Toddler (2.5 years) dropping last nap and it's driving me insane.
For a while her routine was roughly: nap at 2pm. I let her sleep for as long as she wants (I have tried capping the nap - more on that later). She sleeps 2 hours. Goes to bed at 9pm. She'll then wake up 7, 7.30am.
But now... Won't nap until 3...4...5 or not at all....
If I cap a late afternoon nap, she's horrendously grumpy all afternoon/evening AND struggles to go to sleep at bedtime because she's overtired.
If she doesn't nap at all, she'll be horrendously grumpy but she can sometimes make it until bedtime - 7:30 and sleep until 7 the next day (yay!). But this is honestly quite rare. More often she can't make it and crashes at 5:30/6 thinks it's a nap and then is awake until 10:30/11pm (even if we cap it at 20mins).
She's also started waking at 5am, not going back to sleep again - but then falling asleep at 10am for two hours - and then still not going to bed until 10pm!!
It's the unpredictability of it that's the worst bit. I'm finding it really hard to get anything done (cook dinner for instance) or leave the house.
Is this normal??? Is the anything I can do?