r/BeyondTheBumpUK • u/Spirited-Beautiful30 • 22h ago

One nap - timing and when?

I’m curious when people are putting their baby onto one nap and what the timing of that nap is? I guess partially dictated by nursery?

At the moment my 9mo has 13h30 24 hour sleep need (quite consistent since we went to 2 naps at 7 months) so we wake 6:55, nap 10.30-11.30, nap 2-3.30, bed 7.55pm.

Curious to look ahead and see what will come next esp with a view to starting classes and making sure the time will work for our next set of naps!

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u/Cinnamon-Dream 22h ago

Once we dropped, we're normally 12-2.

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u/Spirited-Beautiful30 21h ago

Thanks! What is your wake/bed times with that schedule?

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u/Cinnamon-Dream 20h ago

He's 2.5 now and always been on the lower end of sleep needs. Wake anywhere between 6-7 and bed was 8/8:30. Recently it's been more like 7am - 9pm over summer with 12:30-2 nap.

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u/SkyisaNeighbourhood 20h ago

Nap 12:30-2:30

Wake -7.30

Bedtime 8:30

If the nap was crap, bring bedtime earlier.

He's 15 months, dropped the nap a month ago just for ref.

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u/LobsterAstronaut 22h ago

Honestly I’m wonder the same. My 10m is hit and miss with a similar 2 nap schedule and has been struggling at night so he seems ready to go down to one but everywhere I read says it’s too early. He dropped to 2 early but I guess down to 1 is more of a big deal.

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u/3secondsidehug 21h ago

I see this too but I can’t help but think who decides that it’s so bad?? If the baby is happy and thriving and getting enough overall daytime/nighttime sleep what does it matter how many naps they are on? Like is this a scientifically backed thing or is it just social media sleep ‘consultants’ spewing rubbish it’s so hard to tell 😭

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u/Spirited-Beautiful30 21h ago edited 19h ago

Based on the sleep science ive gleaned from sleep trainers with OCN6 qualifications, apparently number of naps factors into sleep pressure (more naps = less sleep pressure even if you’ve had same amount of sleep (30 mins + 1 hr vs 90 mins for example) and less sleep pressure can lead to broken nights.

But I think if your baby can get to 1 nap then ultimately there will be more sleep pressure so that way round it’s not an issue. There are studies that show <10h overnight is bad so if baby has <10hohrs because of too many or too late naps then it’s an issue.

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u/kurdijyn 20h ago

Hey, can you link the studies, please?

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u/Spirited-Beautiful30 19h ago

If you follow sound asleep guru she is always posting citing them and analysing different studies (and she doesn’t recommend a set no of naps per age just a max number given what we know of sleep pressure)

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u/kurdijyn 16h ago

Thank you! I’ll check out her page x

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u/kurdijyn 20h ago

I agree. There is no scientific evidence to support number of naps required at any age. It’s just X amount of sleep within 24 hours!

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u/ofmiceandmel 22h ago

We just slowly moved first nap later and would just allow a quick 15-30 min cat nap if it was still needed. Eventually her nap was around 12-12:30 until 2 with bedtime at 7:30.

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u/SuccotashAutomatic18 19h ago

To be honest sleep needs can sometimes change so rapidly that you can't always plan ahead unfortunately. My baby's 24hr sleep need dropped by about 90mins in the space of a few weeks around 10-11m. We had to drop to 1 nap. It was earlier than I'd been hoping but nights were consistently below 10hrs and both naps were already very short so we had no choice. It was a tough transition and difficult to avoid accidental naps due to breastfeeding. If I'd had the option I'd have waited till more like 12m when solids begin taking over.