When do drop daytime naps?

[Dipsydoodlenoodle]

DD – 18 months has been on 1 nap per day for a VERY long time. She’s recently been sleeping through the night again. Typically 7pm to 6am or 8pm to 6 or 7am…Bedtime is somewhat between 7 and 8pm. If she has a long nap during the day (2 hours) it’s a ‘fight’ to get her to bed for 8ish. She has also been having say 1hr naps naps during the day and sleeping 7 til 7.

Do I just let her continue as she is, or should I try and reduce the longer nap slightly? When to toddlers typically get rid of their day time nap. She has had a couple of days with (if we are luckly) shes had 20mins…We’ve found some nice relaxing activities she likes doing, so we try to have chill out time during the day too.

I quite like having them and I'm in my early 40s. Hope this helps

18 months seems young to me to give up naps completely. I found it was gradual, so they went to one long nap, which gradually got shorter then fewer days a week. My youngest stopped napping at 3.5 ish, my eldest had to be weaned off them at 4 in readiness for school.

Normal between 2 to 3. I would try moving bedtime to 9.

I would say she's a little bit young yet. Msybt just keep it to 1.5 hours max if 2 hours is still too long.

DD stopped napping at 29 months, for the 2 months before this they become shorter or she might only nap every other day etc. I knew it was time to stop when she just couldn't fall asleep even in the car or she wanted to start napping too late e.g after 3pm x

My DD had her last nap aged 20 months but they had been steadily getting shorter for the preceding few months. She was having around 40 minutes and then went to two months of awful bedtimes / naps schedules before stopping completely.

DS1 stopped napping at 13 months.
DS2 napped for two hours every day until he was three years old.

Mine were 2yo and 2.5yo. My niece napped till she was 4.

Limit it to 1-1.5h. DS’ naps were limited to 1h20 max by about 20 months. He would happily sleep for hours during the day but we had to intervene and wake him by 1h20 or 2:30pm (whichever occurred first) if bedtime wasn’t going to be 10pm or later. The nap start time just got progressively later and hence the nap got shorter and shorter. He eventually started refusing to nap at nursery at about 2y2 months and had dropped it completely by about 2y4 months, which was great has he solidly and consistently slept 12-13h at night then onwards.

Genius! 🤣

I'd just reduce them rather than stopping completely. My eldest is 2yr 9mo and is cutting them but we are finding multiple days in a row atm is too much for her so she has a 30 min nap about every other day.

We can at 1 hour for our 20 month old and that works well, nursery do the same and she sleeps through pretty consistently

My DS was nearly 3 when he dropped his, and I think would have kept it a bit longer if it hadn't been the excitement of Christmas and seeing family. Took until a few months after his third birthday to not be evidently shattered by 4pm, but he's a child who needs sleep!

Obviously child dependent, but my DS was steadily more and more active from 18 months as walking clicked for him (he started at 14 months) and by 2 was whizzing around on a balance bike and it was much easier to get him to nap then that at 18 months.

My 3.5 year old is only just about dropping them. Will have them at nursery but not at home.

My daughter napped til 4 - which was handy as I was heavily pregnant at the time. She sleeps 11 hours a night and loves a lie in, she's 8

My son dropped his nap at 19 months, and thinks sleep is for wimps. He's 4 now

I plan on waking him very early ALOT when he enters his teenage years!

Mine was 2yrs and 4 months BUT she needed to drop them way before that. She was regularly going to bed at 10 and getting up at 6, plus she fought them, I think she would have been happier dropping them nearer 2, but she only slept 11 hours max after that anyway.

I would try limiting them first if she’s still sleeping well at night with a one hour nap.