Hey everyone! My 10 month old has started refusing second nap - has anyone moved their baby on to just 1 nap this early?
This is his normal routine:
Wake at some point between 5:30-6:30š£
Nap 1 9/9:30-10:30/11
Nap 2 would normally start around 2:30-3:15 however he no longer seems tired at this time and heās difficult to get down. Once asleep I wake him up by 3:30 latest and he goes to sleep fine at 8.
It just seems so early but the second nap is getting difficult and I donāt want to end up pushing bed time later as Iām returning to work and would love the hour or two to myself in the evening.
Any advice greatly appreciated š¤
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Could you try capping the first nap so he's tired enough for the afternoon nap? š

This is exactly our current schedule (soon to be 10 month old) and I have toyed with the idea of 1 nap, because there are some nights where baby just wonāt fall asleep until 8-830.. Iāve been slowly pushing the first nap later by like 5-10 min intervals, and then ending the afternoon naps 5-10 min earlier each day with the eventual goal of going to one nap.
I donāt think itās optimal to have 1 nap this young, but every baby is different. My niece went to one nap around 10 months, and my nephew had two naps until he was like 18 months old.

I feel like heās waking that early because he isnāt getting enough daytime sleep. Should still around 2.5/3 hours a day at this stage x
Try this-
Wake 6am
Nap 9.15am - 10.30am
Nap 1.45pm - 3pm
Bed 6.45pm
how long are both the naps? X

Right now, Total daytime naps are usually around the 3 hour mark ā so both naps are roughly 1.5 hours give or take but I never let him go more than 3 hours total nap time during the day and I wake him up at 330 always. This week I am going to try to wake him up at 315 and see if that helps with bedtime!

Some days we do 1 nap like today he randomly slept in until 7 which he never normally does, but we would finitely not fit in 2 naps, so he slept from 11-12.15 and then had just fallen asleep at 7, not ideal but he was fine until then so just rolling with it