OH NO!!! its starting!!!

ok, i might be getting a little ahead of my self here, but AGGHHH!!!!
it would appear dd is following her brothers footsteps... just when i was counting on her to be the odd one out!!
when both the boys hit the 1 year mark, naps litraly became a thing of the past...:rolleyes: they would have the odd one or 2 every few days to a week, if i was lucky!
it would appear dd is going to be the same:o just when i was hoping she would keep them up, so i could have a rest while she had one when bub comes! she has been doing everything she can to not go to sleep during the day for the last week, if i could eventualy get her down, we have to tip-to as the slightest thing, and she will be bouncing off the walls again:wall:

is there any tricks out there were i can hopefully break this cycle my children seem to have?? i think its going to be the one sanity saver when bub comes if her naps go out the window, well i think my mind will be right behind them!!!

Sarah i dont know if this would work with you at all, but MJ started to do the same thing around 12mths, maybe a bit older...

I needed that time, be it dinner prep, cleaning or some time for myself - so i decided that this was rest time.
We would go into her room, read stories etc etc and then it was time for sleep - but it didnt happen, she played or just stuffed around, so i figured that down time was better than nothing, so we kept up going to bed, that became rest time. i would put on a CD that went for 70 mins (Classical) and close the curtains and tell her she needed to stay on the bed and then when the music finished it was time for up.

She fought it for a week (didnt sleep) and then the next week, she fell asleep half of the days until she was back sleeping nearly every day.
She will be 3 in 3 weeks and we still do the same thing - today she is not sleeping, she is resting on the bed with some books, tomorrow she might sleep - but it gives me that time that i need to do whatever it is that i need to do iykwim

Hope this helps

I have the same problem though DS is 3 and a half and with DD at 7 months and just found out I'm expecting #3 I need the down time. I put them both in DD's room about 12 with DS on the spare cot matteress on the floor and tell him to help put DD to sleep (she goes down by herself anyway) and after she's asleep he lays and listens to the nursery rhymes CD by himself and he slept today :)

thanks ladies! im hoping that just purely putting it out there, that she proves me wrong and holds onto the naps!!!
but realy am open to ideas, just incase!!!

Isaac is 19 months and has decided sleep is for losers. (His words not mine :p)

I put him in his cot with some books for a "rest" He usually looks through one or 2 books then throws the rest, along with all his teddies, out. then starts on anything he can reach. i just leave him be and go in when he gets upset. He doesn't do much "resting" but is always MUCH happier when he comes out.