Dd is 2 years 9 months and starting to drop her daytime nap. Usually she'd go down around 11/12 for at least 1.5 hours but the past few days she has just stood in her bed crying and refusing to sleep so I got her back up again after a while and reluctantly accepted that the nap is on its way out.
The first two days she had half hour cat naps in the buggy but today she hasn't slept at all since 7am wake up. By 5pm she was nodding but we kept her up and tried giving her some tea which she refused and just screamed. All she wanted was cuddles and to sit on our knee. Took her for an early bath which she screamed through and seemed shivery when I got her out (granted the early bath time meant the water wasn't quite heated as normal!) then attempted the usual bedtime routine but she just wouldn't be put down, screamed some more, coughed to the point of making herself retch and refused her night time milk. I had to rock her to sleep in my arms which hasn't happened since she was as a baby, and gradually put her into the cot.
I've only ever known her to behave like this when she's unwell. But she's been absolutely fine all day. She doesn't nap on her preschool days and although tired is never distressed to that extent.
She's asleep now and I'm meant to be going to my Xmas work meal but I'm concerned about leaving her. Is it normal for children to be quite so insane when overtired?