How did your toddler drop their nap?

[AliceW89]

Did they still nap for 1.5 or 2 hours quite happily but bedtime became a battle…or did they just refuse to nap at all/not fall asleep until silly o’clock in the afternoon?

Potentially typing this watching 2 year old DS sprint up and down his cot with his socks on his head humming The Grand Old Duke Of York.

Not too helpful but I am dreading mine dropping his nap. He will be 3 in a few weeks and I know nap times may soon be a thing of the past.
Has this happened a few times or is it the first time he hasn't gone to sleep straight away? What does he seem like when it comes to nap time and does he drift of quickly for a nap?

My eldest just laid in her cot chatting for an hour and a half quite happily when she started dropping naps, then was ratty from about 4.30pm for a bit, but powered through until 6.30/7pm for bed.

My youngest (2.5) is going through this now and flat out refuses the cot in the day but a couple of times a week I'll make sure she has a pram/car nap around lunchtime as she can't yet make it all week without a nap. It's a rubbish time but I'm hoping she's dropped altogether by the summer hols as I can't walk/drive when my eldest is off school.

Complete nap refusal happens maybe only once a week at most (although he has just dropped off now thank goodness!) but generally it’s getting later and later…he’s up at 7 and it’s a massive win having him down by 13:30. Such a pain when I then have to get him up again at 14:30 if I want any form of an evening 😂

My youngest was 2 in March and we didn’t have any nap refusal but we did get to a point where bedtime was 9pm so we dropped the nap over night!! She occasionally still has 20 minutes on the school run but she still goes to bed at a sensible time luckily! I’ve got 4 daughters and they were all pretty similar in how they dropped their naps and their ages - none of them got to 2.5 and still napped!!

He just refused to nap and stomped around in his cot for a few afternoons in a row. When he finally fell asleep, there wasn’t too much nap time left before the evening routine would be in danger so I had to wake him up and he would throw a 1 hour tantrum and be moody until bedtime.

Thanks all. He’s literally only just 2 (2 and 1 month) but he’s showing some signs of being en route to dropping it I guess. Bedtime is definitely more of a challenge on days he’s napped for 1 or 1.5 hours then the days he’s refused it or literally slept for 20-30 minutes (like today). I’d forgotten how much of a PITA nap drop phases were 😬

Currently going through nap refusal/bed refusal/sleep regression/waking up screaming in the night with 2.4 yo. Bloody hellish. Whole household is tired.

We're experimenting to find the solution - no nap, shorter nap, earlier bedtime, supper/no supper. Putting them back to bed if they leave it (which seems to be the main advice) is pointless as they will just keep getting up over and over again.

Hoping it passes soon because I feel like a zombie.

Mine does the same. With or without a nap bedtime takes forever and he’s never asleep before 8.30-9pm

he naps 4-5 days a week. I have started taking him for a walk in pram if he’s faffed longer than 30 mins at naptime. If he falls asleep then bonus.

I wake him by 3- 3.30pm, but like you say it’s a right pain when you start nap at 1pm, he faffs, 1.30-45 give up and off to walk, faffs and falls asleep at 2.15. Wake at 3-3.30pm.

if he doesn’t nap he Easily goes through to 9pm without, but doesn’t sleep any better or longer at night, so I really try and get him down somehow so I have an hour to get stuff done

Two of mine refused a nap point blank at 12 months. The other was three. Again, she refused to have one.