When did your toddler stop sleeping in the day?

[MissCalamity]

Just that really?

DD is 2.6 & I'm thinking of not forcing her to nap anymore as she's been a nightmare at bedtime for the past fortnight (which was when we changed to cot to a cot bed)
If she falls asleep in the car or in her pushchair that's fine, but I'm not going to put her in her bed for a nap (which annoyingly she always seems to go down easier for a nap!)
So when did you get more time with your toddlers!

DC1 - 2.6
DC2 - 4.3!!
DC3 - just 3

2.3 months exactly. Maybe once a week she'll have a few minutes in the car (never, ever did before she dropped the nap) but only if we're in the car at the exact right time and she's tired enough.

Generally does 7:30-7:30, sometimes longer (never past 8:30). And some nights she wakes a lot, some nights not at all.

I miss that nap!

Mine were all around 4 years old when they dropped daytime naps. I generally had to force the issue too, because of starting full time school.

Just dropping them now at 2y6m. Summer was bliss when him and newborn napped for 2hrs at the same time. Now the house is a tip. Sigh.

DC1 was about 2.9/2.10 ish
DC2 was 17/18 months

My (very nearly) 2 year old has all of a sudden shunned her lunchtime nap. It came out of nowhere - she was always shattered and ready for a nap (60-90mins) around 12ish then about a week or so ago she just seemed to not want/need one.

She still naps occasionally, and the late afternoons can get a bit hairy. On the plus side she's sleeping for 6.30/7 but on the downside it can be a loooooong afternoon with a nap refusing tired toddler.

Stupid question but how do you know when they're ready to drop the nap?

My DS is a bit out of sorts at the moment after a holiday but he's a nightmare to get to nap (but will then sleep for 2hrs), yet bedtime is a nightmare and taking ages. I have to cuddle him to sleep and it's taking its toll on me!

For me it was when dd generally flat out refused to nap, and then when she did nap it prolonged bedtime. It was hard letting go of it though I'll admit!

I also found that it was a gradual thing, she went from napping every day, to every other day, a couple of times a week until it was cut out completely.

Before we went on holiday, I'd put him in his cot, he'd cry for 30 seconds but then fall asleep. On holiday he generally napped in car seat or in pram. Now we're home, I'm having to cuddle him to sleep as he just screams and arches his back if I put him in his cot awake.
Same happens at bedtime too. He's having 14oz of milk (probably because he's not bloody eating - that's a whole new thread), it's taking over an hour to get him to fall asleep. If he wakes during the night he will not go back to sleep unless he's laid on me. I'm exhausted and wondering if he doesn't need the nap anymore seeing as he's fighting it so much. Unless it's an issue with the cot? Maybe I need to convert it to a bed. He's only 23 months though!

DS napped until he started school. He was nearly 5 and had a good hour and a half each day, he was a nightmare without it and still napped on a Sunday until after Christmas of his first school year!
Dd is 4 in March and stopped napping every day a couple of months ago. She will still nap on the sofa maybe once or twice a week for an hour. As soon as we got out of the nap routine she absolutely refused to nap in her room!

Mine has just turned 3. She will still nap for 2 hours in a dark room at home with her dummy. Although this has a knock on effect at bedtime and it can take an hour or more for her to get to sleep if I've let her nap this long. At nursery she naps for an hour max, sometimes not at all and we have recently "lost" her nursery dummy which has further reduced the nursery sleeps. Not my problem though! Most of the children in her room at nursery don't nap at all and haven't for ages. I tend to wake her up after about an hour or so at home to avoid bedtime problems. She will also readily fall asleep in the car but even a short car nap will mean no more napping the rest of the day. I'm hoping to try and keep some sort of downtime or quiet time with a bit of tv or audio book going until she goes to school but might be being optimistic!

DS is 3,4 and he still has a nap when he's home with me. On Preschool days he falls asleep in the car on the way home so I'm not convinced he's ready to drop them all yet.

They go anything from one to two hours.

Totally child dependant. DS is 4 and he still needs a two hour nap (sleeps 11-12 hrs at night). He doesn't usually want a nap, I suppose I 'force' him but no upset or anything, it's just our routine and he goes up when I tell him. Have tried skipping it a few times and he cannot cope without it. Won't eat dinner, meltdown at bath time etc. He's a September baby and had he been born a week earlier he would've started school this year, I cannot imagine how he would've managed.

DS dropped his nap recently at 2.6

DD was a little bit younger, I think.

DS sleeps really well at night. Dropping the nap has helped him to go to bed a bit early more regularly.

Neither of mine ever fell into the "sleep begets sleep" category. There was always a total amount they were going to sleep within 24 hours, and the nap would always make them less likely go to bed at a reasonable time.

As another poster said, the very day baby was born, 2yrs 3 months. Other children bit older but not more than 3

God all these early nap droppers are scaring me, I'm due dc2 when dd1 will be 16 months and I'm really counting on that double nap..

Mine had a go at dropping it at about 20 months but I still put him in his cot for 45 minutes in the dark - he wasn't unhappy to be there - and it came back. Back to a solid 2 hours after lunch every day and he's 2 now.

Bedtime recently gone utterly to shit though! Used to be able to put him in awake and leave - now have to sit with him until he's asleep. :(

DS was very patchy from 20 months, dropped completely by 2. His night time sleep has improved hugely now the nap has gone (12-12.5 hours straight now, compared to multiple wake ups.) If he even has a 20 minute nap in the car, we lose about 3 hours of night sleep, as he'll then fight bedtime for hours. Sleep has been a monumental pain since he was born!

Forgot to say he's 2 and a half.

It's a minefield sometimes, DD has gone to sleep before 8.30 for the past two nights, after no nap & one hour nap.
It's my day with her today & we've just nipped to the shops & she's fell asleep in the car and I brought her in the house where she kicked off until I let her sleep, tonight isn't going to be fun....

We had this for the last 6 months with DS (now 2.5). I was just about to do what you are suggesting (i.e. Not encouraging but not stopping him from napping) however he has randomly started going to bed really easily again despite long afternoon naps.

Sometimes he naps quite late though (e.g. 3-5pm) and we just don't bother putting him to bed until 9pm and just let him watch a film downstairs with us after DD goes to bed at 7pm ish since I need a rest by then.

Equally, sometimes he doesn't nap and is asleep by 6.30pm. I've just learnt to relax about it a bit a give him an opportunity to nap every day and works bedtime around that.

DD naps some days and not others, but unless we have a day trip she'll go up to her bed regardless and I'll get an hour rest either way. She's 2.7