Strange sleep development

[Sazzy]

What times?

 

[FutureHKmom]

Sazzy - for the dropping 2 naps to 1, you mean for a baby who is older than 1 year, right?

 

[southside852]

yes, baby starts to drop his/her nap after 1....my son was late and dropped it around 15/16 months.

i think when we first transitioned the naps, we would see how long he could go before he go tired. this usually meant eating lunch at 11am instead of 12/12:30pm and then nap time was around 11:30/noon depending on what he was doing that morning. our son in the early stages would sleep for about 2.5 hours during nap time then bed at 7/7:30pm.

 

[Lisainhk]

I'd really like to give the sleep fairy a try. Sounds good! Thanks for the link.
My son is 8 months old (almost). Does he really need to drop to 1 nap? I don't think he can handle it. He has 2 - 3 naps (one for 30 mins, one for an hour and one for 1.5 hours usually). I was kind of following this book called the NAPS plan which follows the babies sleeping patterns so I would put him to bed when I saw his sleepy signals. My friend's baby is 6 weeks older than Baylee and she sleeps 2 x 2hour naps and 12 hours at night so I'm kind of concerned about dropping to 1 nap when he already only sleeps 10 hours at night (not straight through) and has about 3 hours of naps all together.

 

[Sazzy]

LisainHK - How about dropping to 2 naps? Every mum knows their own baby so its up to you. Or you could try waking him early from his last nap??

Obiwan - what times does your baby currently nap?

 

[Lisainhk]

Sounds good Sazzy. Thanks for the advice

 

[hkmom1]

I had the same issue and i also just let him cry it out. it took about 3 nights and first night he cried for a good 45 minutes. but now he goes to sleep by himself no problem or with just a minute or two of wimpering to wind down.

 

[Obiwan]

hkmom1, how long did it take for the crying to reduce?

 

[Obiwan]

LisainHK - How about dropping to 2 naps? Every mum knows their own baby so its up to you. Or you could try waking him early from his last nap??

Obiwan - what times does your baby currently nap?

Hi Sazzy, 10+am, 2+pm, for a total of 2 hours a day.

 

[Lisainhk]

I did that too HKmom1 and he cried for 1 hour. It was torture! But the last few nights he hasn't had much problem at all going to bed which is good. But he has decided to wake up 3 hours earlier and stay awake hehe. Sigh. If it's not one thing it's another.