Is my 26 month old having too much daytime sleep?

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Daughter is 26 months old and has always fallen asleep fairly quickly (on the boob might I add)

but the last week or so she has been fighting bedtime, it’s taken me over 1.5 hours to get her to sleep

she currently has this routine -

wake 7am
nap 12-1:30pm
bed aim for 7:30pm (currently more like 9pm!)

is 1.5 hours a lot of daytime sleep?! I can’t remember how old my son was when he started dropping naps etc

There's no one size fits all but if it's taking her that long to fall asleep you might need to shorten the nap or move bedtime later. There can be temporary changes in sleep too though depending on what else is going on for her.

My 26 month old wakes around 6.30-7, naps about 1230 for 1h-1h15 and is in bed about 7.30. Some nights it takes her an hour of singing and potty trips to fall asleep (despite telling us how tired she is before she gets into bed...) but other nights she's asleep quite quickly. I think she'll probably drop her nap fairly soon but not convinced we're there quite yet.

I'd say yes if it's taking that long to go to bed. But also 10 hours overnight is normal (9-7) so she might just need a shorter night. Mine is 18 months and usually does 7.30-5.30. we cut the nap at 1 hour, often only does 45 mins. Sleep needs are always decreasing so very common to need to cap naps at that age, to preserve night sleep.

Yes I’d say the nap is too long. By 2 yrs my 2nd only needed 45 mins or she’d be up really late! She dropped naps entirely by about 30 months. My first could sleep for 1.5 no problem though so it just depends on the kid, some need less sleep than others.

Could be a phase? Mine goes through phases of fighting sleep and being more challenging at bed times and then goes back to normal.

Try a 15min shorter nap and see if makes a difference, and then another 15mins of needed.