16 months is too young to stop sleeping in the day, right?

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dh is convinced that if we drop ds's daytime sleep he'll sleep a bit longer in the morning. At the moment he goes to bed at 7pm and wakes between 5 and 5.30am - can sometimes be persuaded to go back to sleep but often not. I know we could put him to bed later, but dd needs 12 hours sleep and she's got preschool and would never stand for going to bed before her brother. So dh suggested stopping him sleeping in the day - currently he sleeps for around 90 mins in the late morning, sometimes 2 hours. But he seems so little not to be sleeping. So we're slightly stuck, and agreed we'd consult the MN sleep jury for advice.

I wouldn't fancy your chances tbh, if he wants a sleep, he'll sleep sometime during the day - worst case scenario about 3-5 then not sleepy at 7

mine have all started dropping their naps at about 17 months but it was their choice. I don't know other people in rl whose children stopped napping so early although there are plenty of others on mn

No nap = overtired = bedtime is hell and nights are bad.

Do you change nappies overnight? A nappy change before you go to bed could stop an over-saturated nappy being what's waking him all the way up at that time. Babyboner + full wet nappy = ouch. It was my DH who pointed this out.

dd had a nap till she was almost 3. DS just turned 2 still has a nap of about 2 hours.

My 16 month naps some days. Other days she is too busy. Weekends she stays up a bit later as im too lazy to get her ready for bed/we have been out all day etc. She sleeps untill 7:30am every morning.

My 3 1/2 old still needs daytime sleep most days and only a small number of her contemporaries at nursery have dropped their lunch time naps. I'm sure dropping the day time sleep isn't how to solve this. If you find the answer let us know - our 17mo has just started doing this. She comes into bed with us and sleeps longer but we haven't worked out why she is waking yet.

This website has good advise on sleep. They say that naps shouldn't really stop until they're 4. here

my dd2 is 16 months old and sometimes survives on only 45 mins leep but then makes up for it in ensuing days. i dont think this would work for a bubba so little. i think there must be a different reason. could you put a cup in the cot incase he is thirsty, change nappy as suggested etc? dropping nap mostly likely to mean falling asleep late afternoon causing all sorts of problems imhv....

The wet nappy theory is v interesting - his nappy is soaking in the morning. Think he'd go crazy if we tried to change him at 11pm but worth a go. It can't be worse than it is at the moment (4.30am then awake until 6 this morning...)

I just found this thread about a method called wake to sleep. It sounds like a great idea and I'm going to try it:
here