Tips on dropping to one sleep

[superbaby]

My DS (11mths) who wakes about 7am is now wanting to go to sleep around 10.30am (at which I am only allowing a nap of 40mins max)and then he seems to be fighting an afternoon sleep around 2.30-3pm. It looks like he may be transitioning to wanting only one sleep per day??
Any tips on how to make this transition? I don't really want to put him to bed any later in the afternoon as this will mean his bed time becomes progressively later.

[Chickadee]

I can only tell you what we went through. Someone else may have real advice :rolleyes:

The transition from 2 naps down to 1 took 4 to 6 weeks. During that time I just tried to be flexible, ignore the clock and take my cues from DD. Really going back to basic tired signs. There was no real pattern from one day to the next, some days she'd have one nap, sometimes 2. On days with 2 naps the 2nd one might be late in the afternoon, but bedtime didn't shift too bad with her still being in bed by 8:30 or 9. But the general pattern over several weeks was that her morning nap shifted later and later till it was around lunchtime. Usually she'd have a snack before that nap though sometimes she was so tired she didn't want to eat and so we'd have lunch after. I tried to be flexible with snack and meal times, going towards a feed-play-feed-(play)-sleep pattern rather than feed-play-sleep like with more naps.

[JanetF]

We have no routine, I've always just supported my son's needs. At a certain point when he still had 2 sleeps, I'd try to lie down for his sleep and he'd just play, flap and not go to sleep. My plan for that was always to just get up and try again in a little while in case I'd read his signals wrong or he'd suddenly woken up a little LOL. So after trying once or twice more and he wouldn't go to sleep I figured he was weaning me off the 2nd day sleep. It was painless :)