How many naps is your baby having?

Mine seems to want to drop to one nap but he keeps waking up super early around 4 or 5am and then wants to nap early too. If I roll with it he’ll nap around 10 or 11. Only for an hour or two max and then be up for the rest of the day. I let him do that today. Yeah. He wanted to go to sleep at 6. I let him. Bad idea. He took a nap instead. Now it’s nearly 10 here and he’s playing. 😑
Tomorrow I’m going to push him to stay awake until 12 noon. Have him nap 12 to 2. Hopefully 3 so he’s good on day sleep and have bedtime at 7. Hope for the best. Wow I’m exhausted.

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We moved to 1 nap, but still have some 2 naps days. It’s definitely confusing I’m in the thick of it so don’t have any advice right now other than do what you feel your baby needs & if that’s not right do the next thing 😆

Mine was doing same thing. But I recommend don't push the hours...He will be overtired and he will wake up often during the night. Instead of doing one nap. Do the first nap 30 min. Sample schedule

7.00 am wake up
9.30 am - 10 am first nap
12.45 pm - 2.45 pm second nap
7.00 pm bedtime

First nap schedule usually starts when they around 14 months. Right now they are acting like they want to do one nap but unfortunately their wake windows are not that much :/

My baby was super sleepy at 10 am today after waking up at 7 so I let him nap at 10:30. Hope he sleeps well. I remember it was easy to transition to one nap with my first at this age because he woke up later. Around 8:30/9 am everyday so waiting until 12 noon to nap was simple.

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