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BabelFish
10-08-2009, 15:49
I'm just curious at what age your child/children went from two day sleeps to one.

My DD is just over 12 months and still has two long sleeps a day. She also sleeps 13 hours at night. She is a baby who loves and needs her sleep and so I'm not going to try to change anything (I like the break, too!).

For the past few weeks though, she's gone down a bit later in the morning (about 11.00 instead of 10.30) and she's sleeping for a LONG time in her morning sleep - 2.5 to 3 hours. She'll be up by 2pm, but then ready to go down again at about 4.30. I usually wake her up by 6 and then she'll be in bed by 8.

I'm wondering if I should cut out her afternoon sleep if she keeps on sleeping this long in the mornings - but I'm reluctant to do so and would rather her do it on her own and in her own time. I've done it once or twice to see how she would cope and, well, she doesn't really cope at all. She still needs that afternoon nap.

What do you all think?

cja
10-08-2009, 16:14
My DD went from two day sleeps to one at about 16mths. Could have done two shorter sleeps but she shares a room with my 2.5yr old and I wanted them to have their afternoon sleep at the same time.

My DS started to have one day sleep at about 14mths....but he never slept as much as my DD.

Maybe you will know it is time for one sleep when she pushes the sleep times back and you decide she is going to bed too late?

mum2bubba
10-08-2009, 16:58
Hayley went down to one nap from two at 9 months and Skye at 11 months. When they had their two hour naps they were two hours each and then when they only had one nap it was 2 hours after lunch. Skye still has her naps after lunch now (Hayley still had her til she was 2 and a half) though she doesn't always sleep.