Tired toddler

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Dd (she turned 3 in Jan), seems to be endlessly tired. All I am hearing at the moment is "mummy I am soooooo tired", she does perk up throughout the day but even doing fun things she is yawning and rubbing her eyes and telling me how tired she is, nursery have also mentioned that seems tired when I take her in (she goes 3 afternoons a week). Her sleeping pattern hasn't changed, she goes to bed at 7.30pm and is up between 6.30 - 7.30am, she hasn't had am afternoon nap for about a year now. Is this normal or should I be worried? Could it be because she is growth spurt? Any advice appreciated.

Could she be anemic?

Can you just try putting her to bed an hour earlier for a week and see if that makes a difference? Has she recently upped her nursery sessions?

How is her eating?

Its probably a growth spurt that's exhausting her. But you could ask Doc about iron as well, just to cover all bases. I think may be afternoons at nursery could be exhausting. Especially if she's been active in the morning before hand too. My son is 2.10yrs and he needs a couple of hours in a day to be quiet time.

She has just gone from 2 to 3 afternoons but was tired before that. Her eating is ok, she has a lot of fruit, veg she won't willingly eat but I do hide it in a lot of stuff, she drinks a good amount of fluid also.

I would rather have had morning sessions for her but they are full up, although we would be active and doing stuff in the afternoons anyway so not sure how much impact that would have on her tiredness.

Might try putting her to bed earlier and see how that goes, it will mean she won't see dh all week though so that's why I haven't done that upto now.

Thanks for the replies.