Around what age did your child go from two naps to one?
I don't think ds is ready for one nap but he hasn't been taking very good afternoon naps.

Nati I'm trying to remember but I'm thinking that by the time they were 1 that they were taking one nap instead of two on a regular basis. I know that still occasionally after that they would take two naps if one of them was interrupted and was short for some reason.

Stephanie :D

Right around 11 months. For about a wk, it was a difficult transition but then it was actually better than 2. Instead of resisting and usually missing his 2nd nap, we pushed his first nap back a couple of hrs. Where he used to get two 45 min naps, he started taking one 1 1/2-2 hr nap and seemed better rested.

Katherine has only been taking 1 nap lately. *SIGH*

She is only 7 months... she switched from 2 per day to 1 really long afternoon one instead. I can't get her back to her 1 nap in the morning and one in the afternoon anymore... I really liked those morning naps because I was usually still half-awake so I could go back to sleep myself... no more of that. LOL

Thanks for your replies. [thankssign]
Im gonna try to push his morning nap later and see if that will get him to take one long nap.

My ds just turned one and it was right around his birthday that he transitioned from 2 to 1.

ha ha! sometimes teo still takes two naps (2 yr old). mostly when he's sick. but it seems more around 18 mths he prefered one and ani too.

I think around a year old is when my DS started to take just one nap, after lunch. My DD just turned a year and her naps are more spaced out, but she still seems to do fine taking two. I do one in the morning about an hour and a half to two hours after she wakes up and the afternoon nap doesn't usually happen until between 2 and 3. If she misses the morning nap for some reason, she generally will go down around noon. I think it's another one of those things where you just follow their cues and do what you think works regardless of their age in months.

DD is now 21 months old, she was around approximately 14-16 months when she started cutting out the morning nap and just had an afternoon one. Now she is getting that she is not always taking the afternoon one either! SIGH! :)

My DD will be 1 in a couple of days, and we're having troubles with day sleeps at the moment, if she has 2 usually she wont go down til later afternoon then that means that bedtime is pushed right back, but if she only has 1 she doesn't sleep long and is then so grumpy by 5:30pm and is nearly falling asleep while eating tea :? I find it so hard to know what to do.

Grant has been down to one nap now for about 4 or 5 months, so at around 20 months.

All of my children were around the age of 1 yr when they went to 1 nap a day. I noticed they slept better at night with one nap too.

My son started just taking 1 nap a day around that time too. He then adjusted to a longer afternoon nap. Unfortunatley for my father (his afternoon babysitter) he has recently forgone naps altogether (age 3). My dad had gotten a little too use to taking a nap too during that time. I think he still needs one and my son doesn't! :lol:

All of my children were around the age of 1 yr when they went to 1 nap a day. I noticed they slept better at night with one nap too.

Here here!! :D

Yes my son stopped taking two naps around his first birthday and he does sleep much better at night now. Awesome how that works! He took two naps today but he is also not feeling well. As long as his nap is not late in the afternoon he seems to sleep pretty well at night.

This might help http://askdrsears.com/faq/sl11.asp

My ds would take three naps if we let him. it's so hard keeping him up from 3-7 and then by 7 he's overtired and doesn't go to sleep till 8:30. But his naps are always less than an hour

there is also this podcast on sleep from La Leche

http://www.lalecheleague.org/mp3/LLL_podcast_MarySheedyKurcinka_Sleep.mp3