Sleeping Patterns of a 10 Month Old

My granddaughter who is 26 months now used to take two naps a day and we just had to result to one nap when she was 18 months old , so now she only takes a nap around 1130 or 12 noon and is up by no later then 2pm and is down for the night around 7-8 pm . The trick is to keep them busy in the morning to keep them up longer in the mornings. However, we do miss the two naps since WE had more time to do things while she was asleep. She is doing well with the schedule change and it took a couple of days to get used to.

Good luck
C.

A.,

Just a thought, try putting your child down earlier for a morning nap, depending on how early they wake up, and then try for an earlier afternoon nap, to try and aid getting your child down earlier then 9:30p.m.

Hi A.,

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Hope this helps!

I'd be hesitant to cut a nap at this age. I have one just a few weeks younger, and he did something similar a while back. We ended up pushing his bedtime back an hour because that is what he needed. To keep him from being up so late, but still give him his hour I would adjust his schedule by waking him up earlier in the morning a bit earlier each morning until he is up a full hour earlier. Then the rest of his day would be naps at 11 and 3, then to bed at 9:30. With my first 2 (I have 3), they did not give up 2 naps this early (and from what I know shouldn't), and when they were ready they started not sleeping as long for the first nap. However, it could be that he is just excited about life right now, and wants to experiance more instead of going to sleep. If that is the case, it will pass soon. That is very common at this age. If you do cut a nap, I found that when my girls did that in the past, I actually got more done because I had 3 solid hours of my time instead of my day being chopped up by naptimes. Good Luck!

I used to give my twins a 10am-1030am nap and a 1:30-2pm nap after lunch with the baby food. Children need these 2 naps according the the peditrician until around 18months for down time and for Mommy sane time(: I used to give the bottles as fillers right before their nap and baby food for a breakfast and a lunch. The milk can be a soother and when they transition over to regular milk it can still be a soother in a sippy cup.
My kids are almost 3 and like milk an hour before bed and then we brush their teeth. They love sitting down with Mommy and Daddy filling their belly for bed.

Both my kids were good sleepers with a solid sleeping pattern.
Mom of twins

hi A. ,
i'd myself would start skipping the 2nd nap hes at the age where i nap a day is fine
good luck L.

4pm is too late for a nap. Maybe gradually delay the noon nap to about 1 or 2pm.

I would recommend switching to 1 nap a day. Just delay his first nap or try and cut out his second nap and put him to bed for the night at 7. My kids actually sleep longer when I put them to bed at 7 instead of 9.

It is probably time to take him to 1 nap a day. Move the first nap a little later and do away with the second and move bedtime up a bit. It will take a few days for the new schedule to take but it should help. That has been what I have done with my 4 girls and it worked well for me.

Maybe u should cut out one of his naps. after lunch lay him down and he should take a nap . I have three girls and i cut that second nap out about 10 mo. Good luck

I understand completely how you feel. Ever since my daughter was and infant until now (she is 7 yrs. old) she has always gone to bed late. To this day she does not go to sleep until 11 or 11:30 even on school nights, but she gets up at 7 or 7:30 every morning. Some kids will just go through a phase and some are just night owls. My son has always gone to bed much earlier, even now at 15 some nights he is asleep by 9:00. Everyone says that the second child is always so much different then your first and I believe them 100%.

Both of my girls were great sleepers almost from the beginning (sleeping 5 hours almost from the time we brought them home, really sleeping through the night, 8+ hours, by a couple of months old; my oldest, a boy, was a different story), but they both hit rough patches around 9 months. It would take a lot of work to get them to sleep, and they would wake up several times every night. Since my girls share a room, I couldn't let her cry it out so I usually laid down with the baby on my chest on the couch until she fell asleep (she preferred that to rocking) and I could put her in her crib. It really seems to be a phase that coincides with their newfound mobility and activity; there's just so much they want to do and they don't want to slow down to go to sleep. So my adivce is basically to hang in there and rest assured that you will most likely get your good sleeper back. My youngest is now almost 14 months old, and I can once again put her in her bed at 8:30 and have her go right to sleep on her own and sleep through the night!

Move his first nap to later in the day and skip the last nap. You may have to do this in gradual increments. But, once he's a year, he will only need that one nap for a long while.

Your daily routine needs to be adjusted. If he is going to be at 11:30, then he probably needs two things: More activity during the day and starting his afternoon nap earlier. Gradually work toward this in small increments--15-20 minutes earlier each day so he will wake up by 3:30 p.m. It is important that he goes to bed earlier so he will be healthy.

We began having the same problem with my son who had always been a good sleeper around this time. His bedtime was 8:30, and he began having trouble falling asleep. We found that moving his morning nap back a little and eliminating his afternoon nap worked. He's 18 months old now and he still goes down for his nap immediately after lunch and can sleep up to 3 hours.