Refusing naps or split nights

[PipAn]

Advice needed! DD is 2 years and 8 months old. We're at a real in between nap stage. She fights naps and it can take over an hour to get her to sleep then I wake her up 1 hour later, then at night she'll fight bedtime and won't fall asleep until late. So we tried to drop the nap this weekend and she was fine in the day but had awful split nights both nights. This happened the one time she missed her nap with me a few months ago too.

However, she often skips naps at nursery (usually at least once a week) and she is absolutely fine at night!!! How?

So what do I do? Do I keep the battle of naps? Will the split nights fade? How long will it last! Help 🤣

When dd went through this phase (a but younger than yours) we did naps on a weekly cycle. So she had a nap on Wednesday and Saturday, I think it was. That just about covered the sleep debt.

Then she dropped all naps entirely by the time she turned 2. Ouch!

My dad wouldn't nap from about 18 months. It was awful. I'd spend so long trying I just gave up in the end, what's the point.
She pretty much always slept through from 7-7 though

DD not dad 😂 bloody autocorrect!!