18 month old refuses day naps

[Bronnie2018]

Exhausted first time mum...please be kind.

My 18 month old DD is refusing to nap!

Our schedule up until last few weeks has been:

Up 7/7.30am
Nap between 12.30/1.30 for up to 2 hours....sometimes 1hr 30
Bedtime between 7.30/8pm
Usually sleeps through bar one early on wake up for a few mins

Lately naps have been late...2pm ! After struggling to settle up to an hour!

Some days no day nap at all so early bedtime...

She has too canines coming through at the top but I can see the tips broken through....

anyone been through similar? No break in the day is a struggle!!!!

My dd refused to sleep in the day. I would take her in her pushchair round the block, not far at all and she would go straight to sleep. I would bring her back home park her in the garage with a baby monitor and she'd sleep for ages. Could you do this ? If no garage , is there anywhere else you could 'park' her?

Pretty sure there’s a sleep regression at 18 months - could be this. Things like this are normally a phase so just keep trying with the naps and hopefully soon she’ll be back to normal. My 19 month old DD has gone from a 2 hour nap to a half an hour nap which is rough so couldn’t imagine no nap at all!

Just keep putting her down as you usually would. It's annoying but will pass. Both mine when through phases of refusing naps but ended up napping until they were three.

Mine did this at 18m and again at 2. Everyone kept telling me she needed to drop her nap. She didn’t. She was clearly in need of the nap, just resisting. As the others have said, there is a regression at this age and it’s likely to be that. We just persisted in putting her down anyway. If she protested we would just tell her she didn’t have to sleep, just have a cuddle and a chat to her bears. After a few weeks, she would snap out of it and go back to napping again, and is (just about) still napping at 3.2 (I’m clinging on to it desperately lol!)
Little people are so frustrating, aren’t they? Just when we think we have consistency and a lovely routine that works, they go and try to spoil it all 😂😂

@Mrsbadger77 @SS1987 @hmmimnotsure @Hartleyhare1206

Thanks so much for all your replies.

She did not nap again yesterday but slept 6.30pm to 7.30pm overnight - waking just briefly at 9pm for a cuddle for 10 mins and that was it.

I can see two canine teeth poking through on the top but they have been like that for a while...and two bumps at the bottom - possible the other two bottom canines?

It's felt endless and I had a really hard day yesterday...trying to do some cleaning and housework - she was making mess as I tried to tidy!

I've kept trying to put her down for a nap as suggested. She was also yawning at 10.30am after waking at 7.30ambut no luck...

Feel free to share your no nap day horror tales...it's helping me get through this...

Thanks everyone

Have you got an update on this?