Anonymous wrote:For those of you with kids who kept a nap after age 3, how long would they sleep at night?

DS dropped his right after he turned 3 after months of refusing to sleep before 9 pm and waking between 6:30 and 7:00. When he stopped napping, he would sleep 7-7. DS is almost 3 and napping 2 hours because she's a mess without it but won't sleep until 10 pm sometimes. There must be a better way!

3.5yo is currently dropping the nap (naps at daycare and home sometimes but not every day). She sleeps 12 hours straight with no nap, with no bedtime issues (7:30-7:30 or 7:00-7:00). When she naps, bedtime is harder and she may go to bed at 7:30 but not fall asleep until 8:30, with lots of dumb "If you give a mouse a cookie" style requests. At home we are going to try to cap the nap at 1h.

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Anonymous wrote:First child, boy, at 10 months

Second child, girl, at 2.5

BS , no way a 10mo went all day without napping. Mine dropped it at 3.5 OP. Generally you stop the nap when bedtime starts getting to late because of it.

He also climbed out of his crib at 10 months, there's a correlation. Sometimes he would fall asleep while playing on the floor but in general he stayed awake all day. Lots of energy.

I couldn't care less whether you believe it.

Anonymous wrote:For those of you with kids who kept a nap after age 3, how long would they sleep at night?

DS dropped his right after he turned 3 after months of refusing to sleep before 9 pm and waking between 6:30 and 7:00. When he stopped napping, he would sleep 7-7. DS is almost 3 and napping 2 hours because she's a mess without it but won't sleep until 10 pm sometimes. There must be a better way!

A 3 yo should be getting 10-13 hours sleep total per 24 hours. So it’s annoying if they do the 2 hr nap and then sleep only 8 or 9 hrs, but it’s normal. Only thing you can try is waking them earlier. If they are up an hour earlier they should fall asleep an hour earlier to compensate but you’d have to shift gradually.

For those of you with kids who kept a nap after age 3, how long would they sleep at night?

DS dropped his right after he turned 3 after months of refusing to sleep before 9 pm and waking between 6:30 and 7:00. When he stopped napping, he would sleep 7-7. DS is almost 3 and napping 2 hours because she's a mess without it but won't sleep until 10 pm sometimes. There must be a better way!

By 3 we switched to “quiet time” in crib vs. nap but she’d still sleep most days. A few months later she was gradually napping less and less and we gave her the option of coming down to watch tv instead. This is weekends. She still naps at daycare and it keeps her up later on weeknights.

First, right before turning 4. Second is almost 3.5 and still napping.