Would you drop the day sleep?

[Beach Mama]

Cheeky poppets - must be the name! Good luck hun - I think just try it and see and if worse comes to worse you can change things again - nothing is permanent with these cheeky ones!

[jacintac]

Give it a try - I am going to miss my day sleep time so much!!!!
Good luck!

[OceanPrincess]

Just thought I'd update for any who are in a similar position!

We've had three day/nights since the post: first day we woke her up after about 1.5hrs... she was asleep by 8.15pm that night.

Second day: she refused to sleep at all (just kept getting out of bed and wanting to play, happy enough but didn't want to sleep) and she was out like a light by 8pm.

Yesterday: had a BIG morning playing with some awesome kids, crashed in the car on the way home and kept sleeping for over 2hrs... I had someone come around to work on something with me so it suited me that she stayed asleep... my bad... she was then awake til 9.30pm.

I am definitely seeing a pattern here.

She is not ready to completely drop the sleep - on Monday when she had no sleep at all, by 6pm she was a mess - irritable, grumpy, grizzly, whingey, didn't eat her dinner and then was really awful after dinner. We were at my sister's house and she kept deliberately antagonising her cousins - pushing them, wrecking their train set, stealing their toys... and I know it was because she was tired.

So I've told the nanny not to let her sleep more than an hour today and we'll see how we go tonight.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

DD1 is 3 this month and hasnt had a day sleep since she was 2. We do quiet time most afternoons though which consists of a blanket, a pillow and TV for about an hour. There is no way in hell I would have been able to get her to have a day sleep at 2yrs 9months, so I think you have done well to get one out of her this long

[~Kaz~]

Thanks for your update OP. You know the issues we have with DS. I have actually tried to cut out his daysleep at home and limit it to 1 hour when he's in care and he wouldn't have a bar of it lol!! Somedays he doesn't have a sleep at home but others he will and he sleeps every day at care, usually for 1 to 1.5hours. I'd love to cut it out cause I think he'd be asleep at a reasonable hour too instead of sometime between 8-9pm

Good luck with Miss I. I really hope it resolves your evening bedtime to cut back on the day sleep.

[OceanPrincess]

DD1 is 3 this month and hasnt had a day sleep since she was 2. We do quiet time most afternoons though which consists of a blanket, a pillow and TV for about an hour. There is no way in hell I would have been able to get her to have a day sleep at 2yrs 9months, so I think you have done well to get one out of her this long

Lol thanks MM... my niece is 3yrs 4mths and still has one!

Kaz - I hope so too...

[Jellyfish]

My DD was very similar, up so late at night after having a day sleep which I thought she still needed. A little after she was two, we dropped it and after a few days, she started going to sleep within about 5minutes between 6-6:30pm (still does). It was hard losing the day sleep at first and if we are ever out she will still try to sleep in the car but I've become a master of distraction. If she ever does have a nap, she is up past 9pm and I much prefer having the evening free with my DP than a few hours by myself in the middle of the day hehe. Dropping the sleep was the best thing we ever did, she was cranky those first few days but once she settled into an early bedtime, she has been fine; guess she only needed the day sleep because she was going to bed so late. I try to do any big outings etc in the morning while she is still fresh but we haven't had any problems of her becomming overtired, we always have quiet time where we read or do puzzles etc; she also started sleeping through a few nights a week and only waking once on the nights she doesn't (was previously up every few hours, even at 2).