Nap Times

[childcaremom]

My daily schedule has rest time at 12-3. Not every one sleeps that long but that is the time we are all quiet.

I have 2 littles starting in September (10 months). They will most likely be on 2 naps still. I have set 9-10 as our morning nap. When should I expect the afternoon nap to be? 2-4? 1-3?

Also, at what age do you move dcks to 1 nap? Right now I start making the switch at 14/15 months (they usually go down a little earlier 11-2) and then have the total switch of 12-3 done by 18 months.

[jenboo]

I did morning nap from 930-11 (wake up at 11 if they were still sleeping) and afternoon from 1-3 (but wouldn't wake them).
I wanted everyone on the same afternoon nap schedule so I had a break.

I go from two to one nap based on each child. When they stop sleeping during both naps for a week I will go to one. I think it's very dependent on the individual child vs a specific age.

[Febby]

One of my old centers had a morning nap from 9:30-11:30 and an afternoon nap from 2-4 for all of the young (12-18 months). The rest of the children napped from 12-2. Part of the reason for that schedule was because there wasn't enough cots for all the toddlers to nap at the same time. But the they were allowed to give up their morning nap whenever it seemed like they were ready.

[Annalee]

My daily schedule has rest time at 12-3. Not every one sleeps that long but that is the time we are all quiet.

I have 2 littles starting in September (10 months). They will most likely be on 2 naps still. I have set 9-10 as our morning nap. When should I expect the afternoon nap to be? 2-4? 1-3?

Also, at what age do you move dcks to 1 nap? Right now I start making the switch at 14/15 months (they usually go down a little earlier 11-2) and then have the total switch of 12-3 done by 18 months.

When I have infants in care, I have morning nap from 8-9....I run a fan and when that fan goes off they wake up::. Nap for everyone is 11:30 to 1:30/2:00. By the time a child is 12 months old, they are all on the same nap schedule and napmats.

[kitykids3]

Whenever I have babies/toddlers I have them on morning nap from around 9:30-10:30 and then from 1:00-3:00. Of course I follow their lead but I try to get them on this schedule and then by about 12-14 months I have them on the one nap a day like the other kiddos from 12:30-2:30.

[Unregistered]

I do try to transition over one's to one nap. Always works well for me. I only take kids one and up now. We go outside from 10:00-11:30. Eat at noon. Nap 12:30/12:45 to 3:00.

If they need a morning nap I try to do 9:00-10:00 so they nap in the pm with other kids.