My 22mnth DD is trying to stop daytime naps....

[Maryqueenofchocs]

For the past 3 days she has just laughed in her cot and not slept. All very well but by 3/4pm she's a monster and totally emotional.

When should she be dropping her daytime naps anyway? Is it about 2.5yrs?

Also I still give her milk am and pm, should I still be doing this?

She's no.2, you'd think i'd remember!

Children drop their naps anytime from 11 months to 5 and actually some drop[ it earlier than that - I am lucky enough that my dc 2.10 still goes down for a nap between 20 minutes and 1 hour 30 mins each afternoon; dependant on activities. But if placed in bed will sleep for upto 1hr 30 and sometimes has to be woken up. I will be keeping them as long as I can

Dc has enough milk/cheese during the day so we don't give milk in morning or evening but he will have a cup of milk with breakfast - his choice over water.

My DD stopped napping for a week or so when she was around 19 months but then started again. It might not be the end just yet!

Can you push the nap back by an hour or even do quiet time in her room, with a story cd or music playing and see if she will just crash out.

i have a 20 month ds and he has milk morning and night and also sleeps for anything from 1.5 to 2.5hrs every day, if she doesn't want to sleep u can't make her.

Could u possibly take her out in the car just so she has a little nap to stop her being tired at 3-4ish as that is an awful time to have a tired dc

She has never napped in the car - odd, too much of a party girl and too much going on I think!

She slept on holiday most days but she was swimming all day, now she's home she's just not bothered. She does sleep from 6pm - 7am so I have no complaints at all, just wondered whether it was a bit early to let her stop.

I'll persevere for a bit see if its a faze. Plus its the only time I get to go on the rowing machine and do some work, so I am loathe to let her give up just yet!

i personally would be over the moon if ds slept like that at night. He does a 5 hour sleep then another 4 so we are usually up at 5am after going to bed at 8

DD stopped napping at 12 months and was up from 7am until 9.30pm from that point onwards.

I think there's a huge range of normal and she'll let you know when she's ready.

Both mine stopped sleeping in the day before they were 2 - but as that is quite young, I found that you drop the nap one day, have it the next etc - phase it out gradually. That would prob help your DD last longer on the days that she doesn't nap. When they start flagging on a day they haven't napped, I often got out something that excited them - paint/glitter etc and they would no longer want to sleep.