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Fighting bedtime ... Dropping nap?

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TurquoiseYeti · 20/05/2026 22:58

I'm not sure whether my 2 year old (27 months) is showing signs of needing to drop her nap. She naps for 1h about 1230.

She's been fighting bedtime. This started after we capped her naps to match what she does at the childminder's, so we moved bedtime earlier to 7pm. Still took ages for her to fall asleep but she was sleeping well and waking at a reasonable time so we stuck with it anyway. Then she started waking very early so we moved bedtime later to 7.45pm. The early wakes have stopped but it still takes her ages to fall asleep and she now wants to wake up too late (after 7am, which doesn't leave us enough time when I'm working)

She goes down well for her naps unless she sleeps late in the mornings. I always have to wake her from her naps at home and am beginning to have to wake her every morning too.

I could understand the bedtime resistance being a sign of dropping her nap if she wasn't wanting to sleep late in the mornings. I feel we've messed around with timings a lot already so before I go and do something else, just wanted some thoughts please? Longer naps at home and shorter naps at childminder's was causing split nights so that's not an option.

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