Is your toddler still taking a nap?

Question

Mine has been showing signs lately of wanting to drop his one nap a day. It’s usually 1-3pm, but lately he’s been taking longer to fall asleep then wakes up really late, 4pm or later. It’s been throwing his 8pm bedtime off and he takes forever to fall asleep at night. He’s also been super cranky when waking up from naps. 
Today, after an hour of him being wide awake in his crib babbling instead of napping, I gave up and we didn’t do a nap. He was fine all day! Even went to bed at his usual time but fell asleep MUCh quicker. All signs point to him being an early nap-dropper. Is anyone else in this boat? I’m gonna go crazy without a break in the day anymore 😰

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Sadly ours stopped napping just before she turned 2…the only time she will nap is if we are out in the car.  We were abit gutted when we lost that 2 hours in the middle of the day, but then it has brought bedtime a little earlier, so we get abit more evening time back instead.

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I feel like mine is starting to consider dropping his nap, but he really is not ready.  He still sleeps 2-3 hours and boy does he need that.  He still gets crabby as can be when nap time rolls around.  I dread the day nap time is gone.  My older two dropped naps at 1.5 and it was awful!

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We do quiet time with my daughter(3). She’s stopped napping, but we just tell her she needs to play in her room quietly or read while the babies are napping. It took a little bit of time, but she is doing better with staying quiet.
You could also still wake him up at the 3:00 mark even if he fell asleep at 2. That way his wake windows before bed doesn’t get messed up and he still goes to bed at his normal time.

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We went through this right after he turned two. It was a few weeks of him taking either no nap or a very short one. He would be totally fine at 7:30 pm without a nap, and would just fall asleep quickly that night. But after a few weeks he went back to taking a nap every day.

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Every so often my daughter has a day where she skips her nap, but I still leave her in her room for an 1-1 1/2 hours to play quietly or look at books. Those days she ends up miserable and super cranky by the end of the day and barely makes it to bed time. Most days she naps 1 1/2-2 hours, she goes to bed around 8:15-8:30 and it takes her 15-45 minutes to fall asleep, but she just lays in her bed talking to her stuffed animals or looking at books.

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She mostly naps still 90% of the time from 12:30-2pm. If she doesn’t nap, she doesn’t go to bed an easier- in fact she typically fights going to bed worse. My oldest is 6yrs old and totally spoiled us with naps… just this year she’s been refusing. But, she’s an awful sleeper at night (up by 530am on the dot STILL). So I’m with you… I’m going to cry if Tinsley weans naps early.

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Still having ours about 1pm im pregnant and i need that nap time lol

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She naps at daycare most days but then she takes forever to fall asleep at night so her 7:30 bed time has turned into somewhere between 8 and 9. When shes home, most days she doesnt take a nap and if she does she only takes an hour to an hour 15 nap but then usually goes to bed better.

Is your toddler still taking a nap?

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