16 mo doesn't want to nap anymore, what to do?

[Atomant]

Can anyone help? My 16 mo is really fighting daytime naps. She's gone from 2 to 1 nap about 6 weeks ago with occassional days where she's had one long nap & a short cat nap later. For the last week she's been hysterical when put in her cot both at home & at nursery. Prior to this recent change, she's been napping for @ 1.5 hours she was a serial short napper until 10mo when she started stretching naps out.
I've tried doing earlier naps or later naps but every time she's hysterical. Any thoughts?

If I take her out in the pram, she will sleep for about 40 mins.

TIA

[belindarose]

My 14 mo is similar, sometimes happily having a couple of naps, more usually resisting both. She can sometimes go all day with CM without a nap and comes home with dark purple eyelids (and gets put to bed at 5pm - fortunately only twice a week). I try and get more naps by using a sling or the pram or timing car outings for when she's tired. Probably no help to you.

[girlwiththemouseyhair]

are your babies walking yet? DS went through a similar patch at 14months, sleep generally was utterly screwed in naps and night time sleeps, he dropped his penultimate nap then went haywire for a month, got sick from jabs and slept constantly for a week, took a week to get his confidence back again then started to walk and settled quickly into one nap a day

[Dawnybabe]

My dd2 16mo will occasionally fall asleep in the car purely because the movement always seems to make my children nod off, but she won't always want a nap if we're at home. It's not exactly the same every day. I take this to mean that she's gradually beginning to give up daytime naps. It's a pain losing that hour of peace and quiet but it can't be helped!

[katiepotatie]

Our dd gave up napping completely at 16 months. Nothing I could do about it, although she slept better through the night from then on. I was gutted though as I had just found out I was pregnant with ds, and could have one with the nap myself

[Atomant]

Oh nooooo surely she's too young to give them up?!!!
She is quite happy if she's not napped so maybe she just doesn't need it anymore? This really hadn't occurred to me as I just thought she was way too you to not need a nap. She's been walking from 11mo, so I don't think that's it. I think I just have to relax & go with the flow a bit more...

[AngelDog]

Lots of babies have temporary 'napping strikes', often when they're working on new develompents. It may just be a temporary thing so I'd keep trying every so often.

The No-Cry Nap Solution by Elizabeth Pantley has some good suggestions too.

[Atomant]

Thanks, I have the book but haven't read it since DD was v little, I'll dig it out tonight.