when did your toddlers naps stop?

[nycmom18]

my 2.5 yr old skipped his 1st nap yesterday, is this about time?! i sure hope not....

[Abraisme]

My son was just over 2 when he stopped napping. If he took a nap he'd be up until 11:00pm, so I dropped the nap and bedtime went back to normal.

[Ruthie's momma]

DD stopped napping shortly after turning 3 years old. She started sleeping just over 13 hours a night (an increase from just over 12 hours). This additional hour is most often added in the morning. DD goes to bed at around 7:30.

In addition, I make sure that she gets at least a couple of quiet times throughout the day. During these times DD will read or work with craft supplies. We will also have snuggle time...

[alegna]

Dd stopped napping at 2.5 and I'm terribly afraid ds is on the same schedule.

-Angela

[Drummer's Wife]

All four of my kids stopped napping around their 2nd birthday.

[Kreeblim]

DS 1 stopped around age 3

DS 2 stopped around 4.5

DS 3 stopped at 18 mos. (and nothing we did would bring it back...he's 2.5 now)

[MamaPhD]

Originally Posted by Abraisme

My son was just over 2 when he stopped napping. If he took a nap he'd be up until 11:00pm, so I dropped the nap and bedtime went back to normal.

Same with us, except DD was 20 months!

[bodhitree]

Can I just pop in to ask whether all of your DC were sleeping through the night when they stopped napping? I had a huge freakout a couple weeks ago, thinking that DD might be dropping her nap, but she still isn't sttn (wakes up four times on a good night). That would be so cosmically unfair that I don't know if I could manage to deal with it. She has been napping again since then, so hopefully she will keep napping for a long time to come.

[LadyCatherine185]

This week DS seems to have dropped his nap (he's 26 months). I've been debating cutting it out for awhile, because bedtime had become increasingly more difficult and later and later... and he was still getting up at 6-6:30 every morning. This week he's been going to bed around 8 (instead of 9:30-10) and sleeping until 6. I miss the naptime, but I really enjoy having time in the evening with DH even more. Plus with a new baby, I am really going to need those extra nighttime hours.

DS does STTN most nights now, but still only "needs" about 10-11 hours of sleep a day.

[Kreeblim]

Originally Posted by bodhitree

Can I just pop in to ask whether all of your DC were sleeping through the night when they stopped napping? I had a huge freakout a couple weeks ago, thinking that DD might be dropping her nap, but she still isn't sttn (wakes up four times on a good night). That would be so cosmically unfair that I don't know if I could manage to deal with it. She has been napping again since then, so hopefully she will keep napping for a long time to come.

Depends on what you mean by sttn. DS 3 who dropped his naps when he was 18mos. still needed comforted and fed a couple of times a night when it happened. He never woke up to play or anything though. He's 2.5 now and just recently stopped night feeling...like a couple of months ago. Now he goes to bed at 8pm, once-in-a-blue-moon needs comfoted for a few minutes at some point, and wakes up between 9am and noon (!!!). Every night.

[Baby_Cakes]

Just before turning 2. Maybe 20 months??

[Summersquash]

Noooooo.....

DD is still waking to eat every 2-3 hours or so at night and is still sometimes latched on a LOT during the night. We nap together and I've really come to rely on that rest time! I really hope she keeps napping until she starts sleeping a little better at night!

[Peony]

DD1 had just turned 2 when she stopped napping. She STTN from age 3-5. I stopped putting DD2 down by the time she was 2.5 for a nap because she would only nap a short time and then be up till 10pm. She is 4 and STTN sometimes now.

[mamakaikai]

DD started skipping naps around 2, and then dropped them completely by 27 months. She sleeps 10 hours at night. We've tried getting her to bed earlier at night but then she wakes up earlier. I wish she would sleep more!! But she does great with that amount of sleep.

[LiLStar]

I'm desperate for ds to get back to normal napping! He's nearly 18 months and for the last month or so, either hasn't napped, or napped after 3pm. Before, he was on a great routine of waking around 8, give or take, napping around 1-3 (sometimes till 4!), give or take, and then going to bed around 8-9pm. Perfect. He WAS teething, but they're all in now. He had a couple weeks where I'd try so hard to get him to sleep at his normal time, and then he literally would not sleep until 3pm!! Then I'd wake him at 5, and then he wouldn't fall asleep till like 11 Then sleeping in later makes the nap even more impossible. Skipping the nap in hopes of early bed, earlier wake, and nap the next day. Doesn't work. I even tried a *very* small dose of melatonin (cut a tablet into 8ths) around 8:00pm to try and reset his rhythm. It worked in that he went to bed early. He did not wake any earlier. Even on the days that he DOES wake at like, 7:45 he still. will. not. nap. at a reasonable time. He might pass out in the car at 4:00, however. But that just makes bedtime hell. Thats pretty much the only time he sleeps during the day. After 3, and in the car. *Sigh* I'm NOT ready to give up naps!! There's gotta be some way to fix this? A food allergy? Aaaanything?!

[elisheva]

Both ds1 and ds2 have done this wacky thing for several months while dropping their naps (ds1 was 2.5 and ds2 is now dropping his at 26 months): they are ready for bed at 5:30, but if I put them down then, they are back up and ready to party around 730 or 8. So, we end up torturing everyone involved and try to keep them awake until at east 630 when they have both been more likely to sttn (maybe needing a cuddle once? They were both night-weaned by this point) for 12-13 hrs. So, yeah. Nap dropping stinks a little but once you get through it with one, the next is easier.

[belltree]

Around 10months. He sometimes takes a quick nap, but not on a daily bases. Most days he does not nap any longer.

[ellemenope]

I guess I don't believe in cutting a todders nap.

We might go a couple of days without one. We might go a couple of days with one. We just take it day by day. But, we do keep encouraging DD to nap.

I love rythm. I love schedules. I love consistency. And, we try. but, I will sacrifice that over "cutting" her nap for good.

[lyterae]

DD is 4.5 and naps about every other day. Prior to September (preschool) she was still napping daily.

[LadyCatherine185]

Originally Posted by ellemenope

I guess I don't believe in cutting a todders nap.

We might go a couple of days without one. We might go a couple of days with one. We just take it day by day. But, we do keep encouraging DD to nap.

I love rythm. I love schedules. I love consistency. And, we try. but, I will sacrifice that over "cutting" her nap for good.

well when it takes 30 minutes to get him to sleep, he only sleeps for an hour and 15 min's, and then is a total grump for the hour after he wakes up.. and fights bedtime like the plague and doesn't go to bed until 10 pm or later, only to wake up at 6 AM....... sometimes they are telling you they need to drop their nap.