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Don't want to sleep anymore

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Denmark · 01/09/2005 19:47

My DD is 19 months and have for the last 2 weeks refused to have a nap during the day.
She has for many many months slept 2 hours between 11-14. She has gone to bed (she sleeps in our bed when she "naps" and in her cot at night) without any trouble or fuss. She has her milk in bed and when she is finished with her milk I say sweet dreams etc. and leaves the room and she would go to sleep. But now she wants to play, keep jumping out of the bed, have tried to put her in her cot but she just screams like crazy. I have done bedtime routine etc. but she will not sleep, it can take me hours to get her to sleep during the day. (at night there are no problems at all). If she does not sleep she is in bad mood all day and at 17H30 I will have to put her to bed because she is to tired. ANY ADVISE ????????

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dizzymama · 01/09/2005 20:06

sorry no advice but will bump up for you.

bagpussmice · 01/09/2005 20:23

Denmark - my dd who is 22 months has just started to fight her daytime naps too.... she seems to cope okay during the day, but unfortunately has always been and still is a bad sleeper at night - sometimes waking 2-3 times in the night. I can only offer sympathy - not any advice really. I guess some children do drop their daytime nap early - my niece dropped hers at 18 months.

Its frustrating isn't it when you spend hours trying to get them to have a nap and then they don't! I would just leave her be for the time being maybe after a while she will start wanting her naps again, but it's a tricky one. My dd sometimes does and sometimes doesn't and it's hard to know really when to try to put her down, mostly I do try, like today, she used to nap about 11.30 - eventually tried at 1.00 to put her down for her daytime nap and it took ages, but she did sleep for about an hour, but I don't know if I can keep doing that for days and days.
Let me know how you are getting on as I will be interested to know.

Enid · 01/09/2005 20:30

sorry no advice but dd2 stopped her nap at 18 months

I picked the afternoon to go to the supermarket so she would have a nap in the car on the way there.

hercules · 01/09/2005 20:36

My dd is nearly 23 months and rarely has a nap now

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