Helps please - naps!!

I am so totally confused about Jack's naps now, although they have always been the thing I have struggled with. Jack has never been a good napper, well sleeper in general. Often naps are only 45mins long which I eventually stopped fighting against. He was usually waking at 7am, nap at 10am and then another nap starting between 2 and 3pm depending on what we were doing, the length of his morning nap, and then asleep by 7.30pm.

Last week for 2 days in a row his naps were 30mins and it was a real struggle to get him to go down for his afternoon nap, one day finally getting him down at about 4.30pm which then pushed out bedtime. So I thought maybe he is mving to 1 nap a day. I decided to go cold turkey and keep him up till 11.30/noon and then put him down which is OK if I keep him occupied. On the days I tried this the naps lasted anywhere between 1hr and 3hrs!!

Today he was ready for a sleep at 9am and I can just hear that he has woken - just shy of an hour.

So is he ready for 1 nap or is something else going on? I am really confused.
Can hear banging over the monitor, had better go and check out what he is distroying!!

i remember the boys doing that too - they arent quite ready to have only one nap but sometimes they cope well with one...but other days one is just not enough.

Also to add that now at nearly 26 months she is dropping her only sleep of the day! That wasn't in my plan just yet but seems to be in hers!! So much to look forward too!!!!

Well at least I was on the right track with thinking he is dropping a nap, thanks ladies. I am a planner and thought we had our routine down so that I could start making plans with people again, guess I am going to have to try and get used to going with the flow again grrr!
I know all babies are different but how long did it take your baby to get past this in between stage and definately on 1 nap a day? Weeks? months?

ETA: not sure if quiet time would work as he doesn't really sit still. Although I could put him in the highchair with a little snack and the tv on - he is a fan of late afternoon soaps and MASH, or is that me??

Edited by Linzy