is 12 hours enough

[bagpussmice]

dd is just 2 and 1 month, and has started to drop her daytime naps. She just about manages it through the afternoon okay, but gets grotty near to bedtime and I can put her down at 6.30pm she will go off straight away which is great. She wakes a couple of times in the night but settles again v. easily with a drink and then sleeps through normally until 6.20 am.
Is she getting enough sleep? I know all children are different - I wondered whether I should still be getting her to have a sleep some days? She tries to resist all the time when I put her down and says No, I not tired.

my dd is same age and has been slowly dropping daytime nap over the last 3 months. Most days she doesn't have one and then gets to bed at 6.45 and sleeps through to around 7.45am and upto a week ago was sleeping through to around 8.45 some days!!! However last week she's been up at about 6.30 average and has had a sleep most days because of the early waking. She does average around 13 hours a day or 12 on a bad day. I think all you can do is go with the flow. I always take her for a walk around 1.30 ish and it gives her an opportunity to have a nap if she wants (although I know most days if she's up after 8.00 she won't have one). It's a funny time - you just get used to her not having naps and change of routine and then she changes again!!!!

Yes my ds was the same at this age.. he's now 2.5 and has gone back to having a nap some days. We found getting dinner into him a real battle on the days he didn't get a sleep out and about (he would never settle at home and would just hop out of bed and play in his room - arrgh) I'm afraid all I can suggest is to go with the flow. You may find in a month she's settling for you again. I would still try and keep it part of your routine, but make sure there's lots of [quiet] toys in her bedroom and try not to get angry if she just has some quiet time in her room rather than sleep. It used to drive me crazy when it first started happening as I thought most dropped their nap at 3. No such luck. HTH

Both of mine have dropped their nap before they were two. ds is 2.3 now and sleeps almost exactly the same times as your dd. HTH.

My DD2 is same age and has exactly the same routine - we dropped mid day sleep about a fortnight ago for same reasons.
Not worried as DD1 got much less sleep at this age - 8pm-6.30am from earlier age. She stopped having midday naps from about 18months if not earlier.
All children are different. If your child seems happy on waking and alert, not dozing off during the day etc then she is obv is fine. I find that if DD has a cold or is a bit run down she might fall asleep in the middle of the day for an hour and then still sleep ok at night. Children seem to regulate their own daily needs once they have established a baseline pattern.