18 month old stopped napping! Not enough Gin in the world to cope!

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My DD has always slept very well but for some unknown reason she seems to have given up her daytime nap.

I'm simply not ready or capable of handling a toddler all day with no nap time at all! I stupidly expected naps to continue till shes at least 3! There wasn't even a gradual fade out.

Please someone tell me they went through this and it's just a phase!

DD stopped at 12 months and never restarted. We don't speak of that time.

DS stopped every time he went through a developmental leap and then restarted. Trick is to keep nap time, even if it's quiet downtime in a dark room. Then she'll restart when ready.

Dd 18 months won't settle for bed until 9pm if she has even a 45 minute sleep but without she's such a night mare from 4pm onwards.

Who are these kids who take 2 hour naps and sleep 12 hours at night.

sob

Ah. Had two of these. Up at 5am every day both of them too. We watched a lot of cbeebies. A. LOT.

show I'll give that a go of having downtime at least. Well....as much downtime as DD will cater for. I'll try just about anything!

This afternoon has been a right bunch of hysterical fun

Given she has always sleep well, I'd keep the nap going in the cot. Could be teething, illness, all sorts of things.

I have three that did this at 22 months (but i was walking her for 3 hours for a 40 min nap for a couple of months! it was insane but everyone said she still needed to nap...), 17 months & 18 months.
They all need less sleep than the books say & were all horrible sleepers. No sleeping through the night until well over two etc etc

You will adapt!