Dropping the nap at 18 months?

[LingDiLong]

I am sat here listening to my 18 month old singing and thudding around in her cot 45 minutes after being put to bed...

This is becoming a recurrent theme, either the singing and thudding or screaming and shouting at bed time.

She usually has a 1.5 hour nap at around 11am-ish. Yesterday she had no nap at all and went straight to sleep just before 7am with no messing about which has got me wondering...shall I drop the nap altogether? She seemed happy enough without it yesterday until about 5ish when she got tantrummy. It just seems wrong somehow to drop a nap at this age.

Don't do it!! I did it and regretted it when he was unbearably tired and cranky in the afternoons. I would just shorten it as I think if you drop it you may suffer in the afternoon and then not be able to get her back to napping. On the odd day out I am sure its ok to drop it but if you are at home I would stick to it. DS stopped napping at home at 20mo but still napped at his childminders until he was 2.7.

FWIW my DS takes a long time to get to sleep in the evenings - anything from 10-60 mins but as long as he is in bed then I don't mind!

Thanks Terrys. I might just leave it til the older kids are back at school next week. Perhaps once her routine is back to normal her sleep will improve!