The end of naptime is nigh ... gutted ....

[ghosty]

DD (2 a couple of weeks ago) has been in her cot for the last hour having a whale of a time. She is singing "EIEIO" at the top of her voice and throwing all her soft toys out of the cot along with her dummies. When her cot is empty she sits there shouting "Muuuuummy .... Daaaaaaaaddy ..... Uh Oh ... toys out ... dummies out .... " Until I go in and put them back in and then she spends the next 10 minutes doing the same until I go back in. When I go in she laughs her head off and thinks it is a great larf ... grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I know it is inevitable ... when DS was her age I resorted to taking him out in the car to get him to go to sleep and then parking in the driveway and carrying him to bed ... I gave up doing that when I found myself driving around Auckland for over an hour and DS was still chatting merrily away to me ... had to start saving on the petrol costs
This won't work with DD as she has never 'transferred' easily ... but I can park in the driveway and leave her in the car seat I suppose (don't worry, our house is well away from the road and passing strangers!).
I know we need to knock the naps on the head really. If she does nap she won't go to sleep at night until 9pm (goes to bed at 7pm and spends 2 hours doing the "Uh Oh ... toys out ... dummies out" game) but wakes at 6am ...

Sigh ... she used to be the best sleeper/napper on the planet.

I know there is nothing to be done but to give them up but I do so love my 2 hrs in the daytime ...

Any mums of toddlers going through the same phase who would like to commiserate with me?

[jabberwocky]

Me,me,me! Ds is only napping 1 out of 3 days at best But, I have let him know that he must do quiet time in his bed at least. Although...it isn't very quiet much of the time. It's just that he's so active I am completely exhausted by lunch time and need a break. Lately I've been falling asleep even if he doesn't

[ghosty]

LOL jabberwocky ... I used to do that with DS
How are you doing these days?

[jabberwocky]

Doing pretty well. I've got a great new therapist and we've had good success with cognitive behavioral therapy. Dh has finally come on board and we officially start ttc next week (estimated ovulation and all that ) He still has some reservations but is supporting me in trying for a second pregnancy, so that is a big step.

Thanks for asking!

[ghosty]

Hey, JW ... that is fantastic ... I am glad it is going well and that you are going for it!

[jabberwocky]

keep your fingers crossed for me

[Surfermum]

I'm going through this too Ghosty. I have been really lucky as dd (2.9) sleeps from 7 till 8ish and would happily stay in her cot playing until I was ready to get up, sometimes well after 9.

In the last week she has started climbing out of her cot, so I'm getting up at 7 some mornings, and she's also started not wanting her daytime nap. She gets soooo grumpy by the end of the day because she's tired, and I'm not used to that either, she's always been so good.

I am getting no sympathy from my other mum friends as she's been such a good sleeper, and they all think that 7 is a lie in anyway. Can't say I blame them!

I guess the only good thing will be that I might be able to get a few more jobs done and we aren't going to be restricted by her needing a nap.

[kitegirl]

Yep, me too, so here comes a truckload of commiserations - ds (will be 2 in two weeks) is in that hellish middle stage where he does not really need/want a nap but gets tired and cranky in the evening. The 2 hours that he slept was a godsend as i could actually have a shower, chat on MN or put my feet up but a whole day without a break means I am ready for bed at 8pm - oh what a life!!

[mamatotokf]

my dd is 2 and is now wide awake at bedtime... she used to be quite easy to get to sleep. The last few nights she hasn't gone to sleep until after 9pm. We're totally losing our evenings, what a nightmare. In the day she's tired, having to be woken from her midday sleep after 2 hours and not happy to be awake. Do you think i should just stop her daytime sleeps full stop? She still gets up (always has done) between 6 and 6.30,even going to sleep really late.

[nulnulcat]

same thing happened to me with exactly the same game!! except if she even had a small nap we would still be awake at midnight!!! had to stop the daytime nap but she dropped it anyway would put her down and she did the toys gone dummy gone game instead i just put her in her cot with a book for 20 mins quiet time with no sleep and a chance for me to have a peacefull cuppa!! went on holiday though and she decided to have her daytime sleep again thought it was coz she was having late nights and lie ins but it carried on since we got home and now we are getting up at 9am sleep from 3 til 4 and bed at 730 its great!! maybe you will be lucky to!

[alicemama]

Didn't realise how lucky I am...dd1 was 3 last week and still has an afternoon nap at around 2pm and goes to bed at 7pm and asleep by 7.30pm - 8pm! Normally wakes up at 7am!
We don't even get any argument from her in fact some afternoons she just takes herself off up to bed....
She's going to get such a shock when she starts nursery next month!

[ghosty]

It is getting worse ...
I am trying to be a little less 'routine' about it all and putting her down for a rest if we are at home ... if she sleeps great, if she doesn't then I still have 45 minutes of peace with a cup of tea before she shouts to get out ... But if I am out then I just get on with my day and she may have a little doze in the car on the way to pick up DS from school. It was getting better in that she was more keen to go to bed when tired if you know what I mean ...

BUT ... and I need loads of sympathy here ... on Wednesday she played the dummy gone game for an hour and then went quiet so I thought she had gone to sleep. 45 minutes later she started calling out and she had only bloody well done a poo AND TAKEN HER NAPPY OFF .... There was $hit everywhere and she had clearly had a lovely time playing with it in that 45 minutes ... eeeeeuuuuwwwww! Sorry if this is TMI but it was even in her hair ...
So I had to clean up her bedding and the cot AND put her in the bath at 2.30pm AND then leave at 2.40pm to go to school to pick up DS ...

I will have to staple her nappy on somehow ...

sigh ...

[duvet]

alicemama - how long to let dd sleep out of interest?