17 month old - too young to stop naps???

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I put ds to bed between 7-7.30pm, and he normally goes to sleep within about 15 minutes. He also has an afternoon nap between 1 and 2.30ish. He does wake up in the night normally, but I can usually soothe him back to sleep within a few minutes. He wakes up about 6.30am. However, recently he has been resisting going to bed even though he appears tired. Last night was a typical example: He had been awake unusually since 5.30am, had a nap between 12.15pm and 1.45pm, and then I put him to bed at 7.30pm, thinking "yes, he'll be straight to sleep!". Well 45 minutes later I had to bring him downstairs, and he was running about the living room, playing, laughing etc. Put him down at 9pm and he went straight to sleep. I again was under the false illusion that he would sleep through, when he woke up at 1am screaming and inconsolable. Ended up giving him a drink and some Calpol (he is teething also) and taking him into bed with us. He woke up at 7.45am, so can't see him going to bed early tonight. He has plenty of exercise, though has not had too much fresh air as been pretty much housebound due to snow.

DH suggested stopping his daytime naps altogether - is he too young????

you could just try moving bedtime back by half an hour, rather than cutting out the daytime nap..

Also, and not sure if this would work for you, we've always had a rule where if DS wakes up or won't go to sleep, then he stays in his room, even if we have to stay with him and cuddle him.

I was going to say the same as Imove.
One thing I never did was take them back downstairs after they were in bed, I did do it a couple of times with dd and she caught on pretty quickly so I nipped it in the bud.

I think I would try ans watch him for a few days put him for a nap if he is tired/falls asleep.
DD especially of my 2 did this a lot as she got older changed her sleeping pattern and I always found it easier to let her sdjust it herself. It did sometimes mean a few days of later nights and horribly early mornings but she always sorted herself out in the end.

He isn't too young to drop his nap if that is naturally what he needs but let him try and sort it out himself and see how it goes.

Thank you - I'll see how it goes over the next few days. I try not to take him into our bed, but sometimes in the middle of the night when I am shattered myself all willpower goes out the window!
He probably needs a good walk in the fresh air - I am going to try to brave the ice this afternoon!!

Ah see I did and still do take them into bed in the middle of the night but never took them back down the staris again I have never minded playing and even sometimes sitting up in the room with them when they were your ds age but never took them back down again.

It could even be as simple as that with the weather not getting out as much if he is used to it I know my 2 sleep badly without a good run around outside even in horrible weather.

The good result of that is my dc's are all weather lovers and never moan if we have to go anywhere in bad weather because they love it and are used to it.