please advise me should I stop my dd nap in the daytime she will be 2 in jan please please help me.

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I dont know what to do about my daughter she sleeps in the day for 2.5 hours if not more and tonight its 9.00pm and she is crying and banging in her cot ,she shares a room with my son who sleeps in our bed all the time should I stop her daytime naps, so that I can put her to bed at 7pm and him at 8pm back in his room and reawrd him with a star chart he is 4 please advice me.xx

can you change her naptime? say from 2pm to 12:30; might mean a slight re-jig of your routine

There is no need for her to drop it yet - and IME dropping daytime naps does not mean that sleeping at night happens instead

I would at least cut it down to no more than 2 hours - from 1-3 each day - and her being up by 3 to see if you can get her to sleep better at bed time.

Thanks for your input I have to pick son up from school at 11.45 so she goes to bed 12.30 at the latest,should I wake her at 2.30pm say.And put her to bed at 7.00pm thank you.

My 20 month old son has suddenly stopped sleeping and wont go to bed! he wakes cryin during his day time sleep and all night, from sleeping great for a hour during the day and then 7 till 7. We'v tried reading stories, laying next to him, singing, everything but he just wont go back to sleep, any ideas?

Freeway im going through the same as you as I know how you feel maybe we can get through this together.

Is she getting enough exercise in the day? And plenty of fresh air. Also, make sure she's not getting chocolate or cafienated drinks. Milk before bed can help settling too.

Hang in there...

does she get up early enough to be tired by 12:30?

I would put her down then and get her up at 2pm at the latest regardless of how much she has slept.

If she still seem tired enough by 7pm cut it shorter.

meant If she still seem doesn't tired enough by 7pm cut it shorter

fuck!- you know what I mean lol

Ha Ha I know what you mean ggirl, I will try tommorow fingers crossed xx. you would think with a child already I would of been a pro by now but I forgot ha ha.

You are so right cat64 they are probably onto us now ha ha.

both my dc dropped their nap before aged two and then fell asleep approx 6.30 til 7 depends on the child,i used to keep them awake by going for walks and a early bath at 4.30 (seemed to give them second wind)then tea stories and milk i have 20 month between my two.

I would cut it down and make it early (straight after lunch) so that she is tired again by bed time.

I have cut down on naps and made sure she's not sleeping past 3pm.

DS just turned 2 and he doesn't seem to need his nap until later now 2pm and would sleep for a couple of hours. I have started to cut it to just an hour, any longer and he is wide awake at bedtime.
He has had a couple of days with no nap, and at bedtime he goes within a minute!! I am quite lucky though as he doesn't get grumpy without a nap, just keeps on going.

Naps..the headache of it when my DD was a tot! I never knew where I was with her, sometimes she would be awake til 9 or 10pm if I let her sleep and sometimes fall asleep at 5pm if I didn't! In the end I worked out that as long as the gap was long enough (about 5 hours) between the waking and sleeping it worked. That would mean in your case of waking her up at 2pm for bed at 7pm. An early lunch is prob best and settle her down for about 12-12.30 in afternoon. 2.5 hours is pretty long i'd do 2 hours tops if I were you..good luck

i know, hope things are getting better for u!have you heard of night terrors, im not sure if my son has been upset by sommething or is trying it on to sleep in our bed!

my dd was just like this. She is now 2.3 and has one 20 minute nap in the day, and then sleeps all night 7-7(previously unheard of)I was told by someone wise (I can't remember who) that you can't control how much sleep your children need, but you CAN control when they sleep.

So if your daughter needs 12 hours, and you are letting her sleep 2 hours in the day, then she will only need 10 hours sleep at night

Good luck

DD1 (3.8) will still sleep up to an hour in the day and sleeps 7pm til 7.30 am.

DD2 (1.8) was napping up to 3 hours during the day until recently but then we had a spate of 4 am wakings So I stopped her 'formal' nap (which was hard. Instead I make sure she has regularly spaced short trips in the car/buggy so she gets 10-15 mins here and there throughout the day. She now sleeps from 6.30 til 6.30 and managed well without the daytime sleep.

They're all different

Wow. DD1 (3 1/2) is still napping during the day for up to 1 1/2 hours. She's in bed for 7 and reads her books for a bit, and then sleeps till 7.45 (yes I do know that I'm very lucky).

They are all different - but 2 1/2 hours seems like a long time to me and my suggestion would be to try cutting it down to 1 1/2 hours - you might find that the extra hour of being up and about means your dd is ready for bed at the proper time!!

I meant 7.45 am

I don't think stopping her nap altogether is a good idea TBH. When i was a kid i was put to nap till i started school. There's ample research showing that short daytime naps are good even for adults. Try changing the time of her nap and/or bedtime as other people suggested, also setting up/changing her bedtime routine might help. Have you tried the 'No-cry sleep solution'?
best of luck

I have just totally cut out daytime sleep in my 2 year old as nothing else has worked in terms of early mornings and night wakings - so far so good as he has slept through both nights (unheard of) and has slept past 6.30am on both morings (again totally unheard of!). Have only done it 2 days but so far so good.

I have always resisted cutting daytime sleep as I agree with the other posts about it being good for them but nothing else has worked with my ds and we will all be a lot happier when we get a few more full nights sleep.