Napping: Toddler
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13 Month Old Won't Nap
Asked by E.R. from New York
on September 23, 2008
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I have a 13 month old son who, even as an infant, was not much of a napper. The first few months he would only nap in my arms. Then I was able to get him to sleep in...
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- Hi E., 13 months is too young not to need a nap, and please do not (as another poster suggested) put him in the crib with a bottle of milk or juice, for years mothers...
- This sounds exactly like my son. He's almost 8 months old and he doesn't like to nap either, but is a great sleeper at night. He goes down at 7 and then wakes up aroun...
- You poor thing- you must be exhausted!! First of all, congratulations on your pregnancy. And also, congratulations on your son being such a good night sleeper! 12 h...
14 Month Old Won't Nap
Asked by C.L. from San Francisco
on November 8, 2008
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I think my 14 month old is having trouble napping or maybe I'm not putting him down at the right time for a nap.
He wakes up at around 7am and since I've cut back...
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- i would pull the nap in as well. and the bedtime too by 30 or 60 mins. good luck!
- Different babies need different amounts of sleep. Our third child that just turned 2 gave up his morning nap a long time ago. I don't remember exactly, but I think i...
- Go with your gut. He sounds like he still needs two naps a day. It is so hard to figure out when he is going through so many changes developmentally anyway, so the n...
To Nap or Not to Nap
Asked by B.M. from Salt Lake City
on February 1, 2008
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My son is 2 1/2 and refuses to take a nap. Is he old enough to stop nap times? I struggle with that because if I let him skip his nap, he is Mr. Monster Man by about 6...
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- I am in the same boat with my 2 1/2 year old. She doesn't come out of her room she just will play by herself for over an hour and she usually just falls asleep eventu...
- i have a 2 1/2 year old boy (Alex) and a 17 mos boy (Colvin) also and Alex has done the same thing. he refused to take naps and was a monster by 5. I feel that at tha...
- My son is kinda going through the same thing. We just put a small TV with a DVD player built in into his room. When it what we call "quiet time" he picks a movie and h...
To Nap or Not to Nap
Asked by L.M. from San Antonio
on June 14, 2011
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my husband and I disagree on naps for our three and five year old. I prefer to stick it out so that they go to sleep at night faster than for them to nap and struggle ...
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- try the book "healthy sleep habits, happy child" by dr weissbluth. many kids are "done" with naps by the time they are 3, but i know plenty of kids who nap (or could...
- You know your children best and know when they need or don't need naps, especially since you are with them a majority of the time. The thing I've found about naps is ...
- we are right there with you.. my son is 4 (as of june 11) my daughter is 5 1/2 (december 20) I gave up on naps about 2 weeks ago.. they will fall asleep quickly for a...
To Nap or Not to Nap??
Asked by P.H. from Philadelphia
on August 22, 2008
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My daughter is two weeks shy of her 4th birthday. Sometimes she naps, sometimes she doesn't. Her summer camp/school does not allow time for nap, so there are times w...
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- P. I would say don't let her nap and get her to bed at 7:30. If she wakes up at close to the same time both ways I think that you need to go for the option that give...
- My daughter is 2 1/2 I don't do the nap. I keep her as busy as I possible can and then put her to bed at 6:45 she is out by 7 same with our 3 1/2 month old. Now...my h...
- Hi P., Put your daughter on the family schedule. Summer camp is almost over. She has to learn to adjust to others schedule, even though it may be difficult. ho...
No Nap!
Asked by M.D. from Chicago
on September 1, 2010
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My daughter just turned 2 at the end of July. She has started to stop napping. I put her in her crib and she talks and talks and then starts to cry. We are talking ...
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- I say keep her in her crib and don't go in there. My daughter will be 4 and if she doesn't get her nap, she's a terror by 6pm. I know lots of parents who say their k...
- Hate to say it but my 2 yr old stopped taking naps all together too around that age and still won't.....no matter what I do. I'm also expecting (8 mnths now) and am ex...
- I have yet to go through this myself, but I've had several friends who have had success enforcing a "quiet time". Let her know she doesn't have to go to sleep (how wo...
Why Won't She Nap for Me?
Asked by J.G. from Omaha
on January 29, 2011
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I went back to work a week ago...my boyfriend and I work opposite schedules so one of us is always home with our 2 girls. Our 2 1/2 month old daughter will not nap fo...
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- Maybe he doesnt notice her fussing and she falls back to sleep on her own?
- I think men have some sort of "nap magic". My husband and my daughter napped together often, or he got her to sleep so much easier than I did. For many months when he ...
- When my daugter was a baby she never took naps. If she did it was only for 20-30 min. That situation can be so hard! After about 9 months she finally started taking re...
AM Nap
Asked by K.C. from Washington DC
on February 9, 2012
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Our LO is 13 months old ... am naps are all over the place ... can be as long as 2.5 hours some days. I really feel like LO still NEEDS them, but wonder if it's time ...
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- My son, napped per his cues. I knew his cues. At that age of your child, my son napped, twice or 3 times a day and still slept fine at night with no problem. His nap...
- I run a home daycare. I eliminate morning naps about that age if possible, but some kids do still need a very brief little nap. I ahve a cut off of 10 am tho so they w...
- I did morning naps with my first until she was about 18 mos. old. She kind of phased out of them on her own.
To Nap, or Not to Nap
Asked by K.B. from Los Angeles
on December 8, 2010
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I have an almost 3 1/2 year old son and for the past few months nap time has become an issue. For awhile the pattern was a nap most days with a couple days where he la...
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- Your son is at the age where kids start to give up their naps. It happens to all kids. You are doing the right thing by letting him have "quiet time" even if he does...
- how many hours is he typically sleeping at night ? Eventually he is going to give up that nap and sleep more at night, like 7:30pm -7:30 am so would it work for you t...
- I used to hate those "No Nap Crabapple" days! lol You could always move your lunch a bit earlier (11:30) so he has more time to fall asleep. Really, as it is he only...
Nap or No Nap??
Asked by A.K. from Tulsa
on October 1, 2008
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I'm wondering at what age other moms have stopped making their kids take naps. I've always had a pretty strict nap schedule. As soon as lunch is over, the kids take ...
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- All I know is that my daughter stopped taking a nap the day she turned 1! It was not a choice by me, it was her. She no longer needed it (even though I still could hav...
- We're going thru this with my daughter, starting at 3 1/2 she stopped napping so much. Finally I told her she could stay in her bed and look at books if she wasn't sle...
- I have 3 kids and my "baby" just turned 5. All of them continued to take naps right up until kindergarten (and even sometimes when they got home from school!!). My y...
