Once your baby hits a year old, schedules don’t change as drastically as they did their first year of life. During your baby’s first year it can feel like every time you get settled into one schedule, it’s time to change the schedule yet again. But don’t worry, you get a little more buffer time during the 12 – 18 month mark. The biggest change that comes in this next few months will be the transition to one nap, but you don’t want to do that too early. There will likely be a regression around this time, and then you’ll transition naps closer to 18 months.

This next year is so much fun. Your baby starts growing more and more into a toddler. They’ll be learning new words, learning to do things on their own, and it’s so much fun. This is one of my husband’s favorite stages because your baby becomes much more interactive. Check out what the schedule for your toddler looks like around this age below.

Toddler Sleep Schedule: 12 – 18 Months

2pm – Cup of Milk
2:30pm – Nap
4pm – Wake Up, Snack

Jase was completely weaned a week after his first Birthday, so I offered Jase a cup of milk three times a day, at the same times he was used to being nursed. At this age, it was also a lot easier to stretch awake times if needed. Sometimes I needed to run morning errands, so he would skip his morning nap and lay down earlier in the afternoon. Or I could schedule play dates in the morning and he usually would be happy enough to make it until an earlier afternoon nap. If for any reason he had to miss his afternoon nap, he really needed to take his morning nap. I tried to avoid missing that nap as much as possible or else it made getting to bedtime ROUGH. Some mornings he would wake closer to 9am, so I would push his morning nap back to 11am. If on a rare occasion he slept until 9:30 or later (usually Thursday mornings after a later night at church the night before), we would skip his morning nap all together.