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My DD dropped her day sleep at about 2.5, maybe a bit before. She sleeps from 8pm-7.30am. If she is ill she'll often pick up the day-sleep again for a few days until she's well on the mend. After a very busy day she'll sometimes fall asleep in the car/on the sofa at about 6 and sleep right through but it's rare.
My weirdo DD(4) sleeps only 10 maybe 11 hours overnight most nights! She has never slept alot. She goes down at 7.30pm every night, and wakes sometime between 6-8am...
DD stopped her daytime sleep when DS came along, she was about 3.5yrs. The only reason she stopped her naps was because I was just too tired & busy concentrating on having 2 kids instead of one to put her to bed :lol:
She goes to bed at 7:30pm & is up anywhere from 7-9am.
I wouldnt worry about the long hours sleeping, DD has been sleeping 12-14 hours a night since she was 3 days old!!! I had MCHN's telling me it wasn't right as she'd be "starving" by the time she woke up, I went by what my mum told me... "never wake a sleeping baby" & I now have a very healthy 4.5yr old daughter.
Some kids just like to sleep!!!! I say enjoy it, we are some of the few incredibly lucky parents who have children who sleep through! :)
Your DS sounds very much like my DS1. ATM we are trying to decide whether to drop the daytime sleep completely and put up with a cranky boy in the evenings, but who goes to sleep by about 7. Or to keep getting him to have his nap, have a nice boy at night, but who won't sleep until about 10pm. Either wasy he is up between 6 and 7am. I think I am just going to have to put up with a monster in the evenings for a while... at least then DH and I have some time together. And DS2 has some quiet alone time with his parents. ;)
Don't worry about your DS sleeping too much. My brother is 27 and he would still sleep 12 hours a night if he was allowed to. :lol: I say be thankful!
DD is 3.5 and I stopped 'making' her have a nap about 6 months ago, she just wasn't sleeping well at night.
I find she still needs a nap once or twice a week though, I guess I have a more 'go with the flow' way of handling of it. If she didn't get to sleep early the night before or was up early that monrning I'll get her to have a nap and then not have one the next day.
she goes to bed at 8pm and its up around 6.30-7am. When she does have a nap I try to make them less than 2hrs or I find she gets over slept and grumpy.
My DD 3.5years old dropped her arvo nap for a few months then when she started 3year old Kinder (one day a week for 2.5hrs only) she went back into a 2hour sleep in the arvo (about 3-5pm) ... and goes to bed at about 8.30pm wakes about 8am ... If she doesn't have an arvo sleep for whatever reason we put her to bed earlier that night !!
(her Dad gets home about 7.30pm or later 5nights a week so they have some time to spend together, as he leaves for work before she gets up in the morn)