Day Sleeps - when did your toddler stop?

[Feijoa Mum]

Scout turned three in March and he still sleeps everyday.
I have just started cutting him back to an hour though cause night bedtime was becoming a bit of a mission. He still needs it even though he fights me on it and tries to tell me hes not tired.
The later bedtime is so worth not having to deal with an absolute "go play on the motorway" kid I have when he doesnt have a sleep

[kiwimummy]

DS stopped at about 2.5yrs. DD is 19 months and 30-60 minutes is normal for her. She went down to one sleep at 10 months. So won't be too surprised if the day sleeps go before 2yrs (unfortunate though that will be). If she sleeps longer than 1.5hrs it is impossible to get her to bed at night.

DS mucked around like that though, and then went back to sleeping well for months, so don't give up hope!

[beckoes]

The later bedtime is so worth not having to deal with an absolute "go play on the motorway" kid I have when he doesnt have a sleep

thats how dd1 is by 5pm.!!

it hard to get used to and manage the whole day without them having a sleep at first. maybe try quiet time, give him a toy or something that he can quietly play with in his cot, atleast then, even if he stops having his day naps, you can get the routine of putting him in his room for half an hour or something and you can have a cuppa and have a breather!!

[~StarBright~]

DS started TRYING to go without and he owuld usually pass out around 3 or4 and sometimes sleep for three or so hours and then be up till oh um.. 11PM!!!!!!!

That started when he was about two and a bit... we also have a problem with bed time as Daddy gets home late and for awhile we tried to all have dinner together which wouldnt happen til like 8 or so, so the 11pm thing was actually kind of ok with our routine, and DS would sleep in til at least 9am..

But we have since moved and Dh is gettin ghom eeven later and i have gotten jack of it and gotten us into a nice routine of no nap.. dinner at 6:30, bath and bed by 8:30. He wakes up between 7 and 8 now though, which is ok coz i was always up with DD anyway.

This little routine worked great for a week when DH wasnt getting home until 9-9:30 ish, (except that he didnt get to see the kids :-( )

This week he has gotten home that little bit earlier and thrown everything into chaos.. it just gets DS sooooooo excited that there is no way he is going to sleep at 8:30 when Daddy has just walked through the door!!! And then because he hasnt had his nap he is feral the next day coz he hasnt had enough sleep!! yesterday was shocking and he ended up curling up on his bean bag at about 5 and passing out, and i had had such a day with him thta i was like "thank god!!!" he only slept for an hour and then was up til 10...

So in a perfect world DS would be ok without a nap (he is nearly three) but that littl ebit of excitement or break in our little routine stirs things up and can take days to recover from lol!!!

[Calluna]

Isaac stopped day sleeps around 19months.
It was gradual; went from sleeping every day to 3 out of every 5, then once a week, then not at all. I used to put him in his cot at the start with a few books for some quiet time which was enough to give us both a quick recharge for the rest of the arvo. He will have the odd nap in the car if we go out late in the afternoon but then he doesn't sleep until 9pm.

It was hard at first, but as we've both adjusted it's so much easier. As someone else mentioned- going out/getting things done is much easier and he goes to sleep much easier at night. His actual sleep hasn't improved but it's not worse either so I guess he was just ready to drop the day sleep.

Good luck, I hope this isn't it, but if it is it's not all bad news

[onthefly]

DS dropped his a few months ago (at around 3), but will still ocasionally fall asleep in front ofthe telly or int he car if we're very lucky. He did go through no nap phases at times, so hopefully that's all it is with your little one.