Is he ready to drop his nap?

EcoBaby

My kid has stopped sleeping at night. Okay - he's rarely slept anyways, but now he's only sleeping 7-9 hours at night. He's NEVER done that. The only time his sleep has been interupted like this was when he needed to drop one nap. He only takes 1 nap a day, so this would mean no naps.

 We recently night-weaned so I thought that was the problem, but now I think there is more going on.

Anyone else's kid drop their nap around 2? It seems WAY too young.

jsugrin

My oldest stopped napping around 2.5 but I knew once we hit two that our days were numbered.  He also never slept well, no STTN until 15 months and we had a 1 hour nap.  Still with another little one I was so not ready to give up that hour.

For us we knew it was time to force the issue when on days he napped he wouldn't go to sleep for anything until close to 10.  This was a kid who had really just barely stretched his bedtime from 6:30 or 7 to 7:30-8.  On the days he didn't nap he was going to sleep around 7ish.  So I just stopped putting him down for a nap and instead had quite time (which for us was reading or youtube with Daddy, this kid is not hanging in his room alone for anything) and eventually after about 6 months he was totally over quite time as well.

So I'd say, yes it early but that's the way some kids work.  I'm super jealous of those mama who have 4 year olds that are still taking a 2+ hour nap everyday.

anna7602

DD dropped her nap when I weaned her daytime, pre-nap nursing session at 23 months. I thought she might go back to napping when I weaned her entirely (2 months later), but she didn't and hasn't. Now if she does happen to take a nap, it really throws off our evening. She generally sleeps about 12-14 hours straight at night, but if she naps during the day, she won't go to sleep until much, much later and then only gets about 7-9 hours of sleep and wakes up in a terrible mood.

The downer is that even though I know see that our current rhythm is so much better, it took me months and months to finagle with it and make it perfect. For the first few months of her dropped nap, I couldn't quite find the sweet spot for her to go to bed for the night before she was overtired and wired. Good luck to you.