He will go down for a morning nap really easily for 90 mins pretty much every day and sleeps well through the night. However, once he's awake (about 11am) he doesn't seem want a 2nd nap and has been more and more like this for the last few weeks. I've tried the same as the first nap (his cot with curtains closed and white noise), I've tried the car, I've tried taking him on a 90 min pram walk, I've tried exhausting him with play time and I've tried earlier/later wake windows. He sometimes goes down if I do the cot option but he cries for about 30 mins which I obviously don't like and it also seems to defeat the object of a nap!! Is anyone else in a similar scenario?!
He wakes up about 6ish, first nap at 9.30, wakes at 11, then nothing (and I daren't try after 4.30 as it's too near bedtime at 7-7.30 !
Please let me know 🙏
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I'm in the same boat! He'll often do a second nap really late on my husband once he's home from work but usually just a half hour. He struggles to settle on me now or in pram which is inconvenient 😅 goes down for the first nap fine in his cot. His bedtime is about 7.30 too and the late nap being around 4ish often doesn't affect this luckily. We wake him before 5. X
Oh this is reassuring! The pram walks used to work for me and have stopped!! Does yours ever skip the 2nd nap completely?! Mine has started doing this a lot (makes bedtime much easier as he's straight to sleep but I feel bad he's been awake so long!!)

It might be time to push his nap time back and do just one nap. My guy did the same thing. Slowly inch him towards 11am.
Oh really? I did wonder. This might help me with getting to groups on a morning as currently avoiding them all for his nap time atm!!
Thanks