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any other kids over 3 still having a daytime nap?

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kleist · 30/11/2005 21:31

Dd was 3 in October and I'm so surprised that she still needs a nap after lunch. Have many other people had kids who still nap long beyond 3 years old? Dd only really sleeps 10-11 hours at night so I think she makes up the extra in the afternoon. If I cut the nap, do you think she'd sleep a longer night?

TIA!

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zebratwizzler · 30/11/2005 21:33

DD needed one until she was almost 4... talking to a friend today's whose DD won't be 4 until Feb. & she still has a daytime nap. My brothers did until they started school (just over 5yo).

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kleist · 30/11/2005 21:34

And did it affect their night sleep?

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hermykne · 30/11/2005 22:01

kleist
my dd was 3 beg oct and still naps in the day.
i would rather she didnt as she wont go to bed at 8 and often isnt asleep by 9 if i get her into it by 8.30. but if she doesnt nap, like today, its hell come tea time and she is unbelieveably cranky. she actually fell asleep this evening and dh spotted it and woke her up, literally 10mins, did she go...
jesus i dont beklieve this she is still up
oh ridiculous
no nap and shes still up and rubbing the eyes...
i need to start another thread on this...

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kleist · 30/11/2005 22:03

Hijack mine if you want, hermykne?

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spidermama · 30/11/2005 22:04

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lockets · 30/11/2005 22:07

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piffle · 30/11/2005 22:12

dd sleeps 12-13 hr at night and 2 hrs easily in teh day - she was 3 in October
She can do a whole day awake but it aint worth the grief
She is and has always been a big sleeper
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bakedpotato · 30/11/2005 22:16

my just-4YO still needs half an hour. She can go without but then is borderline vile at teatime. (She sleeps 12 hrs at night.)

notasheep · 30/11/2005 22:16

dd had afternoon nap after lunch every day until she started school at 4.3yrs

AussieSim · 30/11/2005 22:20

My DS1 will be 3 next month and still happily naps for about an hour and a half after lunch. He takes himself off there quite happily. He goes to nursery 3 days a week and naps there too, although many of the other children go outside and play. Sometimes on the weekend when we have plans and he skips his nap he will fall asleep in the car on the way home. If he does not sleep at all it still doesn't affect his bedtime or getting up time. I would love to get him to sleep a little longer in the morning, as on a nice sunny day he will wake up at 6ish. I figured I will stick with the nap as long as possible especially as DS2 (5mths)has a nap then too.

jamiesam · 30/11/2005 22:21

Ds1 is 4.2 and still has naps most days. Normal sleep is bed at 7.30pm and up between 6.30 and 7am. However, early start is our fault because on my work days (3 days a week) we get up at 6. Nursery days (3 days...) he doesn't nap, on the other 4 I'd say he naps 3/4 days, for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Incidentally, this is virtually the same sleep pattern as ds2 who is 2.4. Guess ds1 takes after his lazy mum and ds2 takes after his dad...

UCM · 30/11/2005 22:49

DS 2.3 used to sleep 7-7 with an afternoon nap, but he will not nap at childminders so when I pick him up between 3.30 & 5 he is the child from hell so put him to bed at about 6.30. But when I have him for a day he takes himself off quite happily for a sleep between 1-3pm and kips for about an hour. Then he is happy.

We are just having the 'I don't want to go to bed mummy' arguments starting though.

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kleist · 30/11/2005 23:05

My dd would sleep for hours in the afternoon. I usually wake her after 1.5 hours. She's at playgroup 5 mornings since September and as a result her nap times have got later in the afternoon and I have noticed that it's harder to get her to bed at night now if she sleeps beyond 3.30pm.

Has anyone whose child's dropped a nap found that the night time sleep gets extended as a result?

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clary · 30/11/2005 23:53

kleist the answer to your original question is no, but to your latest question yes....
Both dd and DS2 dropped their 2-hr post lunch nap when they turned 2 - because they were not going to sleep (and they always had before) for an hour after they were put down.
Dropped the nap (my idea but they were fine) and bingo!
All my 3 sleep 7pm to 6.30am.

hermykne · 01/12/2005 13:19

hiya kleist
dd a nightmare thiese days.
she went to sleep almost immediatly after i went into her and got quite cross.

anyway, she gave up her nap around 35mths, and her night sleep was great 8-8 even 8.30 but for whatever reason its gone a bit haywire.and she now needs a nap again, albeit a short one.

shes napping presently and i'll let her sleep no more than 1hr 15mins and get her to bed at 8 tonight. i htink she pretty much understands where i am coming from in trying to explain why shes got to go to sleep at 8/8.30.

shes due to start nursery in january and perhaps that exertions may change her night time routine. but i do try my best to get her pyhsically out and about in the afternoons.

what time deos your dd get up at?
i feel my dd needs 11+ hrs at night but is only getting 10max, so is compensating for it with her nap.

KBearthePolarBear · 01/12/2005 13:25

My DS was 4 in September. He still has a snooze in the afternoon (helpfully around school run time - not). Not every day but probably every other day! He still goes to bed at 7 and sleeps until 6am.

My DD was the same.

WigWamBahhumbug · 01/12/2005 13:27

My dd is 4.5 and only naps when she's ill - she dropped all her naps when she was just turned 2. Dropping her naps didn't affect her sleeping at night at all.

WishYouACrappyChristmas · 01/12/2005 13:43

wish mine would nap

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kleist · 01/12/2005 15:11

hermykne, dd goes to bed around 8.30pm now. It used to be 8pm but her nap's been later since starting playgroup in September and she's just not tired at 8pm. She wakes around 7.30am, so usually gets 11 hours, often 10.5 but rarely less than that. I think she needs 12, like your dd, and she makes up the extra with her nap which she usually now goes down for around 2.30pm (used to be 1.30pm) and I wake her after an hour and a bit. She'd sleep all afternoon if I let her.

I keep wondering about cutting the nap out and putting her to bed at 7 or 7.30 as I find after the nap she's often really grumpy and difficult, for up to an hour when she wakes up, and has just fully woken up again when it's time for bed!

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hermykne · 01/12/2005 20:25

kleist thats amazing my dd is the same kinda pattern, bed at 8.30, and really grumpy after her nap when i wake her. she gets about 10 / 10 1/2 hrs as well.

i think going on whats here, day napping wont make a differnece to night sleep.

this didnt happen in the summer time when they were out side all day til 7 or so and happily running about. maybe thats it!

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kleist · 01/12/2005 21:26

Yes, dd started ging to bed later definitely over this summer, but more so when she started playgroup. I don't pick her up until 12.15 and it's a good 20 min walk home. By the time she's had lunch (never a quick process with my little darling unfortunately!), a story etc. I just can't get her to bed before 2.30pm. And I think her waking at 3.30pm + leaves her in a grotty mood. It's as though it's getting too close to bed time. I have thought that seeing as she's only napping for an hour, I might as well cut it and put her to bed at 7.30 instead of 8.30 in the evening. The thing I worry is that she'll wake up at 6am!

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kleist · 01/12/2005 21:28

The other things is, she moves from playgroup to school nursery after Christmas which starts at 9am and is a 30 minute walk. So she's got to be up by 7am which means she HAS to be in bed earlier. But I can't do that unless either she naps earlier or I cut the nap. Decisions, decisions ...

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kleist · 01/12/2005 21:35

dp, according to his mum, right up until he was 10 used to get in from school and go to bed for an hour before dinner! I guess that explains why he still can't get up in the bloody mornings.

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PottyinaPearTree · 01/12/2005 21:35

ds2 used to fall asleep at school during storytime until he was way past 4.

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