Having Sleep problems...Help!

Try to give him 11:00 lunch (keep him up till then) and put him down to nap after that. Then he might take 2 or 3 hrs nap and then might sleep later in the morning. If he is still waking up too early try making is bed time 30 minutes later. I have three kids, and after 1yr they were usually taking 1 nap unless they were sick or whatever. As he gets older he is going to sleep less. By the time he is 2 or 2 1/2 they do give up the naps. My 4yr will only fall asleep in the car or sometime when I think he needs it I will put a video and he'll fall asleep watching.

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Sounds like your son is ready to transition to one long nap a day. My son was about the same age when that happened with him. We put him down around 12:30 or so to start. I know this is a sad time, but my son started out taking 3 or 4 hour naps (more if we were really lucky) and it was nice to have all that time in one big chunk instead of spread out.

I just wanted to add that our daughter has went through that a few times and we thought it was new sleeping behaviour we had to adjust for only to find out it was a side-effect of teething. Just think about it or look into it. Those pesky teeth have all kinds of side-effects (or growth spert side-effects at the same time going on) and the last for months. Though I do think the sleeping changes have only lasted a month when it happened to us.

I would try to only give him a shorter nap in the mornings so maybe he will rest in the afternoon

I agree with Jack's Mom - start pushing back his morning nap slowly until it's after lunch and then he'll only have one nap. In the mean time, I would still consider keeping the "quiet time" in the afternoon whether it's 20 minutes or an hour, it gives him a break (and you). And as you move his name, push his bedtime back as well. Hopefully this will help.

Ugh! We've all been there--it's awful but just know it will get better with time. You could try pushing back his morning nap 15 minutes every day until he's taking one big nap in the middle of the day. This might be tough, but he eventually will go to just one nap, and it's usually sometime in the second year. If you try that, he might go back to sleeping in past 5:30, which would be great! Or, try waking him up early from his morning nap (only let him go one hour) and then he might go back to an afternoon nap. Good luck, and hang in there!

I would agree with all the comments so far. My daughter is now 23 months and would nap 2 times a day but only for an hour each - which wasn't working for our daily schedule (also have a very active 4.5 year old son). So, at the first of the year we started dropping the morning nap and just going to an early afternoon nap. So, we have lunch and then she goes down for a nap around 1230-1pm and my son has quiet time in his room for about an hour or so. She will sleep 2-2.5 hours and still go to bed at 8pm and wake at about 7am. My son on the other hand is an early riser. He has woken up at about 6am since he was 18 months old - no matter what we did - he wakes up at that time and still does. Just wait - when they are teenagers - we won't be able to get them out of bed! Hang in there and good luck to you! N.