Dropped nap leading to night waking?

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Really hoping someone can advise me on this!

My DD2.5 seems to be dropping napping all together. She is fighting bedtimes and some days just will not nap for love nor money.

The problem is on days she doesn't nap she is waking for hours during the night. So she's not only missing the nap she's getting poor nighttime sleep too. We put her to bed an hour earlier when she misses the nap as there's no way she can keep going until normal bedtime. She's exhausted, I'm exhausted, everyone's exhausted.

Anyone know why this could be? Will it pass? I'm too tired to think right now

Fighting going to sleep does not directly mean that the sleep isn't needed. It's mire likely to be an issue with the way she goes to sleep, I would not automatically assume she doesn't need the nap.

So in short, I would not drop the nap.

Waking in the night it likely over-tiredness. It's difficult to suggest ways to help with going to sleep because you don't give many details here. How does she go to sleep? Cot or a bed? What happens on the times she wont/can't go to sleep?

Thanks so much to the replying @FATEdestiny!

That would make a lot of sense that she is over tired because I don't think she is getting enough sleep right now.

She goes to sleep at night on her own in her bed and has done so for many months.

For the nap though she sometimes just will not do it. Even if we put her in the buggy and go for a walk sometimes she just won't fall asleep, this used to always get her off to sleep without fail. We generally try to get her to start the nap by about 1pm so it's not too late and interfering with bedtime. Maybe we need to make this later though?

In the evenings when she fights bedtime she sometimes gets up so we just keep putting her back to bed or sometimes she just spends ages laying in bed. She has also been getting up very early (5:30 ish before clock change, after falling asleep the previous evening at about 8:30).