Is my 28 month old ready to stop napping?

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My DS has been sleeping well the last few months. We have a solid routine where he naps for around 1.5 hrs at 12.30 and and heads to bed at 7pm. Usually Wakes around 6-6.45am.

The past couple of days hes been messing around at bedtime and just doesn't seem tired at all. Whereas he would usually nod off as soon as his head hit the pillow.

We didn't put him down for a nap the other day and he went straight asleep and slept 7-7. Yesterday he napped for 1.5 hours and couldn't get him to sleep until 10pm!

Is this a sign hes ready to stop napping? I would have thought he was too young but it seems he might be ready.

Hi op. No advise but my little one is similar. Also 28 months. Taking ages to get off to nap or refusing it full stop. If he doesn’t nap will sleep 7-7, if he does have even 30 mins then won’t go to bed until past 9 and waking up at 5. It feels a little young but he dropped down to one nap at 13 months. Most of my friends children of similar age still nap so feel like I’m doing the wrong thing by not making him nap. I am offering him quiet time with stories etc I’m his room but he often won’t sleep then.

If it makes bedtime easier and he's not grumpy late afternoon I would say get rid of it. If he is still struggling late in the day I would try cutting his nap down first, so waking after 45mins for example or giving him a nap every other day.

Personally I would move the bedtime later rather than give up the nap as the quality of mood will likely be so much better after sleeping. My 3.5 year old naps and sleeps 9pm to 8am. He can skip the nap but he doesn’t behave well in the afternoon. With a nap, he’s beautifully behaved all day. His sister was the same and napped until age 4.

You can do a shorter nap or just a nap some days not others. No need to go cold turkey. Mine is 2.5 and naps about 4 days out of 7.

Thanks all. I think I will take that approach of only letting him nap someday and if so, a shorter nap. He tried to nap at 4 on the couch so that suggests to me he's not quite ready yet.

We're in the same position. At home, she just won't nap but the afternoons are bloody long and she's very cross. At childminders, she goes straight down. I'm treating it like a regression and persevering with putting her down for now.

He hasn't refused a nap or bedtime since so we've decided to only let him nap for an hour to see how he gets on with that. I think he is too young for nap to be dropped entirely. Regressions and developmentals can definitely have a part to play

My DS is 28 months as well and we had this start a little over a month ago. Used to have 1.5-2 hours at 12ish and then sleep 7.30-7.

Now he will nap every other day for the most part, it’s a totally new routine but he’ll do 7.30-7, then not nap that day, go to bed at 6.30 that night, up at 6.30-7 and nap that day.

We tried for 3 weeks to just lower the naps for an hour but he just point blank refused to nap most days and slept longer at night. We didn’t want to cut the nap completely as PP have mentioned he got grumpy around 4/5pm. This works well for us, some days he doesn’t get up until 7.30 so he’s all caught up on sleep and still having 13 hours or so.

It actually makes some days easier knowing I don’t have to be home for 12 and can take him out for the day.