Once your baby hits a year old, schedules don’t change as drastically as they did their first year of life. The biggest change that happens this year is the transition from two naps down to one, but be careful not to make the change too early. I had been told a lot of babies usually drop down to one nap shortly after their first birthday. Baby Sleep Site (one of my favorite resources), usually says it happens between 15-18 months so I kept that in mind. Jase hit a sleep regression stage around his first Birthday that I thought he may drop to one nap, but I am glad I didn’t take it away because after a couple of weeks he wanted it back again.

It wasn’t until around the 16 and a half month mark, he started choosing to only nap in the morning. He wouldn’t fall asleep until 11 and then would sleep until 12:30, then refused to nap again in the afternoon. This was making for a very fussy toddler by 4pm. He was choosing his morning nap over his afternoon one. So I decided to keep him up through his morning nap and lay him down earlier in the afternoon. This transition was still a little hard as he could get a little fussy around noon, but I really needed him to take an afternoon nap vs a late morning one. I continued with the schedule and after a week or so he has adjusted pretty well to it.

Currently going down to one nap has meant it is a pretty long one, which I know as he gets older it will shorten, but this has been a great schedule for us in giving me the entire morning to run errands or play with little man, and then an entire afternoon to get things done. It took a bit of adjusting, but I really like the schedule.

8:30am – Wake Up, Breakfast
10:00am – Snack (Some days) 
12 noon – Lunch
1pm – Nap
4pm – Wake Up, Snack
5/5:30pm – Dinner
8:00 pm – Begin Bedtime Routine  
8:30pm – Bedtime

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