2 year old nap & bedtime

[Sleeplessnights201]

If your 2 year old has a nap in the afternoon, what time does he/her go to bed in the evening?

If he's had a 2 hour nap 12-2pm, he will literally be up til 11-12 midnight.

If he hasn't had a nap he goes to bed 6-7pm. Sometimes will fall asleep at 5.30 as he's eating his dinner.

Mine can only be allowed to nap for an hour, max. Anything beyond that screws up bedtime. She also can't nap after 3pm.

He might be in the process of dropping his naps? DS 2.2 only naps a few days a week now. When he naps (I never wake him up) he usually falls asleep around 9-930 and without a nap around 6.30-7.

Yes that’s the problem I have too - I never know if he’s going to be awake for dinner!

We’re having this dilemma at the moment. She’s being an absolute nightmare about bed; it’s taking 1-2 hours every night and she’s going down eventually at about 9. Then getting up at 5-6am.

I want to drop the daytime nap. DP wants to keep it as long as possible because he rests when she’s sleeping, otherwise she’s full on, all day. And he’s the sahp, so it’s him that suffers!

My DS used to nap at 2pm for 1hr and went to bed at 8.30 and slept for 11hrs (most of the time, sometimes it would get a little out of sync)

He started to drop his naps at about 2.5 yrs but sometimes he would be asleep before dinner, it really depended on how active he was during the day

It’s such an awkward age lol

@Camomila he has dropped his naps, today was the first nap he's had in months. But he woke up really early today and fell asleep at lunch.

@WittyJack Yup! I've had that too, he would get up at 5am, regardless of what time he went bed but now seems to have stopped that.

It's hard and it's full on, but tbh I prefer to stick it out til 5-5.30 when he falls asleep and then sleeps through the night til 7am, then for him to have a nap in the afternoon and have him be up til midnight.

Our DS had an hour or so yesterday and was then up to 10pm..Bedtime is 7pm usually.. He's dropped them naturally but is grumpy by half 5ish so he's been going to bed earlier

False economy for your DP surely though if your toddler is up til midnight.

I thought dropping naps would be hideous. I actually got a much better night sleep for my little boy and you don't have to arrange your whole day around it.

Thank god im not the only one.
In week 2 of 2 yr old toddler refusing to sleep until gone 10. I work full time and losing my evenings is so depressIng

What do you all do during that time they won’t slwep - stay upstairs until late to reinforce that it’s bedrime, or take him/her downstairs?

DS 2.3 naps for about 60-90 mins at nursery (until 1.40pm today) and still fought sleep until 8.15pm. On Sunday he slept 12.30 until we finally woke him at 4pm!!!! But was still asleep by 9pm and slept through. He’s up 5-5.20am regardless. If there is a pattern I can’t find it!!!

I agree losing evenings is crap and also means I tend to eat hardly anything as I’m ready for bed by the time he’s given in.

My son (22 months) cannot nap after lunch or he will also be up until 10 o’clock ish! Today he slept in the car for around 30 mins at 8am (he was awake at 5) and then didn’t sleep again and he was no trouble at all to put to bed, whereas two nights ago he had 30 mins sleep at 2:45pm-3:15 and didn’t go to bed until gone 10pm every time we tried to put him to bed he just screamed and screamed!
He tends to have 1.5 hours in the morning but I think he is slowly cutting it out

I've limited dd2 nap to one hour, usually only 45 mins, and absolutely has to be awake by 1pm but I put her down at 11.30am. Bed is then around 8pm which is OK for me.

@Stopitjuststopit2018 I usually just take him to bed 9pm, he will come out and I just take him back to his bed. He will come out 10-15 times more, it's tiring but he goes to sleep in the end.

Thank god he's asleep now

1hr nap, or 1.5 hours at nursery and bed time of 7.30. but this last week bedtime has been a nightmare and is only just falling asleep as I type. But I don't think he's ready to drop the nap yet as by 5 he's a terror and doesn't sleep properly.

Watching with interest. My DD is just about 26 months and at nursery she generally sleeps 1-2pm which means an absolutely epic battle to get her to sleep in the evening - tonight took 2.5 hours! But at the weekends we put her down for an earlier, shorter nap - about 12:30-1pm, and then bedtime is a dream and she's usually asleep by 7pm. Nursery don't seem willing or able to do it our way. Longing to drop the nap altogether, though I know we have a way to go.

I don't want to get your hopes up but think I've found the solution...!!! My son was having 1-2 hours but then not going to bed until gone 9. The last few weeks I've been limiting his nap to 20 mins, it's enough to stop him being grouchy in the afternoon but still asleep by 7/7:30pm (he then sleeps until about 7am). I've probably tempted fate by sharing this with you all though!

@Mammatron I've tried that before, but he gets really grumpy and won't stop crying when I wake him up. Each to their own I guess 😁