Isaac has stopped napping.
Yes.
That is the sound of my heart breaking and my head exploding and the utter chaos of not having a 2 hour window for Amy and I.
He’s SIXTEEN months old. He is much too young to be dropping his nap.
At least, that’s what I keep telling him.
So, Isaac isn’t napping, despite my insistence that he at least lay down. Amy is waking around midnight, 1am and asking for apples (no) water (maybe) the potty (again? seriously) cuddles (oh god, I’m trying to sleep) an apple pleeeease (no!).
If I’m lucky she goes back to sleep around 2am, after bugging me on and off for a couple of hours.
Sleep. We’re not getting very much of it.
So my dear Internets, when did your child stop napping? Amy stopped at about 21, 22 months and I was not ready for that.
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I also had a mini rant on my food blog, about gluten amongst other things.
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Your brother didn’t sleep of a daytime at all. sometimes he would sleep for 40 minutes if I was really really lucky.
Princess probably really gave up on regular naps around 16-18 months. She will e 4 in September and will have a nap every now and again, mostly if we go and cuddle together, on rare occasions she weill ask to sleep. Never a good sleeper, I didn’t mourn the loss of the nap. Usually meant I could put her down earlier at night
On this (not so) bitterly cold Sunday night, I’m very well, thanks for asking. I’m sitting by my heater, eating canned peaches.
Three of mine gave up their naps fairly early, around 15-18 months, but would happily lie down for quiet time, so that was okay. The fourth child (number two baby, number one son) didn’t nap hardly at all from about 3 months. He’d be happily playing on the floor or in his cot all day, then sleeping all night from 6pm till 6am.
Mine is still napping (Oh no! I said it on a blog, now she’ll stop for sure!) She’s 26 months. It takes quite a bit of coaxing to get her to nap. But left to her own devices she would then nap for 3 hours and then wake in the wee hours. I’m torn, on the one hand, sleep is good, and when I cut her nap down to 1.5-2 hours she sleeps better (and has an earlier bedtime) but those hours during the day (sometimes up to 3.5) are so precious.
Oh that is sooo not cool. My son is 2 and a half and will do an hour at childcare and two to three at home… I know that doesn’t make you feel better though. Keep putting down tho, and pray it’s a phase!
Annie stopped napping around 12 months old, right around the time I was pregnant with Heidi. For a while she would play quietly but then she started smearing poo when I left her alone in the bedroom and that started months of smearing whenever she got the chance. ::ugh::
Heidi never slept consistently so I grabbed every nap I could with both hands.
I don’t remember when Stacey stopped napping (22 years ago!!), but I do remember wishing she hadn’t stopped! It’s freezing here too today, although the sun is out! Making mac ‘n cheese for lunch – kind of comfort!
Ouchies… I remember those days well.
Zack stopped napping at about 2 and a half, and Max will still nap now, and he’s 2yrs 8 months, so I’m no help I’m afraid! >_<
My son stopped his daytime naps at 3yrs 4mnths, two months after his baby sister was born. Said baby sister is now 25mnths and still going, but I think she’s getting close to giving up.
Ouch, it makes me feel a bit better. The big girl dropped hers after much struggle at around 2 years, she probably would have done it earlier but I fought really hard. I seriously shouldn’t have. I thought the little one was going to drop hers beginning of the year, but it’s still hanging in 3 or 4 days a week. Except she’s moved it to the time her sister is at pre-school (good) and will only go 20 minutes or so then cry for me to hold her. So I spend 20 minutes going to the toilet and getting myself some lunch ready and sit at my computer until we need to get the big girl.
The princess stopped officially napping at about 2 1/2. But that’s also when her little brother came along, and I’d say about 1/2 the time, I could get her to nap with him (and me!) Now that she’s in preschool/daycare, they nap for about an hour in the afternoon, and she says she usually does sleep then. She definitely goes to bed later at night, though.
The boy is 2 now, still definitely needs a nap, and is usually ready for it when it’s naptime. He’ll nap for anywhere from 1-3 hours, depending on the day.
My kids “lose” toys (as in, they go up on a shelf in a trash bag in my closet) every time they come out of their room at night, after the first time (which is usually for the bathroom.) That nipped that habit in the bud really quickly, and it’s maybe once or twice a month that we have an issue.
Photoblog? What Photoblog? How did I miss that? Off to have a squiz at that, I’m willing to bet that it’s very, very good.
Sleeps during the day. I don’t think you want to know, sorry.
Connor has almost stopped napping… but he’s the one who gets up in the night too… drives me nuts… but Amy sounds exhausting – those chats in the middle of the night would drive me batty
Hi there! Well not too bad, swimming in the lake and enjoying a late afternoon picnic yesterday, temperatures rose up to 40°C, picture that!
Naps: so so very important to our sanity aren’t they? My twins are 27 months old and their sleeping patterns have been changing lately, mostly going to bed later and getting up later too, what with the summer light we are having and the tempting summer evening activities like picnic, but I’m trying to get them back on track because, even though it didn’t prevent lynn from going for a midday 2 hour nap, Max started to skip his, though he’s ok with staying about an hour in his bed chatting (until he gets bored, gets too loud and risks waking up his sister in the next door bedroom) Lynn used to be the one who had sleep problem as a tiny wee baby, and had to rock, lullaby and cuddle to no effect, now she is a very peaceful sleeper, whereas maxime who never had a sleep problem now can talk to himself til 10-11pm before he eventually falls asleep. Kids…
But do not despair, it may come back. keep going through the nap ritual, try to involve him in tiring activities in the morning and why not some warm milk before napping.
Bon courage!
You know, I can’t remember. Terrible I know, as Daniel is only 5. Both my kids were good nappers and napped well past the age of 3, probably up until about 4. I’m grateful. I’m sorry for you. I feel your pain. There are few things worse than lack of sleep (both yours and theirs).
Sweltering up and around on this end of the planet, thank you very much.
My eldest started dropping one or two naps a week at about 16 months. By the time her sister was born (she was 21 months), she was napping every second day or so. By 2, one or two naps a week was standard. By 2 years 3 months, no naps unless she was sick.
Secondborn napped every day for 2+ hours until about 22-23 months, then started dropping one or two a week. Around 2 1/2 she stopped napping regularly but would still have one if sick, had a busy week, a bit overwrought etc (she’d often go in on a Thursday afternoon when her big sister was at kinder, for instance – appreciated the quiet house after a manic week!) By 3 the nap was totes gone.
Thirdborn, at 15 months, is still solid every day for 1.5-2.5 hs (length varies depending on time of nap onset). I can’t see her ditching it anytime soon.
None of you have given me any faith that he’s suddenly going to start napping again. However, I know exactly who to complain to when we’re a nap-less household!
I gave up on trying to get M to sleep in the day not long after he turned on… it was taking more than an hour of fighting to get him to have not even 30 minutes of sleep. I was scared at the prospect of no nap but actually it was the best thing ever… meant he finally started sleeping well at night… and by well I mean going from waking every hour or so to sleeping 14 hours straight – and he still would sleep that long if I didn’t have to wake him most mornings.
Both of mine stopped napping well before their second birthdays. With the elder it did bring the occasional better night (he was my non-sleeper) and with the younger it heralded 11-12 hour nights yippee! Personally I’d trade the nap for a good night’s sleep any day but it would appear that you aren’t getting that in exchange ;-(
Persevere with putting Isaac down for a nap, it may just be a phase – or more teeth…… Fresh air in the morning followed by a good lunch and warm milk may help. Have you tried giving him Milo/Horlicks/Ovaltine before bed, might help Amy too at night (if they are gluten free which I haven’t checked).
eight months old. That is when Boo stopped napping.
And he didn’t particularly like the nighttime napping thing either.
Almost 12 years later it is the same.
It kinda sucks. A Lot.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not the nap!!!
That’s terrible.
Ruby stopped having her afternoon sleep at 3, just after Thomas arrived & just when I needed her to have a nap more than ever. But I was lucky that she napped for that long, so I didn’t fight it.
She still has one on Thursdays – just because I have had enough and am over it by Thursday.
ooh don’t let him tell Emily about the non-napping. she has just started napping again at 12 months, but now wont go to bed at night. grrrr.
Oh mah holy hell, that was so long ago. Shortman was in daycare at 10 months, so even if he wasn’t “sleeping” – he couldn’t wake the others and so had to lay down. I’m sure all of the breathing made him fall asleep anyway.
Things will get better. {{hugs}}
Both mine kept the nap for a while but purely cos they were both at school and so it was compulsory for them to sleep
But Kiara did drop hers over the weekend sooner than Cameron – think she was around 2 – he was nearly 3
What I can sympathise with though is the lack of nightime sleep. Kiara is 6 and still wakes 3/4 times some nights! Its exhausting.
Lilly who is now 5 stopped napping during the day almost ever day at 9 months old!!
But she would sleep all through the nights and sleep in extra long in the mornings, only waking for a bottle or her dummy.
I got lucky.
Here’s hoping you manage to get some rest.
i hope Issac starts to nap again..
Maddi stopped napping early too Cai still laps so i still have some baby in him..
I am commenting backwards again. sorry. First child napped until 2 years. second a boy – gave up napping when about a year. How I missed this post – was just about to go to bed as have to get up soon and now I need to go look at the other posts I missed. Wish you wouldn’t write such good blogs I may get more naps in myself if they weren’t so good.
Oh, God. I really, really feel for you.
I am SO BAD when sleep deprived. You’d think I’d be used to it (especially after Max), but I most certainly am NOT. If I get 5 hours in a row, I can cope, but if woken in the middle of the night, I am a wreck the next day. I have no idea how y’all are functioning.
I hope the whole ‘apple at 1 AM’ thing is just temporary…. as for the nap: AAARRRGGHHH!!
Yesterday we were a napless household….It was quite a shock as my 27 month old normally has a big 2.5hour nap most days….I too am scared he is giving up his day naps. They are very valuable to me especially if I can get my 6 month old to sleep at the same time…Did not happen yesterday!
I have to say, like Zoey @ Good Goog, I fear that now I have commented on my sons naps he will give them up! Wouldn’t you know the second I started typing this comment my 6 month old woke up….AAAH!
I often feel like my two are tag teaming at interrupting my sleep. I really hope your little boy was just having an “off “day and returns to napping soon
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