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how much does your toddler sleep?
just curious. At 3 1/2 Jay still takes naps a few days out of the week. But on days he naps he goes to bed super late. On days he doesnt nap he goes to sleep between 8-8:30 and sleeps a full twelve hours usually.
What is a healthy amount of sleep for toddlers? Does your LO still nap, if not what age did they stop?
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Re: how much does your toddler sleep?
Max goes to bed at 7:30 and wakes up anywhere between 7-8:30.
At home, he naps for about 2 hours in the early afternoon, and sometimes (amazingly) DH can get him to go down for an hour or 2 in the morning ALSO!
He's a champion sleeper, but we think he owes us after his rough start! LOL
Natalie goes to bed at 8:30 and wakes at about 7:30 and takes a nap from 1:30 to 4 most days.
On the weekends she stays up a little later and sleeps a little later.
2 year old 12-13 hours a day, still needs a nap everyday
4 year old 10-12 hours a day, just stopped taking naps 2 months ago, still does cat naps in the car.
I'm in the same boat as you, if Emmy takes a nap she goes to bed late, but she does a decent nap every day. She sleeps about 10.5 hours at night with a 1.5-2 hour nap so total about 12 hours a day. She'll be 4 in November and I'm not going to try weaning her off of naps unless it becomes clear I should. Though by next summer if she's not done napping we'll stop her then because she'll be starting kindergarten that fall.
Ryan is a pretty good sleeper - he naps about half the time but I have to put a conscious effort into wearing his arse out. lol
Now that it's dark earlier, his bedtime routine starts between 7:00 and 7:30 with him in bed by 8:00. He sleep until about 7/8 the next morning. He'll sometimes nap from 2:30/3:00 - 4:30 or so but we still start bedtime around the same time. If daddy is doing bedtime, he doesn't actually get to sleep on those nights until about 9:00.
In bed at 7:30, asleep by 8/8:30 wakes 6:30 +/- 30 min. so on average gets about 10 hours/night. Still takes a 2-2.5 hour nap most days and I'm not looking forward to the end of naptime!