Do you (or did you, or would you) wake your toddler when they have napped for 'too long'?

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I never have done, reasoning that sleep is important and if she needs to sleep she should sleep.

But yesterday she slept for 3 hours 10 minutes!!! This is a girl who usually manages between 40-90 minutes. And then we had the most dreadful night's (non)sleep last night.

She's been down for over 2 hours now. Hasn't had lunch yet. Am wondering whether to wake her. I've stopped being quiet and have been in and out of her room a few times but she's sleeping quite deeply as she's not stirred.

Wake her? Risk of disturbing much needed sleep.

Leave her? Risk of her not sleeping much again tonight. But then she might sleep badly anyway even if I wake her.

I would wake her.

I wouldn't have dared. The formula went:

Wake up, milk, poo, screamed not to have her nappy changed. I remember it well

Wake her. She is probably sleeping to catch up on last night. Better to let her be a bit grouchy this afternoon than put up with another bad night. I used to wake both mine after 2 hours.

About a month ago i started waking my DS up. He was sleeping for upto 4 hours in the day. We changed it to 1hr and he is fine with it, in fact he is happier child when he wakes up!
He is 22mo btw

I know the problem - although usually ds goes to bed better if he has had a good sleep during the day. I do get to the stage where I wake him if he's had a long sleep and we do have to do something (normally walk the dog before it gets dark) - I just try to wake him gently and expect him to be quite sleepy for at least 5 mins.

Def wake her!

I would wake her. DD can keep going till after ten at night on just a half hours sleep durin the day. She sleeps much better eight till eight when she has no nap.

Funny this! I was just wondering the same thing! DD has been asleep for 2 hours now, she NEVER sleeps in the day for more than 45 mins. I ma trying to sort out the night waking probs at the moment and it worked well last night. I'm sondering if she gets more sleep night and day, maybe we will crack it...

oh the irony... wont sleep when you want to , sleep too long when yo dont and you end up waking them

i am with you in your dilemma!

sorry, no answers for you... maybe take her covers back, open curtains/ turn on light etc... so she 'wakes on her own'

My DD also has not had her lunch yet!

bugger, our day 'routine' is up the creak isn't it? !

Hmph. Well I've opened the curtains and given her a good poke. Nothing.

"Shall we wake up and have some lunch now?"

Nothing.

And she's too far away in the far corner of the cot for me to reach her over enormous pg bump .

WAKE UP LITTLE BUNNY!

oh this reminds me of when DS was 13mths. He had a nap at 2pm, DP came home from work early, DS was still napping. We ummed and ahhed, until DP made the final decision. Leave him be. I was on tender hooks all evening, 7.30 came and went, DS was still napping. It was 10 30 pm before he woke. All fresh and ready for a new day. That was the longest day of our lives. Wake her, and wake her now.

10.30?? Eeek sixer. Am exhausted just thinking about that.

I woke her. She was furiously grumpy for about 20 minutes and then cheered up. Getting on for bedtime now and she's pretty tired. Yawning. Fingers crossed.

Yes, I always woke mine when they had had two hours. Or, I should say, I always woke ds; I don't think dd ever managed more than an hour

DD woke up herself not long after being on here. she had 2.5 hours in the end. AND still went to sleep no probs tonight. I am well pleased!

I always had to wake up ds from naps.
He would've slept for hrs if I let him and then not gone down at night.

We have days like this and I get a bit tetchy after two hours but in actual fact it doesn't appear to affect her night sleeping. If I do wake her she is the biggest grump you've ever met so not sure it's worth it.

ds tends to sleep more when he's having a growing spurt, as he is at the moment. He's 3.2 and at the weekend he slept for 3.5 hours (noon- 15:30) then went to bed as normal at 7.30/8 for his 11 hours kippage. And yes I do know I'm lucky that he still wants a nap in the day at his age

We are pretty flexible about bedtime, so he stays up a bit later sometimes if he's had a long nap, and I also try to make his afternoon extra-active to tire him out properly. Somedays they just need more sleep than other days. I know I blimmin well do! Hth.

Hope you have a better night.

Personally I tend not to wake dd unless we need to go out, but she tends to sleep well the following night regardless. Yesterday I put her to bed at 1pm and got her up at 5.10pm!! She still slept over 12 hours last night!

dd rarely slept long enough for me to have to wake her tbh (she dropped her nap at 20 months having only started at 5 months)

With ds, my second, I had no choice but to wake him up as we would have to collect dd from nursery/school.

I have started to wake up DS (2.11) after about 2 hours now. Any longer and the second half of the day's just not long or light enough to do anything or exercise him...god I make him sound like a puppy! He's usually awake though when I go in, just chilling with his thoughts, slowly waking himself up. Must admit it takes about 15 minutes before he stops being a little tetchy, but I very early on made the mistake of letting him sleep as soon as he slept and had a dreadful night.

I've always had to wake DS as he'll sleep for ever (takes after his Mum!).