My daughter has just turned 20 months and for the last couple of weeks she has only had a daytime nap 4 or 5 days out of 7. The days when she skips the nap she goes down in her cot as usual, letting me leave the room, but then after ten minutes or so, she starts talking and it soon escalates into crying and shouting for me. Once I have to go into her, it's game over for the nap, she refuses to let me leave the room again and won't settle at all. I usually try to take her out in the car or in the pram to see if she will nap a little later on in the afternoon but she never does and just seems to keep going on adrenaline till bedtime, getting more and more wound up rather than tired! Friends say with their kids that they just try again for the nap later and that usually works, but my daughter seems to just decide she isn't having one that day and that's that! She usually sleeps through the night fine though, fingers crossed!
I wonder if the reason for all this might be that she sometimes doesn't get up til 8am, despite everyone in the house making loads of noise with showers next door to her room etc. Should I be waking her at 7am or is it best to let her sleep as long as she wants in the morning and then forget about the nap? Just wondering what is best. The annoying thing is that on the days when she misses the nap she still seems to be tired, as on the other days. Hoping this isn't her working up to dropping the nap entirely as it seems too soon!!!