How long does your toddler nap for?

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DS is 19 months and has a 2 hour nap in the day between 12.30-2.30 but for weeks now he is not sleeping well at night - we're in three or four times every night giving him his 'bunny' (comforter), tucking him back in etc. Switched to a duvet from a sleeping my bag but it hasn't changed anything.

My DD started messing around at that age and never stopped; we cut her naps at 22 months and sleep resumed. She would still nap now otherwise and just not sleep at night. It literally went on for months I seem to recall until we binned naps and now she never wakes.

I'm feeling sleep deprived again. He wake up several times just whinging, never genuine upset, but loud enough, and then it just happens on and off. I suspect too much daytime sleep?

DS 2.4 dropped his nap about 3 months ago. His night time sleep is much better now. However he has always woken up in the night due to teething. Fortunately all his secondary molars are now through but he would have disturbed sleep a few weeks before the tooth erupted then a week or so reprieve before the next one would start

Kinda lucky here. My just gone 2yr old sleeps religiously from 1pm to up to 4pm and then back down at 7/7.30pm to 7.30/8am. Rarely wakes up at all. My 5mt old is a different story so far though!

I think they are all individuals. But I would keep trying new tactics until you find what works for yours. And when you try something, stick at it for at least a week to see, don't just give up because they roared for an hr the first time you tried it.

DS 1 is 3.4 and will still happily sleep 2-3hrs, although I wake him after 2hrs these days.

DS 2 15 months - 2-3hrs

I love naptime

I suppose someone has to get the good sleepers ?? I think that's the exception rather than the rule

But we always compare our children to them.....

On the other hand, how many parents of young children do we hear bragging of how much sleep they get?

DD is a good sleeper - for that I am very grateful. We were told we were very lucky with her and wouldn't get it twice....they were right, bastards!

Well, tonight I'm doing tough love and not going in. Think I've made a rod for my own back going in each night 2-3 times to tuck him in or return his comforter to him which, if he stretched his arm out, he could reach most of the time. He doesn't even try. We've had to get tough before and it worked but then we got complacent as he slept through for months so when he woke in we trotted - which is right - except 2-3 times a night for the last several weeks isn't right. He never gets hysterical he just yelps a bit and I automatically go in. Crying at night really stresses me out so I try to stop it asap and I think that's the problem. Altho he's only 19 months old he's a clever little beggar and he absolutely refuses to do a thing for himself if I will do it - he has a toy tractor and a bike and he'll insist I lift him on them (he can do it!), screams til I do, then screams if I won't push him....which I won't, as he totally knows how to wheel himself about.

I feel a bit thick tbh as I don't see myself as a pushover at all, but I think I've really added to the problem going in to each whimper out of sheer desperation for my own sleep to resume.