Nap Help for 2 Year Old

Its just a nap tweak... and its only been 1 week since she was sick.
Just keep to your usual routine for naps... and times.

But before her nap... let her wind-down first... PRIOR to her actual nap time. Just make everything quiet... calm... dark.... boring.
Verbally cue her.... that nap is 'soon'... which can even be half hour later after you verbally 'cue' her. Then get ready... without 'rushing'... turn things off etc. Tell her YOU are going to nap too. Then go about your routine PRE-nap. As usual.
That's what I do. My son is 4 now, but he still naps everyday, in the afternoon. It is auto-pilot without any battle about it.

And yes, a tired kid, will NOT like being woken up... and YES they get real crabby if woken up. Because, they were sleeping... deeply. I am like that too. No one likes being woken up.

For times my son naps late... in the afternoon, I NEVER wake him from his naps. He naps 2-3 hours. And I LET him have his full nap... even if that means he wakes from his nap at 6:00pm. And he will still go to bed fine, at his usual bedtime. No problem.

all the best,
Susan

my 3 and 4 yr old girls sleep the same, 7pm to 7am. i just had to change up their nap also. they eat lunch at 11 or 11:30 and used to go to bed right after and sleep for about 2 hrs.

the last couple of days they are too rowdy and don't want to sleep, so i've been letting them hang out for a bit and play after lunch before announcing nap time and then letting them get ready and go to nap around 1. today it worked wonderfully and they slept for 2 hrs.

i don't know if you let her play after lunch before nap, but maybe she just needs a little more wearing out before she goes down for nap?? just an idea. it can be so tough when they change things up (especially when we're used to having a certain amount of time to get our things done! lol.), but hopefully she's just mixed up since being sick and will fall back into routine again soon!
good luck!

Could she be giving up her nap? My daughter stopped napping around 2.5 -- I thought it was early, but it took care of the problems we had getting her to go to bed at night. We discovered if she napped in the afternoon she just wouldn't go to bed at a reasonable hour. If she didn't nap she went to bed no problem. It was a transition -- at first she needed to go to bed really early -- by 6 p.m. or so. Now she's 3 and goes to bed between 7 and 8.

Maybe you could prepare her for the earlier nap rather than letting her get tired and take the nap that late....if you set up a nap routine that is similar to her bedtime routine and schedule it earlier maybe that will help......but I recommend you check out these sleeping tips, they should spark some ideas as how to get her to sleep better:

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