My 11 month old has dropped to one nap a day (off her own back, she recently started refusing a morning nap) and as a result is having very long wake windows… She tends to have her nap at 12pm - 1pm and from there will stay awake and fight bedtime as long as possible, usually until like 9 or 10pm, meaning she’s awake for up to 9 hours in the afternoon/evening!!
I’m not really too sure what to do about it but when I’ve googled it, her wake windows at this age should be between 3-4 hours 😳 but in the evenings after being awake for 7,8,9 hours she’s still absolutely full of beans and crawling all over the house and laughing! It usually takes us pushing her around in the pushchair to calm her down enough to get her asleep..
Is anyone else in the same boat??
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Yes! My LO dropped to one nap about 2 weeks ago. But she's up from 6/7am- 1/2-2.30/3.30, then wide awake until 9ish 😂😂 driving me insane as I'm 39 weeks pregnant again and can't keep up with her energy levels 😂😂😂 x

Mine has been starting to drop the morning nap as well 😳
Today she was up at 7am, nap 12.45-2.45, bed at 7pm.
She would have napped for longer at lunch but I had to wake her up to get to her swimming lesson on time. She went down okay though!

My LO tried to drop her morning nap too and move her afternoon nap to 12pm but I just didn’t give in😂 changed up how we do nap times, and moved the first one earlier (apparently that works!) and it worked for us, she’s back on 2 naps now but I’m not sure how long it’ll last

Ours fought either his morning or afternoon nap a few weeks ago as he turned 11 months, we did one middle of the day nap for a bit as read it can be a sleep regression then he went back to two quite naturally

My 11 month old is fighting all his naps and bed time the last few days, I believe it’s normal at this age and is a sleep regression so keep persisting and she will hopefully got back to normal.

Yeah mine started to try to drop his second nap and I said helllllll no😂 it’s back but not sure how long for….

I think she sounds majorly overtired. Just before my little one has a meltdown he gets really hyper and energetic and it’s a sign they’ve gone too far in terms of wake window.
She should be getting 2-3hrs of nap time in the day at this age, if she’s not getting that then she should be going to bed early to make up for the loss of sleep during the day.
My little one goes to bed at 6-6:30 if he’s got a sleep deficit from the daytime.
This is what I read from sleep consultants so we always put little one down early to make up for lost nap time ❤️ xxx

I think the recommended wake windows are a guide, my little girl has 4-5hr wake windows but gets enough daytime sleep during her naps

oh wow!! Honestly it’s hard enough in this heat as it is let alone being heavily pregnant!! Congratulations and wishing you a safe positive birth 👶🏻🎉

ah ok it’s not just mine then 🤣 I wouldn’t mind so much if it meant she was exhausted enough to go to sleep easily at night but she fights it for hours and hours even after being awake for like 9 hours straight!!

how did you do it 🫠 my little girl is so determined she fully beats and kicks the crap out of me if I try to settle her for a nap when she’s not ready hahaha

I hope this happens for us too! She’s becoming so overtired and overstimulated by bedtime after being awake for 8 or 9 hours it’s just awful but I cannot force her to nap if she ain’t ready, she’s far too stubborn 🤣🤣

this is exactly what I’m thinking, I just don’t know what to do about it because if I try to settle her for a nap when she doesn’t want one she literally screams the house down and beats and kicks the crap out of me 💀 but it’s making bedtime so difficult!!

I kinda made it ‘not nap time’ if that makes sense? We wandered round her room. In her sleep sack with white noise on but she was awake and I held her upright. We’d just wander round, she’d try and put her dummy in my mouth and laugh (still does it) we’d look around the room and chat, I’d sing to her. Did that for 30 mins or so then she’d just put her head on my shoulder and doze off.. after a few days of doing it she came round to nap times again