those naps for as long as you have them because they go away eventually and I'm sad. ;)

shorten the morning nap, make sure she has enough physical activity & you should be okay. Most babies need two naps until 18-24 months.

My son is 13 months and this is his schedule:

wakes up at 6:30am then naps from 9am to 10am or 11am sometimes. Then naps again from 3pm to 5pm and goes to bed at 8pm. Sometimes his second nap might go til 6pm and he can still go to bed at 8pm. My son is very active and always on his feet so I think that's why he still needs his two naps.

All my kids still needed 2 naps at 12 months old. They generally gave up their second one around 16 months or so, but I've heard many kids give them up earlier. I would shorten the morning nap to half hour or so and them try to put her down for a second nap around 2:30 or 3.

You could also keep the one long nap and lay her down earlier. My kids always slept around 12 hours at that age, so maybe that will work too.