Is anyone else in this hellish stage of dropping the nap?

[starrienight]

DD is two years and four months and recently it’s been hard getting her to go down for her nap. Mostly I don’t bother and it makes bedtime a breeze. However, it does restrict afternoons considerably because we can’t really go anywhere as then she’ll fall asleep and we’ll have a really late bedtime.

Today she woke at 545 (she doesn’t normally) and so I thought she’d need a nap but it doesn’t seem to be happening. So now we’re sort of stuck … I know people will say to go out and if she falls asleep so what but I’ve got work tomorrow and I could do without a 10pm bedtime!

I used to tell them it’s nap time and they’d lie in their bed and I’d go to my bed and pretend to sleep until they fell asleep. Sometimes I fell asleep too and we both napped. For mine it was a fear of missing out. By being a boring lump under the duvet, they would realise they’re a bit tired too.

She’s in her cot listening to her Tonie box. I do think she might actually go now …