Given up day time naps entirely at 18 months

[kerala]

Has anyone else experienced this? DD used to have a longish sleep early afternoon of at least an hour. For the last week no daytime naps at all. Hysterical screaming when she is put down so I relent and she seems fine not having a rest at all. She sleeps at night from 7-8pm ish to 6.30-7am ish.

I know am lucky that she sleeps so well at night but having no time to myself at all in the day is tough! I relied on those naps... Anyone else had this? Is it a phase and the naps will resume or is that it?

if you search old messages ( i think about september time) with my name you will find a couple of threads about this - I persevered and dd is still napping for about 2 hours per day, some days she will jsut lie in bed playing with books, toys but it's still a time when she is safe and I can do things i need to do and she always falls asleedp in the end.

I think that some children do give up their naps and then start having them again a while later. hth.

ds1 gave up his afternoon nap at 16 months, I wasn't ready to give up my nap though! Persevered for a few weeks but he wasn't having any of it...

DD is 18 months and went through this very recently, she had two naps then dropped to one and somewhere on the way it went to none!

She was clearly tired even though she screamed the place down.

I am afraid I was quite cruel and left her. I put some soft toys she could not climb on with her, and let her cry for 10 mins, then back in for a quick cuddle and left again. It was difficult but only needed to do it a couple of times, now she cries for about a minute or two, sometimes longer, sometimes not at all, and sleeps for around 1.hours at about 2-3pm ish. Sometimes she will have two shorter naps, but rarely now.

She thought she did not need it, and was ok until 8pm when she would still sleep from 8pm - 8am, but really does need more.

Good luck. My way might not suit you but it was fine for me

Still worth persevering anyway I reckon, my DD's 18 months and her napping varies wildly - if there's a lot going on she sometimes gets overexcited and refuses to sleep at all, other days she can sleep for 2.5 hours (usually when it's a quiet day at home). Times vary too, usually about 11.30am is when she gets tired, but sometimes it's after lunch, sometimes 4.30ish. Quite often I leave her in her cot for up to an hour just chatting away to herself, she seems happy enough and I tell myself that at least she's getting some rest. Know what you mean about relying on it !!

In fact I am sure DD thinks she does not ever need to sleep as is still charging around at 7:55pm, even with a story being read to her! By 8:05pm she is out for the count! But if she was not put in bed should would still be running around at 10pm, I am sure of it!

Hate to sat it but in COV houseold dd dropped naps at 18 months and despite 8 weeks of hell trying, she never resummed. I was then given a reprieve with ds who turned 3 in Dec still naps at least 1.5 hours most afternoons.

Yup, DS1 was the same. Felt really hard done by as everyone else's children gave them that time off! Put a video/Cbeebies on for an hour, just to give yourself a break. Having high stamina children can be a good thing later on, ie they get through an entire school day without losing it when they start Reception. But for now...it just feel SO unfair!! But you'll get used to it.

Thanks for the responses. Will try a few of the tricks mentioned before resigning myself to a solid 12 hours in dd's company (adorable though she is)

DS 1 at 19 months. DS2 now at 20 months. Life is just not fair. Both go down at 7.30 till 7 though.

Kerela - even if you can get Lo to just play for half hour in her cot, gives her some quiet time, and importantly, you too!
Goodluck

I remember being suicidal shocked beyond belief when dd dropped her 2hr nap to nothin agt 16mts.
I tried everything suggested but there is no way she would lie quietly in her cot even fo rhalf an hour.

I rememberit being a real trauma- I lost "my" time in the day to get things done so I really sympathise.

However,a year on#life is a lot better!. No worrying about getting home for "nap time" and actually she is able to amuse herself for a while-overall,due to her age,she is now actually quite good company {weird emoticon}

I do feel for you-I really did feel like my world had come to some sort of an end-hoep some of the other suggestions work-failing that-just look forward!