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[madame]

My dd will be 3 in September and I am not sure whether to drop her afternoon sleep.

In the last couple of weeks she has been still awake in her bed till 9.30pm ish. She is being really good and staying in her room but she is wide awake, kicking, singing all the rest of it....she has also been waking up briefly around 5am and wanting a cuddle.

She has traditionally had a sleep after lunch for between 1 to 2 hours and I never let her sleep after 3. She goes to bed at 8 and until now wakes around 8 so she was getting 12 hours but at the moment she is course getting less as she's not settling till 9.30 ish.

What I would like to know is should I start to drop her day sleep. Do you think she is showing signs she doesn't need her daytime sleep. She seems to as she does yawn and gets tired but I don't want these late settling nights really.

Any thoughts please

My dd soudns the same as yours except she is still going to bed about 7pm and sleeps at night and wakes about 6-7ish (so i'm keeping the naps for as long as i can!) Can you try cutting them down to 30mins or an hour? Or try alternating days?

I did try yesterday cutting it down to an hour and she settled later but not as late as she has.

On Saturday we were going out for the evening and were having a baby sitter so I kept her awake all day. She went down really well and straight to sleep but she really wanted to sleep in the car on the way back from our day out and my dh had to sit in the back with her and keep her occupied.

Good idea about maybe trying alternative days.
Thanks

Anybody else have any thoughts please

My dd was exactly the same - chatting and singing until around 10pm. I dropped her nap at 3 (which co-incided with her starting pre-school) and she now sleeps a good 12 hours solid and we have our evening's back!

thanks, I think that's maybe what I am going to do. It's a hard one because you really enjoy that time in the day to yourself but at the same time you want your evenings also....

I have put her down today but I am going to just let her have an hour and see how we go tonight and if she is still wired then I think I am going to knock the sleep on the head.

Can you just have a quiet time hour instead of nap? So after lunch she is allowed to either watch tv or read books on the sofa? while you tidy up lucnh mess or have lunch?

thats what i will do I think, then at least I can get some jobs done.