Babies, man. AMIRIGHT? I am finding it amusing that to talk about naps for the 2 and under set, I have written 3 blog posts so far and have at least 2 more ahead. I mean, if someone dedicated time to 5 blog posts about naps for 24 months of my life that would be AMAZING! This window of 9-12 months also starts at the beginning of 9 months and ends at the beginning of 12 months. The next post will address the world of the 12-18 monther. But, 9 months is where I found myself feeling more in a groove and beginning to see what all the fuss about procreation was. Your little nugget may be working on crawling, and while moving has its own challenges, I always felt like my kiddos were happier and more engaged as they started making these strides. Now, my kids all started crawling after 9 months, but another topic for another day. As you head into 9 months, your baby’s wake window is about 3-3.5 hours. This is the first time we see variation in the wake window and that reflects that they are not automatons any longer. This is where you may start to see your baby differ more and more from other babies her age. As long as you are hitting milestones and working with your pediatrician, this is all very, very normal. To me, it feels they are becoming their own baby person. Maybe they’re baby tweens. They are certainly in between being a baby and being a toddler. So, let’s call this very tiny time period bweens. So, your bween may increase his wake window to 4-5 hours by 11 months! That’s like half a work day. Go ahead and get his work permit. JK. Don’t do that, it’s a bad idea. But, around this same time of 11 months, you can consider moving from 2 naps to 1 depending on how your bween is handling life. Their daytime sleep goes from 3 hours at 9 months to 2.5-3 hours at 11 months (yeah, not a big change), to 2 hours at 12-18 months (there’s your preview to the next post). During this window, their total 24 hours sleep remains at 12-15 hours. That will drop to 11-14 hours at 12-18 months (I know, your head is spinning with the dramatic drop-off). If you cut back from 2 to 1 nap during this time frame, please do not forget to MOVE BEDTIME EARLIER. Otherwise, you will have a cranky bween in the evening and early morning bean the next day.
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