11 month old won’t nap

My little boy has been pretty good at napping, having two a day, up until these past few days. We’ve been doing the same nap time routine as usual but for some reason he is just fighting his naps and won’t go down. I’ve even tried feeding him to sleep as a last resort but he’s having none of it. Does anyone have any ideas or been through something similar?

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We’re going through similar at the moment!
Last week I started cutting out his morning nap and bringing lunch and the afternoon nap slightly earlier, but he’s seemed so tired the last few days so this morning I gave him a short morning nap which he went straight down for and then he’s just fought going down this afternoon even though I know he’s tired!
No tips for you, just solidarity! X

Mine went through this recently. I found he is able to stay awake for longer, so I have extended the wake window before each nap, and limit the naps to 1 hour so that we can fit both naps in. If he naps later than normal, I shorten the nap time further and find he is fine.

I did experiment dropping to 1 nap but it caused more night wakes so he is defo not ready for that yet. Good luck mama xx

Mine did the same, we dropped to one nap for a while. He would get tired really early like 5pm and we would put him to bed at 6pm.but now he is back to two naps. He goes through phases I think

Can he go longer to stay awake?! I was finding the same and kept him up longer and found this helped x

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