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.