How much sleep for nearly 3 year old?

[Crumpets4butter]

DD is 2 years 8 months. In lockdown she doesn't seem to need much sleep...at the beginning she was going to bed at 9pm rather than 8pm then waking at 4am for the day 😳 then it got better around 9pm-7pm but now bedtime has crept up to even later...last night it was the ridiculous time of 10:30pm and she was still up at 7am. She stills naps for around one hour in the day (just after lunch usually) but is only getting 9-10 hours sleep in a 24 hour period. I know it's not terrible but it doesn't seem like enough. Anyone similar?

The NHS recommend 13 hours total for this age.

www.nhs.uk/live-well/sleep-and-tiredness/how-much-sleep-do-kids-need

I would move bedtime earlier.

It seems a bit on the short side. However, you can’t MAKE someone sleep, and some children don’t seem to need quite the recommended amounts (my DD is 3, she sleeps 10.5 hours more or less exactly each night at the moment. Putting her to bed earlier just means she sings in her bed for longer).

I find that two things affect how long my DD sleeps:
How much social interaction she’s had - this seems to have more impact on how tired she is than how much physical activity she’s had. This means lockdown has meant she seems to need less sleep.
The time of year - she sleeps more in winter than in summer. So do I!

You could try creeping bedtime earlier by 10 minutes every couple of days. See what happens to her wake-time and decide if it works better for you.

Dd is 3 and she sleeps 7:30-6ish most nights and has a nap on non-nursery days for an hour at around 11 (so I can have a coffee in peace!)

I find she’s far easier to put to bed if we’ve been out and she’s been very active. Honestly think toddlers are basically Labradors, so good walk in the morning and the afternoon and she zonks out. If we have a quiet day at home so I can tidy/clean etc she is a nightmare to get to bed.

Try bringing bedtime earlier by 10 mins a day. Sleep begets sleep with small ones and I find if Dd is overtired she needs less and less sleep until I can get her back into a good routine.

Thank you for all the replies! She is at nursery today so hopefully will be tired tonight! I will try and get her to sleep around 10...sounds crazily late but small steps are the way forward.

Drop the nap? Might not increase total number of hours but will hopefully bring bedtime forward.

Mine is the same! Almost exactly the same age. She doesn’t nap anymore and if she does - falls asleep in the car or something - it’s very late before she’s asleep at bedtime. These days on average it’s 9 before she’s asleep, wakes up at 6.30 if we’re lucky! Either social interaction or physical activity is the answer, but I have a newborn too so playing with her in the absence of friends is hard. So much of parenting seems to be tiring the wee sods out enough to make them go to sleep!

Do you wake her after an hr of napping? Would she nap for longer?