Please tell me about your non napping two year olds

[Mrs Doddy]

It's been two weeks and its killing me !!! I try to tire her out which works BUT she still won't sleep !!! Sooo I keep trying and if after half an hour no luck we get up and watch a film

It's ok if we are in the car as she sleeps ( tho I don't get a break coz I'm driving - but that's ok if she's happy rather than moaning)

She's in bed at 7 so it's not like I can bring bedtime forward

I know that there's not much I can do - I'm knackered !!!

Any survival tips lol

 

[chick78]

I feel your pain! my DD was 2 in August & she has just started to refuse naps every other day, i still try & put her down but when i peep a look in her room more often than not she is bouncing in her cot & says im not tired(which is a shame as im often knackered)

I do the same as you give her half an hour then get her up & chill out of a little while.
(she has just asked to go into a big girls bed & someone said this might help?!? i'll give anything a go)

 

[Mrs Doddy]

The big girls bed was what stopped the naps here lol !!!

 

[chick78]

"Quick get them sides back on" Sorry just shouting up to the hubby, lol
Bugger was keeping everything crossed that would be the solution!

 

[Mrs Doddy]

They are all different ! You might be lucky lol

 

[gingajewel]

Since Megan was 9 months she has gone to nursery two full days a week but i changed jobs when she was two so now she goes too 4 morning sessions a week and i pick her up at one which is what time she used to nap.

So she hasnt napped since she was two. I remember finding the first few weeks really hard - its so hard when your used to having that "you" time to catch up on housework/tv programmes/peace and quiet but to be honest you get used to it! It means that i dont have to rush home at the weekends for her to have a nap in her bed, or if we are going somewhere in the week i dont have to work it around her nap!

Buuuut the big down side is she is often really tired and grumpy come six on an evening and its such a rush getting her to bed any earlier than seven so she is normally really moody lol! And by friday, because she has to get up at 6.30 in the week she can barely keep her eyes open all day! I have learnt to just go with the flow and if we are out and about or in the car and she drops to sleep then great!

It does get easier......................!!

 

[ExpectingK]

My DD gave up her nap at 18 months. She's almost 21 months and it's getting easier. I try and get her in bed 30 minutes earlier, at least, than her old bedtime. She's got her first cold since dropping the nap and I expected her to need one today but nope! She's just been more cuddly.

 

[Ice Cold Cube]

Alex stopped napping a few weeks ago too, and it was pretty hellish for the first while but the past few days have been much better.

We give him 'rest time' from about 3 til 4 if we are at home, and that involves chilling with his blanket, and sometimes dummy, watching some quiet telly. It helps him to wind down and gets him to sit still in one place! He's still happy to sit in his reclining high chair, so we put him in that and dim the lights a bit. He enjoys it and it does help to refresh him. Gives us a break too. Between 4 and 5 he plays with his toys and then it's dinner time.

He is generally tired after his dinner and a few weeks ago was literally begging to go 'straight to bed', but he seems to be coping better now and his mood later in the day has been much brighter of late. We don't take him anywhere that would keep him out late though - for example we had to say no to the family outing to see the local fireworks show on bonfire night. It would have been too much for him - he would have been so tired after it all!

When he napped he would go to bed at 8, now he's in bed for 7 and, touch wood, has been sleeping through til about 7am (which is a big bonus for us as previous to all this he would wake several times at night).

Hope this helps. It does get better.

Laura x

PS Some days Alex does still napy at nursery if he's totally shattered. They just follow his cues and get a mat out for him if he lies down and looks really sleepy.

 

[Mrs Doddy]

Glad to here it does get easier!!

 

[Kelz22]

My LO stopped having naps when he just turned 2.Its hard but you just get used to it.

 

[pinkandfluffy]

We are at the on and off stage - no nap days he's in bed for 630 but is hell from 2/3 o clock. I try to do reading, DVDs, quiet sitting stuff to get him to relax at least. Some days he still naps, then bedtime is more like 8/830 and he will take about an hour to fall asleep.

I hate this limbo )

 

[jenny82]

Yea I think just get used to it

My LO stopped napping just before 2, the week the new baby turned up. THAT was fun he does nap in the car sometimes and if he is unwell, he will go to bed but generally the nap days are over. If I notice him getting a bit tired, we watch tv for a bit or read. I don't really mind though as it means he goes to bed at 7; if he still napped, bedtimes would be much later so it suits me

 

[mumof1+1]

My son has had to stop having naps. I f i let him have one he'll sleep for about 45 mins to an hour and then he won't want to go to bed until about 8.15 and messes about in and out of bed for another hour and sometimes a bit longer....

If he doesn't nap, he tends to go to bed about 7.30 and usually nods off straight away.

He still doesn't sleep through though but i think he is teething and he has a cold too...

Hoping once the teeth are through he'll be better. I'm also thinking about changing the cot bed to a toddler bed... At the moment he has one side off and replaced with a bed rail.

 

[louandivy]

Ah I love that ivy has stopped napping, now I don't have to plan my day around it and she is out like a light between 6.30 and 7 every night!

 

[moomoo]

Reggie stopped at 18 months, it was great to not have to plan the day around his sleeps, but hell when I had a 6 week old that woke for feeds through the night so needed the rest.

It was better because he would wake from his nap in a state and be inconsolable for an hour afterwards!

He still gets tired now after lunch, but we try an watch a film or do some activities that are quiet time