brief cc question

[twick]

Have posted before about dd's sudden sleep problem which began a month or so ago with a refusal to be left in her cot after almost 2 years of no such stuff happening.

Well, we've done cc with her re. bedtime at night and it's worked brilliantly, she's barely got upset at all and a change happened very quickly. So for the last 3 nights I haven't had to go in to reassure her at all, she's just chatted or sung a bit and gone straight to sleep.

But daytime naps are still proving to be a battle. Should I persist and use cc? While we were doing the cc at night we've just taken her out in the pram for naps as we couldn't bear her to cry twice in one day and I thought if bedtime was solved naptime might follow.

Has anyone else tried cc for daytime naps?

Should say that we don't particularly want to continue with pram naps as she doesn't sleep very well there and it means we get no moment to rest at all during the day.

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My DD is 2y 4m and very rarely naps in the day now either (maybe naps 2 out of 7 days) - sorry. She has never been a big daytime napper anyone. Sorry, no advice at all.

Before this problem started dd was napping in her cot for a good 1.5-2 hours a day so I'd be surprised if she suddenly wanted to drop it. I wish she'd sleep a bit more at night then it wouldn't matter if she only cat-napped in the pram in the day.

Do you folk with non-napping 2 year olds find they sleep a long night?

Dd only does 11 hours and that's if I'm lucky! .

My DS1 (2y7m) gave up naps in the day very suddenly - went from having 1-2hrs to nothing. He sleeps quite well at night. I would think that your DD is telling you she thinks it's time to give up on those daytime naps - sorry - there goes your couple of hours peace a day!

I'm afraid DD didn't sleep longer, she just suddenly stopped napping about 2 or 3 months ago. I first noticed she wasn't napping at nursery and within days she wasn't at home. She sleeps for between 10 and 12 hours a night, most nights.

I wouldn't do cc for naps either. Sorry. Is it that she isn't tired? Otherwise, maybe try to catch her before she gets too tired, sit with her and tell her about all the lovely things you are going to do in the afternoon after her sleep, and say you will come back in five minutes and give her a toy to hug.

DS cut out all daytime naps aged 19 months. I think some children just don't need much sleep. My best friend's children would go to bed at 6.30pm every night if they could and sleep straight through till 10am! And she moans to me about getting them up in time for school/nursery!

Thanks everyone. I'm taking what you're saying into account but I'm still unsure that she's ready to give up a nap as the moment she's outside in the pram, literally instantly, she's asleep. I do agree that cc at naptime probably isn't going to work. And yes, I do probably have to get used to the fact that I'll no longer have my little moment of peace a day! It was sooo nice ... especially if she'd got up early ...

Twick, I just posted on your other thread. Personally I think if she drops off instantly in the buggy then she does need a nap. I found that at 2yrs some sort of reasoning/bribe did work - I gave DS a story, and stuck with grobag as long as possible! Also if it hadn't worked within, say, 20min, then I would tend to give up and go for a walk. But I think you will find if you can crack it she will sleep much better in her cot. I tell DS he needs sleep to make his brain grow!

Thanks florence, I agree with you, and with what you said on the other post. Dd sleeps loads better in her cot than she does in the pram. It's just so much heartache to get her to go to sleep in the cot right now. She's hysterical almost as soon as we leave her in there. I don't know why it started really, she used to love going off for her naps.