When to drop day time sleep.

gabriel was at least two i think. and even now at almost three he has been having a nap (cause he is sick). nap times can be very tricky, they get to that stage where they et really grumpy later on when it is too late for a nap and if they sleep too late they are up half the night. i think for a while we were just letting gabriel stay up later and have a nap in the day.

it may be another faze - they go thru a few at this age.

toby is 15 mths old now and now way would i want him to drop his only day sleep - he is asleep now and i am trying to get him to go to sleep without a feed first.

Harry is three and a half and still has a sleep. Sometimes it is for an hour or in some cases it can be up to three hours. It is all part of the routine and we have no problem with getting him to have a sleep. He goes to creche and it is part of his routine there so that all helps. He usually goes to his bed at 12.30pm, we read a book and then it is sleep time

yeah busymum that is what I am hoping for too. Might try the book thing Alan like's book's ta for that.

Paris still has a sleep - at daycare it is usuallyno more than an hour - (cos fair enough it's noisy, other kids coming and going in the room next door, and waking and leaving the sleep room too) but at home, she would happily sleep for 3 or 4 hours IF WE LET HER. (that being said, she loves her sleep and gets tired anyway cos of her heart thingie) We started having the same problem with her about this age, so set a limit, doesn't matter what time they get to sleep, even if they have been monkeying around, we wake them. It can take a bit, but they end up getting into a good routine. we have a rule that unless it's extreme special cicumstances (ie, we are going out that night so the extra sleep will do em good) both our girls are woken from their sleeps at 3.30-ish, quarter to 4 at the latest.. meaning they don't oversleep. and mostly, they wake themselves just around 3pm these days.. can tell if paris is having a tired day cos she will just sleep till iwake her, and sometimes i do leave it a bit longer if i feel she needs it, but she always sleeps at night anyway.

so don't feel you have to drop his sleep - it's good to still have a sleep or rest period each day, he is only little and needs it - and really - i bet you need that time too. just adjust things a bit and see how it goes.

yeah we get Paris home some days and she has decided not to go to sleep at daycare, just lie there awake till they get her out to go play, and by the time she get's home that night, she is a real toad, she gets all moody like a hormonal teenage girl and is HARD to handle. I think she takes after me - I need my sleep otherwise i am a nasty piece of work lol..

grr, tried to have a big day sleep today since i have overnight shift tonight and for the next couple of nights and was trying to programme my body into sleeping during the day.. so mike turns up at lunchtime and wakes me up. Fair enough though, he brought me some pizza, so he's forgiven, i just told him he better not do that tomorrow.

Ella has always been an on again, off again sleeper. She will be great for weeks and then all of a sudden won't sleep for a few days, I think it's teething related. She will wake in the night on the days she doesn't sleep too. She didn't sleep yesterday or today and I'm going a bit crazy.. and every time she does this I think "is this the end???" but she will have a big sleep a few days later to catch up. At the moment I'm making her (haha) watch a dvd for about 40 mins so I can have a break. If I put her in her room she won't stay there and she thinks I'm punishing her..

If it works, I say go for it! My mum is the biggest anti-dummy crusader ever, but I have to admit that I have bought one each for the twins *just in case* and will use them if I need to!

it is funny how you change your mind with thing's once we have the babies.

my 2.5 year old is really active and she still has a sleep in the morning. around when i was due to have kayla and for a few weeks after she went through a stage where she went a few days without a sleep and the odd day where she would have one. but she is back to being really tired, grizzly and grumpy and very much in need of a sleep again. and her sleeps can sometimes be 3 hours but mostly between 1-2 hours. and she goes to bed late now too, its seems to be a vicious cycle though, if she has a sleep she wont go to bed till late abnd if she doesnt she gets soooooooo grumpy and gets to bed earlier, but i prefer her having a sleep and going to bed later becuase otherwise there is trouble!!!