she can't be dropping her nap at 19mo can she?

[Aranea]

Please can you all tell me that 19 months is waaaay too early for a toddler to stop napping and that she is having a weird week after which she will start again. I'm not ready!

My little one started to battle against the nap at about 20-21 months and it was pretty much gone as a routine by 2 years. I used to make her have quiet time in her room while mummy got some jobs done (I was pregnant at the time) and 2-3 times a week I would go back to check on her and she would be asleep. She had always slept a good 12 hours at night so was happy to let her decide if she was tired during the day. I know how you feel - I mourned the loss of it too as it was nice to have a couple of hours off and she did struggle in the afternoons when she didn't sleep. Good luck.

DD stopped at about 18 months, DS was nearer 3.

My 20 month DS has sometimes been able to go without his nap for a day or 2 for about 6 weeks. But not yet as routine. Most of the time - at least 5 times a week, he sleeps for an hour or 2 in the middle of the day.

I wish she would have quiet time on her own, but if I leave her she screams until she retches so it doesn't seem the most relaxing idea all round! Aargh, she is currently chattering happily to herself and putting her sister's teddy to sleep. Noooooooo, this is supposed to be my time!!

x-posts - bruffin, that was not what I wanted to hear. Please change your reality.

dd dropped all naps from 18 months old. she slept 14 hrs at night though.

hate to tell you, but dd1 stopped napping at 16 mths (after never actually sleeping for more than 20 mins anyway!) and ds gave his up at 20mths. It's horrid when you lose that 30-60 minutes of peace you have come to rely upon for your sanity!

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Can I offer a little ray of hope? My DD appeared to be dropping her nap at approx 20 months. She would quite happily have a few days with no nap and didn't turn into an overtired monster by bedtime. However she is now nearly 25 months and I have had to ask nursery to limit her daytime nap!

In the last few months she has gone from occasionally having no nap to regularly napping for 2 to 2.5 hours. I have a problem with this because she is not falling asleep until 9 to 9.30 at night and then not wanting to get up in time for nursery in the morning. We have agreed that she needs a longer period of sleep over night, so less sleep during the day.

All I can suggest is to keep trying with the nap and also to do as many tiring outdoors activities in the morning.

Thanks runningout... I hope the nap returns! I'm feeling a bit discouraged though, having spent the whole morning in the park with her clambering and exploring!

Maybe it'll be an intermittent thing. She does look a bit tired but that isn't stopping her trying to turn the washing machine on.

My ds gave up his nap in his cot pretty early, but I could get him to sleep in the car or buggy if I went out at, say, 1.30pm. And bless him, I could then get him out of the carseat and carry him in and put him on the sofa with living room curtains closed and he would sleep for an hour or so. I did that a couple of times a week. The other days I would walk him round in the buggy and do my local bits of shopping/dry cleaners have a coffee in a cafe etc. Its not as liberating as the dc being asleep upstairs in the cot for a couple of hours, but I did keep trying to encourage ds to nap in the middle of the day because otherwise he was extremely grumpy and tired by 6pm. He finally gave up altogether by about 2 and a half.

My DD is 23 months (today!) and about a month ago kept having days where she didn't nap, and didn't seem over-tired by bedtime, and I also thought oh nooooooooo.

But you will be pleased to know that it turned out to be a phase, and she now has between 45 mins and 2 hours after lunch. Phew!

Sorry but DS1 and DS3 both dropped naps at 18 months. In each case I instigated a 'quiet hour' after lunch where we watched cbeebies with a bottle of milk snuggled under a blanket, more for my own sanity than their need for a rest.

I'm liking this 'phase' business.

And good point bibbity about the buggy. I could always try that. Though on sunday we drove most of the afternoon and she still didn't nap. She is bloody minded.

'Fraid, distinctly possible.
My DD dropped hers around this age - mostly because her brother, a year older, dropped his and as they share a room she screamed blue murder that she was going for a nap and he wasn't. She is and always has been, a stubborn little minx. No idea where she gets it from

That said, both of them carried on napping at day care for some time after that - just not at home!

I cried the day I realised she would never have a predictable middle of the day sleep again.