Dropping naps at 20 months?

[elsielake]

My dd (20 months) has never loved sleep. Sleeping through has always been a struggle. Since 9 months has only had 1 nap a day. And now she sleeps through but gets up at 4/5am! If she does nap it varies anywhere from 1-3 hours. I tried to wake her up after 1 hour see if she slept better at nights, tried pushing bed time to 730/8 the result was always the same. Waking up at 4/5. Yesterday due to a busy day she didn't nap. And slept til 7am!!! Needless to say we are a happy house this morning. My question is. Is it too early to cut out naps?

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DD1&2 both dropped naps before 20 months (unless in the car in the afternoon). However, around 2yrs 2mths, DD2 needed to go back to having a short nap (30 mins) for around a month.

I’d just follow your DD’s lead.

Depends on whether she can happily go through the day without having a nap. If she naps a bit earlier in the day, does that make a difference? I always found that there needed to be a decent gap between final nap and bedtime otherwise DS would wake up earlier in the morning.

Oh that's worth knowing. She does happily go without other than being a bit grumpy. Guess we'll give it ago! Thanks all, fingers crossed

DS napped till he was 4. DD was 13 months younger and stopped naps at 2. Having a large twin buggy meant he'd nap in it if we were out.

Both mine gave up naps at 18 months. I didn't have a choice in the matter - they decided unilaterally