Kiddo will be 10 months tomorrow. Bedtime is anywhere between 7:30-7:45. His wake time should be 6:30, but lately he seems to be waking up as early as 6.
For context, at 8 months Nap 1 would start around 9:30. By 8.5 months, the start time moved to 10 am (sometimes 10:15-10:20). By 9 months it became more consistently 10:30, lasting around 1:20 but sometimes as long as 2 hours. By around 9.5 months, this nap started to get inconsistent, with some naps lasting 1-1:20, and others 35 mins. We decided to push the nap to 11. This past week, however, he has been completely unable to connect cycles at this time and has consistently woken up after around 35-38 mins. We've been rescuing this nap by having him sleep on us, but now we're worried that we've created a dependency.
What is the move here? Do we stop rescuing this nap? Let him cry it out? If so, for how long?