Time to drop her nap????

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Dd is 25 months. Since she was tiny all her naps have been in the buggy and when she went down to 1 nap a day at about 15 months she's had lovely 2ish hours naps starting at about 12:30-1:30pm.

Bed time is 7-7:30pm and once she finally goes to sleep she stay asleep til about 7:30-8am.

However the last month or two she's been taking FOREVER to go to sleep at night and will lay in her cot chatting and singing usually til about 8:30pm and she's also fighting her naps during the day (today, in buggy at 12:50, still singing/chatting now). She will NOT snap in the cot (though happily sleeps on the mattress on the floor at nursery or occasionally on the sofa at grandparents). I think she plays up for me and goes down easier for others (DH/nursery/GPs).

Is it time to drop the nap?? Gah...

And now it's so late in the day I don't want her to sleep in case it results in a late night again, plus we've got stuff to do this afternoon.....

I'm no expert cos my DS is only 13mo but it sounds like it to me....my niece dropped all naps at around 2yo.

Maybe you'll end up putting her to bed quite early for a while until she gets used to it? Bath at 6pm, in bed by 6.20pm, asleep by 6.30pm might work? My ds is in the process of dropping down to 1 nap and he find the afternoons pretty long so this is what we do,and he sleeps till around 0645 in the morning..

ps - i know a few mums who still insist on 30 mins 'quiet time' after lunch once the naps have been dropped. Playing with soft toys in the cot with lights on dim, for example. Gives the mums the chance to still have a wee sit down! might be worth a try??

Could you try shifting the nap to pre-lunch? DS is 30 months - getting him to nap is horrific, but if he doesn't nap he will nod off on the floor/sofa at 5pm and be horribly tearful and then not go to bed until 9 or 10pm. A pre lunch nap leads to an early bed time, but you need to have seriously exhausting morning activity to make it work.

Soundo by 6:45pm! (A bit later than planned actually)

A pre-lunch nap sounds like a good idea but getting her down before 1pm in general is a struggle. Also I'm only off work on a Friday so the other days she's at GPs or nursery and whilst I could prob get the GPs to try that there's no way nursery would...

She's got swimming tomorrow then we'll be out in the car straight after lunch so I expect she'll sleep then.

I really strugged with her naps when she was little so since she started doing these lovely long après-lunch naps its been delightful. I was hoping she'd keep that up til she was about 3 ... Dc2 due in the summer so looks like things will get interesting!!!