17 month girl refusing naps

[laidbackmummy8]

After some help!

My little one has always slept well at night and still does thankfully! I used to work 9-3, 3 days a week and my little one would be with a childminder and have a nap at 11 until 1 with her - the same routine i had for her.

I have now changed my hours so i can spend afternoons with her and go out and do more thinking her naps will all be done and dusted and lunch done.
Whats actually happened, i work Monday to Friday and pick her up at half 1, the childminder now has to do school runs at 11:30 and doesn't get back until half 12 and little one will not sleep in the buggy. She now refuses naps completely and by 4pm she is unbareable and clearly tired. Resulting in refusing dinner.

At a complete loss of what to do - she clearly needs a nap as she is exhausted, i now have to wake her up in the mornings to get her ready so i can go to work whereas she would normally sleep 7-6:30.
I've tried warm juice to calm her down, warm milk, she won't eat as its not long after lunch, and also left her to self settle in her cot but she spends the hour i leave her chatting to herself.

Any advice would be appreciated - if she wasn't so grumpy i would just leave her to not nap!

Have you tried going to bed together?

Ours was like that around that age we would just ask him, do you want to rest on the sofa or go out and play. He had to pick resting or running around so he didn't just drift along doing neither. It worked and gradually he dropped the nap.

I've tried before to have a nap together but she sees being in mummy's bed as an excuse to run around and jump on the bed.

Think I'll continue to give her a chance to nap, if she doesn't then I'll move her bedtime to 6 until she can hold out longer I guess.