18 month old no nap?

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Am I insane to try without a nap for DD??

She's just about 18 months, and for weeks we are having a issues with her night sleep.

She will nap reluctantly at 12:30-1ish for 1/1.5 hours

And traditionally she would sleep at 7 through to 7 or even 8.
Now though, she chats in her cot for hours! She's been on her own in her room since 7, happily chatting to the walls! She then sleeps until 8. Which isn't great for days she has to go to nursery

DM says I dropped all my naps at that age but everything I reads says we should persist. Has any one done this or got any advice please?

Sorry I haven’t ever had the same problem but every child is different. I have heard of some toddlers dropping naps at 18 months but some not till age 3.

Could you try and reduce her nap time to just half hour first, try for a week and review if it’s improved her bedtime?

Thanks @Underworld345 that's a good idea for 30 mins, she can sometimes just have 50 but we still have the hours of chatting.
I will try that before stopping them, I do think she would get over tired if we stopped them totally

Both mine dropped napping at about 18 months. They did it themselves, and it was ok. Bed at 7pm until 6 ish. Unfortunately the youngest was up through the night at least once until almost 4 but never napped after 18 months.

Thanks @Rubytinsleslippers she does really fight her nap unless she's in the pram, so I was initially tempted to just see how she would be if we just had a day at home without the nap

I just find it so odd 4 hours awake and she's out like a light for the nap, but will happily die twice that in the evening

Do no die, obviously 🤦🏻‍♀️

We found that our ds suddenly wasn't tired enough for bed at 7pm about a month ago and would drink his bottle then be up for hours (and point blank refusing to go into the cot but happy to play /chat in bedroom) but that by putting his bedtimr back to 730/745 he was then ready for bottle and sleep.. He still naps during the day though is a bit younger at 16 months (although he also doesn't sleep through the night but then he never has!)

Dd is 18 months and we are having a nightmare getting her to sleep. She loves her daytime nap and goes down easily for 1- 2 hours.

Nighttime is different. She's breastfeeding so used to feed to sleep. Now she jumps about, squeals and just wants to play. Despite yawning and clearly tired. Been happening for a few weeks now. So no advice, sorry. She couldn't cope without the daytime nap. I'm thinking of pushing bedtime later.

I wouldn't rush to drop naps just yet!
There is a sleep regression at that age. My PFB went through it & luckily by the time my second arrived 2 months later he was lack to 3 hr daily naps & 7-7 night sleeping 🙌🏼

Good advice I read was if they still fall asleep easily in the car/pram then they probably still really need that day sleep.

I would persevere, as long as shes happy on a night time there isn't much of a problem to fix!

My DD became really difficult to get to sleep for a nap at about the same age and if she did have a nap, was awake later at bedtime.

Babies of friends of mine have naps every other day or 1 in 3 days rather than everyday while some (like my daughter) stopped altogether.

Bedtime did become a bit of a nightmare for a while as she was very tired by the time it came...I made it half an hour earlier for the interim. She's now 2.5 years and still gets really tired and if we go in the car I have to work very hard to keep her awake or bedtime becomes impossible.

All babies are different and you gotta do what keeps you sane! You could always try "quiet time" in the bedroom instead of insisting on sleep

Thanks all for your advice, I am nervous of stopping the naps altogether because I do think she needs it!

We tried earlier bed times for a week before and it made no difference, I was worried she was getting over tired.

I don't mind too much the chatting in bed, but if she hears us down stairs she calls out for us and then gets upset if we don't go. So we end up sitting getting no house stuff done for hours and the tv on subtitles! It's getting DH and I down that we don't have that time together. And we are struggling to get on top of the house chores

We tried letting her stay up an hour later last night to burn off more, but she went down at the same time 🤷🏻‍♀️