Stopped napping a little after a year?

Question

I see all these other moms talk about their kids taking 2 naps a day until 1 and then cutting down to 1 nap a day u till like 4 or 5. My daughter hasn't napped regularly since a little over a year. She just turned 2. If she takes even so much as a 30 minute nap, shes up an extra 2 hours. I incorporate quiet time into our day, book time, yoga/stretching time. Obviously it would be a huge adjustment to add naps now. But for my next kid do I need to be keeping naps until they're older?

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What kids are still napping at 4-5? I’d say they’d be the minority, not the majority. 
My son dropped to 1 nap before he turned 1, I just followed his lead on that. They go through a ‘nap regression’ around 1-1.5 where they will fight having a nap, but that passes and they should go back to having a nap. They need a nap until they’re between 2-3

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My first totally stopped naps by 17m cause any amount of day sleep meant hours of fighting sleep.

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i think naps vary for each kid. my daughter took two naps a day til she was over two. my son moved to one nap a day after a year and sometimes he doesn’t nap. as long as they are sleeping enough at night i wouldn’t worry about. base it off your child’s needs, not what other people say you should be doing.

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11 months was when my son went from 2 to 1 nap because I noticed he wasn't going down for his naps as easily and bedtime was taking forever. He's almost 3 and still takes 1 nap. There have been days where he refuses to nap no matter how tired he is or how long he's been awake and during those times, we have him do quiet time in his room where he can read his books or play with his toys until nap time is over. Some kids dont do naps and some do. As long as the child is getting enough sleep in a 24 hr period I dont think there is anything wrong with it. My son just does not do well with no nap. He wakes up around 8:30am nap routine starts around 1:30pm, he's asleep by 2 or 2:30pm (he sits or lays in bed just fiddling with his hands or blanket for awhile most days) and I wake him up by 3:30pm and then bedtime routine starts around 8:30pm. For nap and bed time we read a few books, song our abc's and say a prayer. Having a routine rather than just being like "okay, go lay in bed and go to sleep now" really helped my son. It has him settle down and relax a little beforehand.

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My baby sister stopped napping the day she turned 1. And my other sister has napped every day she can all her 22 years. Some kids are nappers and some aren’t.

Stopped napping a little after a year?

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