Is it common for just 2 yo to not go to sleep Til 9pm?

[Madallie]

Dd just 2 has never been best or longest sleeper but between phases we seemed to find something manageable with not too late a bedtime and not too early wake up. By that I mean not before 6am too often ( I am realistic).

Her routine now seems to be:
Wake - 7-7.20am
Nap - 1 or 1.30 Til 2.30pm. She won't go down any earlier and I always wake her by 2.30pm although often she wakes then by herself.
Bed time - in bed by 7.30 but does not sleep until 8.40-9pm with the later becoming more frequent.
Also length of nap doesn't seem to affect how long it takes her to drop off at night.

I feel 9pm is too late. Over the past month it's gradually crept from taking 20-30 mins to go off to 1-1.5 hrs. It's not even as if her nap is long. Today she only slept for 50 mins for example.

Dd does not seem upset or distressed at bedtime or while lying up there. She does not cry or call out for us, which I know is a good thing.

Does this sound common for a 2 year old? Is there anything I can do or do I just have to accept this is her new sleep time?

Bump

Hi Medaillie,

My DS is 2.5 and has pretty much the same routine. I have had similar thoughts myself. I sometimes worry that it isn't enough sleep. However his naps are starting to be a bit more erratic and on the two or three occasions when he's managed to get through the day without a nap he's been asleep by 7.30 and slept for the best part of 12 hours. So, dare I say it, perhaps she's starting to work her way out of needing the nap.

SBx

Thanks script. I think ur possibly right. Sadly.

DS didn't go to bed until 8.30-9pm at that age. He slept about 10.5 hours a night so that meant a reasonable 7-7.30am start.

He'd have a 2 hour nap in the afternoon, 12.30-2.30ish.

Once he was 3+ and stopped day time naps he began sleeping 7.30pm-7am.

Normal here at nearly 2. More like 10pm often if she's had a good nap, 8pm if she's just had 20 minutes shut-eye on the school run. But woe betide us if we try to stop her napping, then she conks out at 5pm, we get all hopeful that she's gone to bed early, and she wakes up again at 7pm ready to play.
Roll on nap-dropping...

I'm in the same boat here too. My DD is grumpy and wild by 4pm if we skip the nap but bed time seems to be getting later by the day.

I might try shortening her nap to see if that helps, just not sure I want to give up on the napping yet as I get so much tv watched done when she's asleep.