When did your kids go from one nap to two?

My kids still nap from 10:45-12 and from 3:30 to 4:30-5...but I have noticed this week each baby will refuse either the morning or the afternoon nap. Although they play, they aren't crying or anything...they aren't sleeping. Would you move the nap to just one? If so, do you move it to 12 or 1 to whenever? Just curious what everyone else is doing/has done. TIA!

 

My babies have only ever had 1 nap and that is a morning one.

They wake around 6.30 and then go back to bed around 9.00am for about 2 hours usually, sometimes more. Then they go to bed at 5.00pm for the night.

My older girls did this too.

My son used to nap 2 times a day though. He would have about an hour in the morning and then an hour around 2.00pm. He stopped the afternoon nap when he started Nursery at the age of 3.

 

We are working on going down to just one nap now, and mine are 17 months.

I think each baby is different. My oldest went to one nap around 18 months. But with school starting for my older DD at the end of Aug. I've got to get Emilie and Trevor to one nap by that time.

 

We were about 16/17 months when we switched to 1 nap.

 

My girls will be 2 next weekend and we're STILL doing two naps a day. They really don't seem to be in any hurry to drop one of them and on days like Sundays when they only get one after lunch, the evenings are horrible! Now that they will be going to daycare in the next month or so, we've got to try to drop one of the naps.

 

I tried at 15 mo with no luck and at 18 mo tried again and it worked

 

Mine did 2 naps up until 22-23 months.

 

Thanks everyone, I will just hold off for a little while then! I just wanted to make sure I wasn't "behind" on the nap dropping.

 

We are in that struggle, too. They still do well with 2 naps...super cranky with one. I am guessing in the next couple months we will try to make it officially 1/day.

 

We switched early at 13-14 months. My dd could have had two naps for longer but I just wasn't willing to have them on two different schedules and she did adjust well. It was just a long slow transition taking atleast a month to really get consistant.

 

We've just made the transition. Been at one nap consistently for about a week. It starts early (11:30-11:45am), but we're working on pushing that back with the ideal start time of 12:30pm.