Is 2yo too young to drop final nap?

[Mamabear04]

My LO is turning 2yo in a few weeks and yesterday didn't nap at all!!! Today she has only slept for 40 mins. Is she starting to refuse her final nap? I thought that it would be closer to 3yo before this happened. I'm also rather worried because she is sooo active and won't sit still for long and is always on the move and into something. I'm not sure I can cope without a break all day and I'm not sure it's healthy for her to drop her nap...am I panicking? She is sleeping like a dream at night but sometimes takes an hour to fall asleep (she's happy just rolling about in her cot chatting to her bunny) so usually sleeps 7.30/8pm - 6.30/7am. Any advice would be welcome...

Both mine dropped theirs at 18 months. One did id gradually, skipping days, and then napping for one etc. The other slept for 3 hours as normal one afternoon and then didn't nap again unless we'd had a busy day and dropped off in the car on the way home.

Children are ready to drop their naps when it suits them. Dd was down to 1 nap by 5 months old. People were horrified but it was so much better for her than fighting her 3 times a day, and resulted in both us being much happier all round.

Oh and hte eldest stopped napping just as I discovered I was pg with the second and could have really done with a break. You just have to cope. Try a half hour of stories or telly after lunch just to calm down. It sometimes worked....

All children are so different. My DS dropped his single nap (after lunch) when he was 26 months so just over 2yo. He is also very active. It wasn't through lack of trying on my part - it coincided with first lockdown and my furlough so I was desperate for that hour to myself to break up the day. But he was ready. Kept bedtime the same as before. You could have a quiet time for half an hour if you think she would do that?

they go through fits and phases.

Some days my DS wouldn't nap at all, other days he'd go for 2+hrs at that age.

IT might just be a period of being unsettled for whatever reason, ill, teeting, new skills... wait and see how she is in a few weeks?

I think when they take time to go to sleep at night that's an indication that naps are on the way out! I held on to my 3rd dc naps but i found it was taking him an hour or so to go to sleep and it just wasn't worth it so dropped them and he went to bed no prob!

Both of my DC dropped all naps all together at 18 months. It was tough at first but they sleep soundly 7pm-7am.

Mine started nap refusing at 18 months. We managed one every three or four days until 20 months, then that was it. Just said ‘No sleep Mummy, not nighttime yet’. Never suffered for lack of naps in any way - and actually she’s better rested as her overnight sleep improved.

Yeah DD did at 2. Not so much that she didn’t want the nap but more that if she did nap, she didn’t sleep until 10pm! We dropped the nap. We still did lower key activities in that time because she would be tired and a bit cranky, until she adjusted. It was the right decision though.

My daughter started skipping naps at around 22 months. From 24-26 months she didn’t have any, then at 27 months she started napping again for about a month or two and then dropped it fully.
Until about 2,5 years we did quiet time everyday giving her a chance to fall asleep. We would just cuddle in bed and read some books.

I would just try to encourage some quiet time into each day to encourage a bit of rest

dd stopped napping long before 2. Ds' biggest complaint about school when he was 5 was that they wouldn't let him take a midday nap. It really depends on the child.

DD started occasionally not napping once she turned two, but some days she’d still do a couple of hours. By 2.5 she’d essentially dropped it. We’d do about half an hour of CBeebies after lunch as quiet time so I could tidy up and have a moment’s peace ready for the afternoon.