Napping- 18 month

[Pentium85]

18 month old hasn't had a daytime nap AT ALL for 3 days.
Was previously napping 1.5-2 hours prior to this, with very broken sleep at night for 12 hours.
Would anyone advise 'forcing' him to nap or just going with it?
Seems very young to drop naps totally, but he has never been a 'natural' napper!
Thank you

Oh and just to add- when he was napping during the day, the 12 hours sleep at night included 5-6 wakenings.
Since he hasn't napped the last 3 days, he is now only waking once

I'd just go with it. Mine has never napped other than at nursery (I'm assuming they drug him), and in the car. He's a terrible sleeper but since dropping the nap be does get a solid 10-11 hours, usually with one waking but sometimes when the stars align it's all in one go of course then I wake up at 4 to check he's okay and end up awake for the rest of the night He's 2 now (just turned) and the lack of sleep doesn't seem to have affected him.

He hasn't napped during the day for a long long time (not gonna lie, I wish he did because my house is a riot and I get no work done).

Thank you, you have really reassured me.

As much as I will dreadfully miss that afternoon nap where I got absolutely nothing done but still I would take a solid nights sleep over a few hours respite in the day, so I think I shall just go with the flow and hope.

There is a sleep regression at 18 months so could be this. My son (nearly 20 months) heavily fought his nap for a week or so but is now back to napping. So your son may go back or may not. I would just follow his lead. Yay for more night sleep though!

My dd stopped napping regularly a few months ago, shes 20 months now. I find now if she does happen to fall asleep in the day shes a nightmare to get to bed in the evening, if she doesnt have a nap shes falling asleep on is on the sofa at 7ish but if she does have a sleep she will be awake at 9PM still! so unless shes really shattered I just let her stay up, I'd take a full nights sleep and uninterrupted evening with my dp over daytime naps any day