2yr + 3mth cutting out day sleep, is this early?

[Meluchja]

Hi,
I was just wondering at what age did your toddler cut out their day sleep?

The last 3 days, my little girl (2yr+3mth) has been happy enough to got without a sleep. For the first two days I put her down in bed but she just played happily so today I asked if she wanted to go down and she said 'no, help mummy'.

Is this a little early? I was sort of hoping to get another 12 months of days sleeps. But it is nice when my boy goes down we have some girly time. I painted her toe nails today, she loves that.

So I'm not complaining, but just curious.

[Lucy]

I reckon it really really varies. Between children, between families, and depends on stages too.

Olivia cut her day sleeps at about 3, but still has an hour "rest time" in her room.

Charlie stopped sleeping at about 2.5 years old, but now has reverted (at just over three) & will have a nap most days.

But other kids I know cut them all together at as little as 12 months!

[Curly]

In my view it's late! DS cut his day sleep out at 19 months.

[Willow]

In my experience of the kids around me it's more common at 3 than 2. My DD refused to have a sleep just after her 3rd bday but it'd been coming for a few months.

I'd persist for a while to get her to at least have a rest in her room, it might just be a phase and she might go back to having a sleep.

[Meluchja]

Thanks ladies.

I knew it would vary, but was just curious to know what other toddlers were up to. I think I will encourage rest time. My gut feeling it might just be a phase, but I will just leave it up to her.

Another reason I'm not worried about it is because she is down normally by 7pm 7:30pm at the latest, and sleeps until 6-7:30am. A friends boy the same age, is still having 2 hours a day but isn't going to bed until 8:30pm and sleeping until the same time. So they are still getting the same amount of shut eye.

Just goes to prove how different they all are.

Thanks again ladies.

[paradise lost]

My DD began declining naps about 3 months ago (at the same age as your DD) but then after about 2 weeks she went back to having them.

Nowadays if i say it's naptime she might complain and refuse and such, but if i actually put her in bed she sleeps for 90 minutes solid, so in my view she NEEDS her nap, even if she doesn't particularly want it, kwim? It depends on the kid and the parenting dynamic IMO. There are some days she doesn't want to nap and if i put her down she doesn't nap. But i fully intent to keep a "rest hour" until she's much older, whether she's sleeping or not.

Bx

[Emma1979]

my almost 18 month old sleeps for around 1.5 hours a day..... however she has been waking at night around 1-3am and is very restless and awake for quite a while... yesterday by chance she didn't have a nap, she didn't seem to need it and guess what, she slept all night.....

i think 18 months seems too early, but at the end of the day if it makes her sleep all night then i'm all for it.... of course could be a fluke, who knows... will have to wait and see...

i know people who had to wean their kids off having a daytime nap before they started school, as in 4-5 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to me that just seems ridiculous!!??

[sneakysparkle]

My sisters 3 kids all stopped daytime naps at 18mths old, but they always slept really well at night, so I guess its different for them all!

Wow, cant imagine having a 4-5yr old who naps!

[fionas]

My DP still has a day sleep when he can and he's 45!

[Meluchja]

He he he Fiona, wouldn't we all love that!!!

[Kitt3n]

apparently when I was a baby I dropped all day sleeps at 8 weeks! My poor mum

[Smoke Jaguar]

DS dropped his day sleep at about 21 months. Not sure if it had anything to do with starting childcare twice a week and deciding he could be busy instead! He still has one if he's had a very busy morning, but mainly not.

[SamiH]

My DS tried to drop his sleep when his sister came along (2yrs 2months) - but I worked out he still needed it and as long as I had given him lunch and he was comfy - he would still drop off just watching wiggles or something which saved me a fight with a newborn! He day slept until around 3yo.

However my DD has always been too busy and dropped her day sleep around 19 months too ....

I would suggest taking each day as it comes and if they look tired, give it a go, but don't worry if it is not every day.

[Meluchja]

Thanks Sami, it's exactly the way I'm going to look at it.

[sweetpea678]

Hi both my older girls droped their daysleeps around 3yrs. Though dd#2 still has 1-2 daysleeps a week and she is 5 she will sleep for about 1-2hrs. My eldest how is 8 will have a daysleep every couple of days durring the school holidays and some weekends I have gone in to her room to find her asleep durring the day. Both of them go to bed durring the week between 7-730 and sleep till 7 the next day on weekends they occasionally stay up till 8pm.

I just go with the flow if the 5yr old seems cranky and tired i tell her she has to go lay down and rest and she falls asleep.

[Curly]

i know people who had to wean their kids off having a daytime nap before they started school, as in 4-5 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to me that just seems ridiculous!!??

This was my brother!

[paradise lost]

Originally Posted by Emma1979
i know people who had to wean their kids off having a daytime nap before they started school, as in 4-5 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to me that just seems ridiculous!!??

Actually in most of mainland Europe school runs 7.30am-1.30pm and EVERYONE goes home for a nap in the middle of the day! It's not at all the international norm for people to be awake all day, people in many many societies go on having a mid-day siesta all their lives! To them it is incredibly odd to try to prevent a small small child sleeping in the middle of the day.

Bx

[DiannaQ]

DS has decided recently that he will only have a nap once every 3 days - so atm we get a day sleep on average 2 times a week - much to my dismay - i was kind of relying on his day sleep for me to have a nanna nap - we still try every day but he knows me too well