9 month old- can we he do one long midday nap?

amother

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 7:31 am

Anyone do this successfully and not have an overtired baby?
my nine month old will take long naps and this schedule will work so much better for my family so I can focus on the rest of my kids in the evening. Im wonderfing if I can consolidate already to do one long midday nap and an early bedtime?
Like:
Wakeup at 8am
Nap 11am-2pm
bedtime: 6:30pm

amother

Coffee

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 7:35 am

I work in a gan with babies who are that age.
We dont have any babies that age that take one nap. A few months older and they do from 11 - 1 or 2.
I think its asking a bit too much oc a 9 month old.

amother

Violet ↓

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 7:40 am

amother OP wrote:

I like waiting to 14/15 months. That way he can do lunch around 11:30. Nap 12-2. It’s more of a regular schedule for a baby /toddler then and easier with meal timings. Cuz now he’ll have lunch at 2? And dinner at 4/5?

Brit in Israel

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 7:41 am

It's a couple of months too young but you can try to cut the later nap to only 40 minutes and then bedtime at approx 7 depending on what time the nap was.
For some of my kids it worked

amother

Viola

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 7:42 am

amother Saddlebrown wrote:

Definitely too young for one nap

All my kids except my first had that schedule from around 4-5 months. They went to it on their own, I didn’t train them to take one nap. They each dropped their second nap super early.
And they kept that schedule until they were almost 3!!

amother

↑ Violet ↓

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 8:33 am

bsy wrote:

It's generally too young. Not before 13 to 18 months

A lot of times in daycares once’s the baby is one and is in an older baby room they switch to one nap so they don’t have a choice (of course on weekends can do two) but many babies adjust fine at 12-14 months. But if there’s no reason to (not in daycare etc) then I don’t see why need to have the child drop a nap this early.

amother

Ebony ↓

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 8:55 am

amother Violet wrote:

My 15 months old wakes at 6 (sometimes b4) and naps 12-2. He goes to sleep at 7.

I wish he would wake up later.

I’m the OP that posted this morning about my baby waking up before 6.

amother

↑ Violet ↓

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 9:01 am

amother Ebony wrote:

My 15 months old wakes at 6 (sometimes b4) and naps 12-2. He goes to sleep at 7.

I wish he would wake up later.

I’m the OP that posted this morning about my baby waking up before 6.

7pm to 6 am is so amazing. I’m jealous lol. My two year old goes to sleep at like 9 and still wakes up during the night, count your blessings lol. I mean you can try to do a 7:30 bedtime and maybe he’ll wake up at 630? You can also try cutting the nap by a half hour and see if that makes a difference. It doesn’t hurt to trouble shoot. But 7pm ton6am is literally amazing

amother

DarkCyan

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 9:05 am

At 9 months, my oldest still needed 3 naps!

My current baby is 9 months, I don't think she would be able to manage with 1 nap, she takes 2 naps every day.

At this age, they need like 4 hours of daytime sleep, and they are unlikely to sleep that long in one go, so I'm not sure that one nap would allow for enough sleep.

amother

↑ Ebony ↓

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 9:12 am

amother Violet wrote:

Putting him to sleep later doesn’t help.

↑ bsy

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 9:12 am

amother Violet wrote:

12 to 14 is closer to 13 than 9....

amother

↑ Violet ↓

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 9:16 am

amother Ebony wrote:

Putting him to sleep later doesn’t help.

How about having nap be only 1.5 instead of 2 hours? Again, 11 hours straight is so amazing. I’m sorry that it’s rough though. I really would try for yourself to get to bed as early as you can if possible.

amother

↑ Ebony ↓

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 11:53 am

amother Violet wrote:

I’ll try that. I really need the 2 hours to get things done if I’m up early with him and busy taking care of him.

I can’t go to sleep early. I have teenagers who are up till 10’ish.
Today I put him down at 11. Maybe that’ll help? He was so tired from being up at 5:30.

Thanks for making me appreciate that he sleeps through. I used to think it’s a given because my timers kids slept 12 hours from when they went to sleep.

amother

↑ Violet

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 12:08 pm

amother Ebony wrote:

Right but if you shorten the nap then you may get your mornings back somewhat. Something is going to have to give- either shorter nap which may lead to later wake up. Or longer nap but then early wake up… can’t really have both (unless someone has a perfect sleeper than wow good for them lol). And no no it’s Not a given to sleep 12 hours straight… babies and toddlers are always going through sleep changes and need us at night still!

amother

↑ Ebony

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 12:10 pm

amother Violet wrote:

I’m the OP of the ongoing thread “baby wakes before 6”
Join me there. I don’t want to derail this thread.

amother

Ultramarine

Thu, Dec 21 2023, 2:14 pm

It probably depends on the kid. See how he does. I personally have found that trying to put a schedule on my babies backfires, works much better to observe and follow their natural rhythms as much as possible. I had one kid taking one 5 hr nap at around 3 months. Because when he was due for his morning and afternoon naps I was driving carpool, and had to be woken, so he naturally consolidated it on his own. He did fine.