DS is 2.5, and I’m wondering if it’s time to drop his nap. He had a lovely routine until about two months ago, but it has gone haywire recently and isn’t working for anyone.
In an ideal world he would nap between 1-3, then go to bed 8pm - 7am. He was doing that up until August (when we moved house, no idea if that is related or just a coincidence).
He fights his nap and now usually goes down at about 2-2:30pm (used to be just after midday). But then once he is asleep he will sleep for 3 hours plus - we have to wake him at 5pm for dinner, but he would sleep past 6pm if we let him, so he is obviously tired. He is then wide awake until 9 or 10 at night (we put him into bed at 8pm but he doesn’t sleep), and sleeps through to 7-8am.
When we don’t let him nap, he is really grumpy by about 5pm and needs to be put to bed by 6pm. Doesn’t sleep as well at night (overtired, keeps waking up throughout the night).
Should we just drop the nap and have done with it? Persevere with naps but wake him up earlier? (He is in an awful stroppy mood all afternoon if we wake him up). Carry on with late naps and late bedtimes until he can cope better with no naps?