How much sleep should a 14 month old be having in a day?

Depends where he is…if he’s at nursery we’re lucky if he gets one nap of 90 minutes. At home, he can do up to 3 hours across two naps.

No matter what he does in the day we tend to get 11-12 hours over night - the difference is whether he’s a misery up to bedtime or not.

My son is currently on one nap and it varies so much depending on when he wakes in the morning. It ranges anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours 😂x

2hrs in 1-2nap. Then night time 10-11hours.

Omg these naps sound amazing 😂!! I have twins… one of them has 1 nap of (max) half an hour and the other sometimes has 1, sometimes has 2 - but again.. only half an hour 💤

2/3 hours in 1-2 naps were transitioning to one nap so will either be a really long one or two shorter ones x

My son has 2x 30min naps 😩🤣 I don't know how to get him to nap longer. If he's on me he can go longer but then I can't get anything done.

the rest of us don’t have to worry about one child waking the other! It’s a miracle you get sleep at all!

Mine sleeps 12 hours at night and 1.5-2.5 hours in the day x

Thanks for all talking about it! I’m finding it a bit of a minefield. My little boy sleeps so badly at night, but has 2 naps in the day, 3hours in total. Thinking it’s maybe too much!?

For those of you that are on one nap, do you find this messes up your plans for the day a little bit? Do you do lunch before or after the nap x

if your baby is sleeping for longer stretches on each nap, I would personally say don’t drop it until it’s half an hour or less for one of the naps, then try to transition.

My son naps in the car, cot or pram so it never messes with where I am for him to nap. Sometimes he does fight his nap which he normally has around 11am (before food) so I keep him up until after around 1pm and he will have his nap then!x

normally an hour early in the morning then 2 hours in the afternoon. Feel like I’m in a bad cycle.. because his nights are bad he’s sleeping a lot in the day but I think then he’s not tired enough at night time. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

what time do you get him up from his second nap, and what’s the gap from that to his bedtime? I normally make sure my son is up at least 4 hours before bedtime, as I noticed he would refuse to go down otherwise. With having two naps the wake windows might not be long enough and it might mean he’s waking because he’s not fully tired x

First nap is 8-9 (so early but he’s always crying so tired!)
Second nap is about 1-3, bedtime at 7/8.
Last night he didn’t fall asleep until 10, he was awake 2 hours in the middle of the night, then woke up for the day at 6 and refused to be put down again 🤦🏻‍♀️

chances are it’ll be because he’s trying to catch up on his sleep from the previous bad night, so it’s a constant cycle. As hard as it can be I would try to just adjust his nap times and bedtime schedule slightly every day, try to push the first nap back from 8 to 8:30, then the next day 9 etc. I would also wake him up a bit earlier so he isn’t napping for two hours for his second nap! For the first few days it’s super hard because you can tell they’re cranky but it will ultimately give you some down time when your baby goes to sleep at 7/8 like you try to do. Depending on how he responds to the later naps he might naturally drop one and sleep for longer on the one nap. It’s all trial and error with them unfortunately x

thank you I have been thinking along the same lines ❤️ I’ll try what you’ve suggested and see how we go! X

fingers crossed it works for you and baby!🫶🏻x

I think they need around 12-14hours total. My little girl is still on 2 naps as she just cannot last in the morning, she'll need her first nap about 2.5hrs after waking up.
Typical day is up at 7, first nap half 9/10 - 11ish then nap 2 is around half 2 til 3.30/4. Bed for 8pm.
But this morning she was awake at 5.45am as she went to bed at 7 last night so she's already asleep so honestly who knows 😂 she is teething badddlllyyyy atm though. Xx

Mine has two naps usually 1 hour and 1 hour 15ish. But sometimes less at nursery but still always two naps