20 month old

[malteasermuncher]

Hello, I was just wondering if people with similar ages babies can consistently put their babies down for a nap after lunch and know that they will nod off every single time? My little one went through a rough phase for a few months and has then slept every day for the last 10 weeks in her cot and then today I tried for over an hour before giving in and taking her for a drive..she was asleep within 5 minutes. First time Mum and I feel now that she hasn't slept today in her cot for her nap that that is it and she never will again! Irrational? I hope so!

She was probably just off-colour today. Or a bit extra tired. I wouldn't worry about it being a long term thing.

My youngest started transitioning from 2-nap days to 1-nap days at 20 months old. Her naps were always at routine times though.

Morning nap: 9.30am - 11am (woken up, she'd sleep longer
Afternoon nap: 1pm - 3pm

Transitioned to:
Lunchtime Nap: 11.30pm - 2.30/3.00pm

Thank you very much for the advice. Do/have your children Fate always gone down every day or are there days that they just won't?

During the transition from 2 naps a day to 1 nap a day, there will be days with 1 nap inter-dispersed with days of 2 naps. It's a gradual change.

At 20 months old, none of my children would have been able to go the whole day without sleeping at all.

My little one went through a rough phase for a few months and has then slept every day for the last 10 weeks in her cot and then today I tried for over an hour before giving in and taking her for a drive..she was asleep within 5 minutes.

Thst sounds like over tiredness. If suggest that baby needed to be asleep a good hour before he was put down for his nap. By that time he was over tired and exhausted, so dropping to sleep was harder.

My 20 month old cot naps at nursery but will only nap on a pram walk with me! She's with me 4 days a week and and nursery for 3 days, the two don't influence each other as far as I can tell ie she won't do cot naps for me!

Hello, thank you both for taking the time to reply! I think perhaps over tiredness did play a part, I need to learn to relax! I know she needs to have her sleep so i think that is why it bothers me so much, plus I think of the list of things I could be doing if she does sleep! Tomorrow is a new day!