Number of naps at 16mths

How many naps does your (approx) 16 month old have?

If possible, could you post your routine?


UP until 2 weeks ago, Elle was having 3.5 to 4 hours of nap time, spread over 2 naps. I think Elle she now needs less but the transition is not happening well so we have a big mess each day and then night wakings from overtiredness so I want to consider "manipulating" her routine a bit to see if we can get things back on track.

Essentially she is refusing her afternoon nap BUT she can't not stay up any longer than 3 hours first thing so we can't do 1 nap. She still seems to need 2 naps...if she doesn't have them the last hour or 2 of the day are all tears. I think perhaps I need to shorten her morning nap to 1 hour and then hopefully she'll go back to her longer afternoon nap.


Current routine
6.30 awake
7am up
10am nap
11.40 or 12noon awake
3.30pm...exhausted..try nap...won't sleep...just plays for an hour or more then gets up and is too tired to eat or play so goes to bed at about 6.30 with an empty tummy.   
Doesn't call us in the night but is awake a lot as a result of overtiredness during the day.

She used to nap 3pm tp 5pm then go to bed happily at 7pm. This has suddenly changed.

*Benjy's Routine*

8:30 - 9 awake/get up

Breakfast
Bath
Play
Morning tea
Play
Lunch
1pm (ish) Nap approx 2 - 2.5 hours
Play
Afternoon tea
Play
Dinner

8.30 Bed

The only thing I can think of to help with Elle's transition is to gradually push her morning naptime forward. Even if it is just 10-20 minutes per day over a couple of weeks so that she is eventually used to staying awake longer in the mornings and napping in the early afternoon for one long period.
If you can arrange to do some interesting things to keep her stimulated in the mornings (but not too stimulated so that she gets really worn out and it backfires the next day) it might help with keeping her awake a bit longer.

I hope this helps, good luck Fiona!

I could try.

In the past if I keep her up for more than 3 hour first thing she'll only do a 20 or 40min nap as she is too tired and then either needs another one within an hour or will not settle again for a another nap due to overtiredness.

Argh. Funny how even the best sleepers go through this funny stages.

We changed it around so that Ayja got up at about 7 and had brekkie, had early morning tea about9.30, lunch by 11.30 in bed by 12, she then would sleep until about 3.30/4 and have dinner bath etc and play then bed at 6.30/7. That's what worked for us. and now she's older she sticks with the afternoon sleep - goes down between 12.30 - 1, wakes 1.5 - 2 hrs later and still goes to bed at 7.   

Blake is doing......

Wake at 6:30
Breakfast 7
Back to bed at 9:30 - 10
Lunch 12
Back to bed around 2:30 - 3ish
Dinner at 5
Bed at 6:30

Has been for a while now...sometimes afternoon sleep goes out window.Latest I put him down for afternoon nap is 3....

Guess it depends on how busy they are...whether teething...whether out and about????

Brenna is nearly 15 months

7am - wake up, breakfast
Play
8.30 - bottle
Play
10 - morning tea
10.30 - 12ish - Nap
12.40 - lunch
Play
2 - bottle, rest in bed with a book for about 1/2 hour
Play
5 - dinner
6.30 - bath and bottle
7 - bed

These times are all 'ish'. Her drop from 2 sleeps to 1 happened at about 11 - 12 months and was a nightmare!!! Plunketline helped me to sort it out and now it's great. She doesn't always have a 'rest' in the arvo, only if she's tired.

Fiona we are having the exact samething with Mikey we just can't get him to last long enuf to have a midday sleep. When Alan was this age we would have an 11.30 linch tne bed form 12 till 3. course that won't work for mikey soon anyway with Alan soon to start kindy so we are just going to make do at the moment till kindy start's then hopefully get a dood routine before baby come's.

when rhyley is at daycare hes lucky if he has one sleep... but hes only there part time and he doesn't go to sleep very good there since theres other kids there.

At home his routine was (its been a while since we have been home all day but when we do this is the norm)

8 - 9am get up
bottle
breakfast
play
10.30- 11am bed
12.30 - 1pm get up
lunch
play
etc...
3.30pm another sleep
5-5.30pm wake up
dinner
play
7pm bath
bottle
7.30pm Bedtime

I think he will soon drop his morn sleep and probably have a longer sleep around 1pm - although my hours at work are going to change and I won't get home till 2.30pm so it will be pretty much in bed when we get home or else he may sleep too long.

kels alize is pretty much in par with Rhyley November boys must have their cells again

My daughter has just the one sleep, and her day looks something like this:

7am wakeup, breakfast between 7-8am
Morning tea around 10am
Play
Lunch around 12 noon
Play
Beginning of sleep anywhere between 1-2pm, for an average of 2 hours
Afternoon tea when she wakes up
Play
Dinner around 6-6:30pm
Bedtime around 7:30pm