11 month old sleep schedule

Eleven months is the last month of the "two naps, no argument" era for most babies. Wake windows are pushing three and a half hours, daytime sleep is down to around two and a half, and the morning nap is doing less work than it used to.

A sample 11-month-old day

Wake at 7:00 AM, 2 naps of about 1 h 10 min each, bedtime at 7:00 PM. Nap times are windows, not deadlines — anywhere inside one counts.

Part of the dayClock timeNotes
Wake7:00 AM
Nap 110:00–11:10 AM3 h awake first
Nap 22:25–3:35 PM3 h 15 min awake first
Bedtime7:00 PM3 h 30 min awake first

Open this day in the planner

The planner adjusts it to your baby's own wake time, bedtime, and birthday — including corrected age if your baby was born early.

How much sleep a 11 month old needs

Wake windows
150–210 min
Naps
2–2
Daytime sleep
2–3 h
Night sleep
10–12 h

The sample day above lands at 2.25 h of daytime sleep and 12 h overnight — 14.25 h in 24. A baby at the bottom of the range who wakes up happy is not short on sleep; the range is wide because babies are.

What changes next

The 2-to-1 nap transition is coming, but typically not for another two to seven months. False starts are normal: a week of refused morning naps followed by a month of needing them again.

Common questions

Is my 11 month old ready for one nap?

Usually not. Most babies transition between 13 and 18 months. Readiness looks like weeks of consistently refusing or sleeping through one of the naps, not a bad fortnight.

How much sleep does an 11 month old need?

2–3 hours during the day and 10–12 hours at night. That is the same bracket as 9 and 10 months — the change at this age is in the wake windows, not the totals.

Why has bedtime got harder at 11 months?

Often the last wake window is now too short. As the windows stretch, a bedtime that used to be right becomes early, and an under-tired baby resists exactly like an overtired one.

Where these numbers come from

Tier 1 — evidence-based The ranges on this page are the consensus sleep totals and nap counts below. The phrase "wake window" itself is a Tier 2 practice-based heuristic: it does not appear in the pediatric sleep-medicine literature, so treat the window lengths as a starting estimate and let your baby's sleepy cues override them.