Sleep schedules and naps?

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Hey guys, hope you all are doing well we are struggling with sleep recently and I was hoping you guys could help! What does your times look like for sleep/wake. 
I think my august kid needs less sleep now, but gets cranky if he misses his nap. But if he does nap he never goes to sleep 😆 heellpp!

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This has been an ongoing struggle with our little guy since February. 😂 He wakes up by 7:30 or so, refuses to nap anymore, and then goes to bed by 8 pm. He’s definitely cranky by 6 or so most nights, though. I miss him taking naps lol. I’ve given up trying to get him to take naps again. It’s not worth the meltdown that ensues if I put him up in his room midday. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Same. I think nap is gone for now. My daughter will nap once in a blue moon but at the moment we're barely even trying to get her to nap and just putting her to bed earlier than we had before. Same thing, if by some miracle she actually naps, she's awake at least an extra hour at bedtime. She does get cranky in the afternoon but I think the longer we go without the nap, she's maybe getting used to it and figuring it out. She's also eating more all day but I'm not sure if that could be related to the sleep/energy levels. 
Anyway, I don't have any useful advice to get the nap back other than keep trying if your kid seems super tired, just put him to bed and let him hang out there for a little while to see if he falls asleep. But in my experience lately it hasn't been working 😭 or take your kids for a drive - my daughter went with my husband to get some curbside pickups yesterday and completely passed out in the car even though she refused a nap (and we all got up at 3:45am because daddy woke up the baby and baby and toddler both decided they were up for the day! 😵)
I miss the nap!

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We dropped nap cause he was struggling at bed time and sleeping through the night. A typical day (which there are days he’s a mess haha)
7/730 wake up
7:15 bath
745- in bed 
If we go on a walk or a longer car ride he might doze off and if he’s really tired he could fall asleep right on the floor 😂

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my son doesn’t nap anymore. it’s been couple months now 😭

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Then drop the nap. My son sleeps 8pm-8am, no more naps. We started by shortening the naps from an hour, to 45 mins, to 30 mins then dropped it. There’s a bit of a transition period but it didn’t take long. If my son even has a quick like 15 mins power nap in the car if we’re doing errands or something. He won’t go to bed on time lol. I’m shocked how much that tiny of amount of time can affect him 😂

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My little one has the WORSE schedule but she’s up at 7:30/8ish she will literally nap from 4-6 (she can “nap” till 8 if we don’t wake her) then she goes to bed at 10. Yes she has a super late bedtime but it works for us for now.

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My son sleeps from 8-6:30. And takes one nap a day, typically from 12:30-2:30. 
He has been taking longer to go to sleep at night (I see him adjusting his blankets, singing songs, *sneaking out of his room* 😑), so I may need to start shortening the nap soon. But again, I am hanging on to that nap for as long as I can!!

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My son dropped his nap long ago and he is cranky but something that has definitely helped us is quiet time, not only does he get time to unwind but I get time to do a few things around the house and we do notice a difference when he has quiet time and when he does not, he is less cranky and he goes to bed right away

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Per my daughters pediatrician we cut naps just before she was 2.5yo. She was REALLY struggling with bedtime. Since cutting her nap she goes to bed 8pm til 6-8am. She is still waking 1-5x a night but I think it just has to do with potty training. All we do is take her potty or just go lay her back down. If she is being crazy and we know it’s going to be a rough night she has a 1mg dose of melatonin to take before bed. Also instructed by her doctor. Sleep has been so awful for her since we brought her home. Then when she has a regression it makes everyone in the house have one too.

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We were struggling with naps for a lot since last August.
That was about the time my big little one discovered that she was her very own person with her own will - and he started exercising that will relentlessly.
She was fighting her naps with an incredible force but anytime she managed to miss a nap she had issues. It was very clear she wasn't ready to drop the afternoon sleep, even though she wanted to.
It was about 7 months of fighting before she showed some real improvements. Now every now and then she will tell me that she doesn't want to sleep but she will accept my answer of "no matter whether you want to sleep or not, you have to take your nap".
She gets up around 7 on her own, announcing happily that she's awake now and ready to go enjoy the day!
I try getting some outside playtime in the mornings, usually about an hour, and I also limit her screen time (no TV channels, I'm still keeping tabs on what actually she's watching). Breakfast, snack, lunch, and she's in bed by 2pm - and then she'll try her luck to see if she can get out of naptime. She never can but she still tries, the resilient little one.
If she absolutely is not able to sleep and is visibly not tired, I'll let her go and play around 4pm. Usually she is telling me that she can't sleep between big fat yawns. Often I have to hold hands with her, occasionally holding her hands down to stop her from playing, while she's falling asleep. (Back in the fall I often had to hold her hands and legs down because she was playing with everything and anything, and washing around with her legs kept her awake very effectively. I don't know how I stayed sane.)
She usually falls asleep between 2:30 and 3:30 nowadays, but not too long ago it was more like between 3 and 4. She used to sleep about 90 minutes but since she started fighting less she has been sleeping longer, sometimes up to 3 hours but mostly around 2-2.5h.
She gets some snacks when waking up. If we can fit it in there's some outside playtime again in the afternoon, and limited screen time only. (I try to keep all screen time under 2 hours per day for now.)
She has dinner from about 7pm (and continues "eating" for a full 90 minutes lol). We can't seem to be able to all sit down to eat dinner together so she'll eat from her dinner, run away and play some, come back and sample my dinner which I'm eating more slowly, and then play again until Dad has his dinner and she will usually eat a lot from that again.
Bath at 8:30, bed at 9pm, and she is asleep by 10pm because she has a thousand questions which need to be asked even if I won't answer while lying in bed in the dark room.

Sleep schedules and naps?

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