18 month old won’t sleep during day but sleeps for 13.5 / 14 hours on a night.

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Hi everyone.

I’m looking for some advice as above my little girl is nearly 19 months and will not nap during the day. She goes to bed at 7pm and gets up 8.30/9am.

Some days I have tried waking her up at 7am and she is really groggy and in such a bad mood. If she then has a nap she will not settle on a night and then wakes up nearly every hour , so I can see that her way is working for her.

I’ve read online they need 14 hours of sleep at this age should I be concerned she is getting it all together? Is this just a phase and she will grow out of it.

Thanks in advance :)

No be thankful they sleep through and you get proper adult evenings!

Totally fine, nothing to worry about.

Often children have to fit in with work patterns, nursery, older siblings getting to school.... that's why they don't get to lie in and then nap instead. Left to their own devices, I'm sure many would be like your DD. My first was, but DC2 had to slot in and I don't think he was better rested as a result.

My 18 month old is exactly the same! The most she'll nap in the day is 20-30 minutes, but she does almost always do 12-13 hours straight at night... I think it's just the way she's programmed.

It's slightly irritating (if you want some respite during the day..) but I tell myself my little one's sleep patterns don't seem to be doing her any harm at all!

Don't do anything but thank your lucky stars!! Why change something if it's not broken! Enjoy time to yourself of an evening x

Thanks so much for the replies everyone. I did feel awful waking her up but she seems to be fine if she was falling asleep in the afternoon I would of course say she was needing a nap but she is fine up until 30 minutes before bed and at that time it’s more than reasonable to be feeling tired :)

Sometimes you just need some reassurance :) x

You could put her to bed at 6.30pm so she wakes up around 8am if later is getting tricky for work/nursery, but otherwise so long as she is happy, healthy and getting enough sleep I wouldn't worry.

My daughter stopped napping at 20 months and the inly way I could get her to sleep was in the car but then she would wake up in a terrible mood. It wasn't worth the struggle and we were all much calmer when I accepted that she didn't need the nap just a slightly earlier bedtime.

Enjoy the sleep

Sounds good to me too.

My DDs were totally different - one had an afternoon nap every day til nearly 2.5 years and slept all through the night. The other gave up her nap at less than a year old and did not sleep through the night and woke up at silly o'clock.

Now that they are teenagers, the napper sleeps around 9 hours a night (and gets tired if she has less) and the non-napper sleeps about 6 hours a night and never ever looks tired.