How to get toddler to nap longer?

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Hi momas! So my daughter is 20 months old and has never been that good of a sleeper. She was 15 months before she started sleeping through the night consistently. She every once in a while has a night where she drops her binky out of the crib & cries but goes back to sleep as soon as go in and give it to her. However nap time is a different story. She only sleeps for 45 min to 1 hour. This just is not enough sleep for her and for me cause she wakes up cranky. She usually goes to sleep right around 1 after she has eaten lunch & played for a bit. I have tried putting her down earlier & later. She does sleep in her crib in her own room & has a stuffed rabbit she likes. I am a stay at home mom and currently 16 weeks pregnant & exhausted! Just need her to nap longer! Any advice would be much appreciated!

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my daughter is 18 months and she doesn't nap... rarely like once a month she will nap for about an hour, but other than that she sleeps from 8pm to 630/7am and does not nap.

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What time of day are you putting her down for her nap? And what time does she wake up in the morning and go to bed at night? It could just mean an adjustment to your schedule a bit.

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I don’t think there’s anything you can do.. 45 mins to a hour is kinda long for a nap tbh.. if she slept any longer than that throughout the day you’d probably find she wouldn’t sleep much at night.

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My daughter started to get like this around that age and by the time she turned two, she dropped her nap completely.

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She doesn't take a bottle 😐 But does have her binky. And no I don't lay with her. She sleeps in her crib & I can lay her down while she is still awake & I don't have to rock her to sleep. Every once in awhile when she wakes up I can rock her back to sleep but not often. She used to take 2hr naps but just within the last 2 weeks her naps keep getting shorter & shorter. She is a very busy toddler and I just think she is too busy nap. 😞

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one of the things I did with my son at 12m put couple books hard cover flap and kept him entertained. now, I put his electronic music. ABC thing in his crib and keeps him entertained and he crashes eventually. he's almost 2 and will be out of crib by 2.5 or 3yrs...

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it happens! My advice would be make sure she’s getting enough stimulation during the day, doesn’t even have to be something where she’s running around making you tired, as long as it’s something she’s taking in it could make her more sleepy! Have you tried giving her a bottle to have a nap time to soothe herself with? 
do you lay with her? My son wakes up mid way through his naps and is always so so fussy so you KNOW he needs to nap longer, so I’ll lay in bed with him and he cuddles up to my arm and sleeps for another hour 
(It hasn’t always been like that though, we’ve had a lot of struggles to get him to sleep!)
Good luck!

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