Please tell me she's too young to be dropping her day sleep

[danniellabella]

My DD is almost 19 months and I'm a little worried. On Saturday and today she refused to have her day sleep at all. She normally sleeps after lunch for 1.5-2.5 hours every day. Goes to bed around 7:30-8pm every night and gets up at about 7am every morning. This is consistant and has been for a long time. But as I said on Saturday and today (Monday) she refused to go to sleep at nap time. She had her bottle as normal. Was in her room for about 15 mins nice and quiet and then was up knocking on the door and calling out to us. We ignored her until she started crying. It was a kind of moaning cry at first but then got more serious so we would go in to her. She would be standing by the door and as soon as it was open she would burst out an be full of energy. Now when she was put to bed, she looked clearly tired.

I should point out that on Sunday she slept for about 3 hours in the afternoon no problem at all.

Please tell me she's too young to be dropping to a day sleep every second day. I'm so not ready for her to not have day sleeps.

[CrystalBoo]

IMO if they're still growing, they still need a day sleep, with only rare exceptions.
DD goes through stages every now and then when she seems to take much longer to go to sleep and mucks around a bit. Usually, I sit/lie with her and hold her hand for a while until she's sleepy and she'll go off, and then the phase passes after a week or so.
I'm praying for day sleeps right up until school age...good luck!

[sneakysparkle]

DD#1 started to drop out her day sleep when she was 22mths old. It took a while to get a new routine happening, but we got there eventually and then she was sleeping so much better at night - asleep at 6:30pm instead of 8pm and for about 12hrs.
Hope she keeps her sleep a bit longer for you

[Lulu]

Mine dropped day sleeps about 18 months - sheesh it sucked.

[danniellabella]

Mine dropped day sleeps about 18 months - sheesh it sucked.

Oh drats

[Arimeh]

Yeah Aricyn started dropping his just before he turned 2. First it was every so often, then it turned into every 2nd or 3rd day, then every 2nd.. then nothing.

Now he will only have a nap if we are out in the car - but we prefer him not to have a day sleep cos he'll go to bed at 7ish instead of 10!!!

[hayles07]

DS dropped his day sleeps around 18 months too.

[BekZ]

My DD2 is 22 months and has missed 3 out of 7 day sleeps in the last week. I am hoping that this is just a phase because I am so not ready for her to drop her day sleep. My neice dropped her days sleeps at 15 months.

Atm my strategy is to continue to put her down for a day sleep and cross my fingers that she goes down. Good luck