Not to let 2 year old nap today!

[Foreverhopeful22]

She has been awful with behaviour this week (see my other thread in parenting)

Last night she woke at 12 until 3am

I'm at the end of my feather she always naps around lunch for an hour

Today I'm thinking of not letting her, I need her to be asleep tonight

Husband is ambulance driver and so far he has done 3 16 hour shifts starting at 6am and not finishing until 10pm and so he isn't getting home until 11pm and up again at 4. He is exhausted and last night he got 2 hours sleep the rest was completely broken.

Would it work with holding nap today or am I just making it worse

In my experience, it makes it worse!

Sleep breeds sleep. You'd be insane to make a tired toddler even more tired.

it will.make it worse. let her nap or you'll have a hideous overtired screamer of a bed time. I understand the frustration, my OH is a lorry driver but she is just being 2. It sucks balls though.

I thought you might say that. Dammmmmmm

Ok keep nap time and I have a play date this afternoon and I planning on knackering her out on that.

She needs her nap definitely. Why is she displaying this sort of behaviour? Is it that she's missing attention from her Dad?
Perhaps she needs to have plenty of physical exercise during the day to tire her out.
She will sleep if she's exhausted.

My DH wanted to try us dropping 18 month old ds's naps. I did it just to see what happened and ds has been a nightmare since. I still think some children need a nap at that age.

Could you try a later nap and a later bedtime??
That's my plan with my 2yo today....just because both she and my 11 'onth old DS are both up at the crack of dawn everyday (usually around 5am) and DH has just gone OF on a military overseas deployments I need more sleep if I'm to handle this mad house by myself

It'll make it worse.

You need to do rapid return to bed with no reward for getting up. Can husband sleep in a spare room or in front room so he gets sleep?

Two of my three boys dropped their naps at 2yrs old and personally I'd say go for it. Try it. Things can't get any worse really. They slept well at night too

We don't have spare room

He tried sleeping in lounge but all he could hear was me talking and her screaming .

She is struggling with daddy's new job

We all are

As she hasn't seen him since he put her bed sunday night

This is so friggin hard

Is she hungry at night? Try giving her a banana and see if that helps her get back to sleep.

I'd also feed my boys tea/dinner at 430ish and then a big bowl of cereal and milk at 7pm.

Tried that last night. Didn't want anything to eat or drink

She just wanted to scream and have me lay on floor , which I did for an hour to no avail

Ended up leaving her to scream at 2.30 and boy did she scream but she went off at 3 am

Is she teething? My 2 year old who usually sleeps 12 hours has been up and down the last three nights with his teeth, a bit of calpol settled him last night

To be honest I'm going to try calpol tonight just in case

Did I read on another thread that you're expecting as well?

I think the opposite of harshness is required here: look up "lovebombing".

No not expecting -

16 hour shifts! Is that the norm ambulance driving?

I dropped my 2 year olds nap which has generally helped. I let him if he's particularly irritable but he sleeps a lot better now than he did before.

Perhaps try and earlier nap so there's still plenty of time after wards to be worn out.

I also found a slightly earlier bed time routine helped.

You could try a nap every other day.

I think no nap will make it worse

My 2 year old is also being a shit these days and not sleeping very well at night

I just get him in bed with me now as I'm sick of getting up a million times to shush him etc

Luckily we have a spare room that me and DH take turns to sleep in

My 23 month old was like yours....an absolute nightmare to get to sleep.....she would always nap around 2 o clock and then be a nightmare to get to bed,often going to sleep past 10,I tried getting her to nap earlier but It was impossible. I dropped her nap in the end and now she goes to bed every night at 7 o'clock.

My 2 year old DD is also being an arse - up a few times at night at the moment.

Our coping tactic is to take turns sleeping on her floor so that we're there the minute she stirs. Means you get a decent sleep every other night and it's slowly getting better just not quickly enough

On days she's refused naps she's gone to bed earlier but it's made no difference to night time sleep.

I just hope it improves soon. I've just found out I'm pregnant with #2 and face having to do this longterm.

My DS went through a horrid phase about that age - i was kept awake from 1am to 6am, solid rocking him.. nearly broke me.

see how she goes today, an early nap might be better than an afternoon one

Well I put her for a nap . She was happier earlier only a few moments

Let's hope this afternnoon she gets knackered from play date