HELP 7 month old fighting second nap
My 7 month old is on a 2 nap schedule and I’m wondering if we need a tweak because his daytime sleep suddenly feels SO low for his age.
Current wake windows are 3/3.5/4. He was doing great on 3/3/4 for 2–3 weeks, but then started refusing the second nap unless I pushed that wake window to 3.5 hours and even then he needs so much settling & Will just crawl around his crib wide awake.
He sleeps 11–11.5 hours overnight with one wake for a feed, but daytime sleep has dropped a lot. He used to do two 1.5 hour naps (around 3 hours total), and now it’s usually:
Nap 1: 1–1.5 hours
Nap 2: 30 mins
So most days he’s only getting around 2 hours total daytime sleep, sometimes 2.5 max, which just feels SO short for a 7 month old 😩
He also struggles settling for that second nap specifically.I’m wondering: Should I cap the first nap to encourage a longer second nap?, is only 2 hours of daytime sleep normal at this age?
Feels like we get one step forward and then one step back always