What time does your 2.5 year old go to bed?

sbevmc09 · November 2012

And are they still napping?

I think DS is maybe working on giving up his nap and I'm thinking about making bedtime a little earlier to compensate. He usually goes to bed at 8.30pm. Days he doesn't nap we've been pushing it back to 8pm. He also used to sleep later in the mornings than he is currently though (in addition to taking a nap as well, *sigh*) so I'm thinking about potentially pushing it even earlier. Thoughts?

memali26 · November 2012

When she's not trying to recover from daylight savings time, DD1 goes to bed around 7:30/7:45 and sleeps until 6:45/7ish in the morning. She naps from 12:30/1ish to about 3ish. I refuse to let her give up her nap yet, because days she doesn't nap the afternoon and evening are horrible around here.

sbevmc09 · November 2012

memali26:
When she's not trying to recover from daylight savings time, DD1 goes to bed around 7:30/7:45 and sleeps until 6:45/7ish in the morning. She naps from 12:30/1ish to about 3ish. I refuse to let her give up her nap yet, because days she doesn't nap the afternoon and evening are horrible around here.

Ugh, same here. I don't know what to do about it! Probably half the week he naps without issue, the other half he seems like he needs it, but refuses it completely, but... I don't want to give it up completely and obviously I don't know which days he'll sleep and which he won't so I still try everyday. Incredibly frustrating! I'm thinking about trying to figure out a way to get him to cooperate with "quiet time" at the very least. I have no idea how I'll do this, of course.

memali26 · November 2012

sbevmc09:
memali26:
When she's not trying to recover from daylight savings time, DD1 goes to bed around 7:30/7:45 and sleeps until 6:45/7ish in the morning. She naps from 12:30/1ish to about 3ish. I refuse to let her give up her nap yet, because days she doesn't nap the afternoon and evening are horrible around here.
Ugh, same here. I don't know what to do about it! Probably half the week he naps without issue, the other half he seems like he needs it, but refuses it completely, but... I don't want to give it up completely and obviously I don't know which days he'll sleep and which he won't so I still try everyday. Incredibly frustrating! I'm thinking about trying to figure out a way to get him to cooperate with "quiet time" at the very least. I have no idea how I'll do this, of course.

We are having more and more days where she takes forever to fall asleep (as in, I put her down at 1 and she falls asleep at 2:30...), but she will at least stay in bed quietly and not get up. I've been trying to come up with ways to wear her out in the morning so she's ready to crash after lunch, but with the cold weather it's getting harder!

Cherryblossoms07 · November 2012

DD goes to bed at 8, but some days she falls to sleep earlier. She stopped napping after we moved. We used to go to the gym where she had a lot of space and would run around and play with her friends, here we don't have anything like that for her to wear herself out so she refuses to nap. Crying

honeybee111 · November 2012

DD goes to bed at 8 and she's up at 7(unless it's daylight savings time). She still naps really well from 1-3.

mbgreenwalt · November 2012

DD goes down between 8:30-9p and sleeps until 7a. She takes a nap M-W, but won't nap for my MIL on Th and F and she won't nap at home.

saturdaynightdoubletree · November 2012

DD goes to bed 7:30 or 8pm, up around 7am. Most days she naps an hour to an hour and a half when she's at daycare, hit or miss at home the other four days of the week.
DS still sleeps 7pm to 7 or 8am with an hour to two hour nap every day.

Angela814 · November 2012

DD2 sleeps 9pm7am and takes a 2 hour nap. I don't think she's ready to sleep long enough at night to give up her nap.

DD1 stopped napping completely at 5 years and started sleeping 11 hours at night then. At 4 years she would nap at daycare but not on weekends. She pretty much always slept 10 hours at night until she stopped napping.

NCMichelle · November 2012

DD gave up napping as soon as she turned 2. It SUCKS! I tried everything. We've now settled on quiet time in her room for 2 hours... it's been working. Her bedtime is 7:00 and she's usually out by 7:30. She wakes up between 7:30 and 8:00.

DS still takes a 2 1/2 - 3 hour nap. His bedtime is 6:45 and he wakes up around 7:00.

D.Smith · November 2012

DD takes a nap at 1:00 for 2 hours then she goes to bed at 9:00

islelily · November 2012

DS goes to bed at 8:30-9:30 every night (we start bedtime around 8) and he gets up between 8-9am. He naps anywhere from 12:30-1 to 3:30-4.

stdldb29 · November 2012

7pm. She also takes a 2 hour nap during the day. DS is 4, he goes to bed at 7pm as well, but he only takes a 45 minute nap or so at school (3 hour naps for him on the weekend)

kegallagh · November 2012

DS isn't quite 2.5 yet, but he naps about 2 hours every afternoon. Nap is usually 12-2ish and then he sleeps from about 6:45pm-6am.

marleyc · November 2012

DD1 typically goes to bed around 9 pm. On the weekends, she always takes a nap at home, but during the week at daycare, it's been hit or miss. When she doesn't get her nap she's a nightmare by 6 pm. Tonight was one of those nights . . .

MMMiller · November 2012

I feel kind of fortunate, my ds goes down at 6:30 and when he can sleep in he sleeps until 7ish. He also takes a two hour nap...but to be fair I have to wake him during the week so that we are out of the house by 6:45 a.m. so he needs all the sleep he can get.

nicari_13 · November 2012

DD1 goes to bed at 8 and sleeps until 9-9:30. She stopped napping at 18 months. I guess she sleeps enough at night she doesn't need the rest in the afternoon. I miss naps lol.

kcisthebombdotcom · November 2012

Some days he naps. The days he does he tends to go to bed later--around 830. The days he doesn't he usually crashes by 7pm. Wakes up around 630-7am regardless.

I don't force naps (or try to make them go away completely) because some days are busier/more active than others,

superaunt · November 2012

she has to wake at 5:30 Mon-Fri, so she's in bed by 7:30 Sun-Thurs. Fri/Sat nights she's usually up an hour or so later. she generally does still take a 2 hour nap.

Ardmhs83 · November 2012

My son goes to bed around 8ish. We go upstairs at 8, but by the time we read and rock him to sleep it may be 8:20-8:30 before he is alseep. He normally sleeps until 6-6:30, but the time change is messing with him right now.

He does nap...every afternoon from like 1-3.

If your LO doesn't seem to want to nap anymore...I would try an earlier bedtime just to see what happens. What will it hurt?

Good luck!

MrsWindyCity · November 2012

He's in bed around 7:45 and usually takes 20-30 minutes to fall asleep (sometimes longer). He wakes around 6-6:30 and takes about a 1.5 hour nap.

I'm pretty sure this will all go to hell when we move him to a bed in the next few weeks, though.

mexicolombiana · November 2012

D.Smith:
DD takes a nap at 1:00 for 2 hours then she goes to bed at 9:00

This is exactly our toddler.

Alex17 · November 2012

Bed time 7:30pm. Wake up 7ish

nap usually from 1-3pm.

superned · November 2012

DD still naps for anywhere from 1.5 - 3 hours. Bedtime is around 8:00 on a normal night. On the rare occasion that she skips a nap, or if she's not feeling well or just generally cranky, bedtime can be as early as 6:30.

etude de la vie · November 2012

Both nap from 1-3. I hear DD fall asleep sometimes as late as 2 but I wake her up when her brother wakes up

they both go to bed between 8-8:15 but I hear her up until almost 9.

sucredee · November 2012

DD is usually in bed by 745pm and sleeps until 6-630 most days. I never let her sleep past 645-7 because then for sure she won't nap. As it is she's been skipping naps here and there (which sucks because it is usually on days when I plan on doing something during that time, usually that is cooking dinner for the night).

she naps for about 1-1.5 hours when she does nap, although at daycare she has had a few days where she won't fall asleep until 1 and I pick her up at 115-130. I generally don't let her sleep for more than 1.5 hours unless she is feeling sick. I would like to have her in bed by 7 but with two teenagers at home (nieces that live with us) and their schedule it is hard to get dinner on the table before 630 most nights and family dinners are important to us. Lately she has been falling asleep pretty quickly once she is in bed. Sometimes she lies in her crib singing for a good 30 minutes before finally crashing.