18mth old naps

Ben usually sleeps for 1-1.5hrs which really isn't long enough but I have decided that the energy that would be required to get him back to sleep isn't worth it. I just bring bedtime forward. We head into the bedroom anytime from 6.30-7pm and he is asleep by 7.30 at the latest.
Until she can last longer I would just suggest putting her to bed early

My dd at that age would have about 1.5 hrs but sometimes only 1 hr.

Id be giving her dinner earlier and putting her to bed at 630pm. And see how that goes. If her naps start getting longer again stretch out bed time again

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I found that Jae was sleeping less during the day too, about an hour (some days I'd be lucky to get 10 mins sleeping in the car on the way home then that was it til after dinner!), and she'd go down anywhere from 11am onwards... She's just gone into a 'big bed' this last week and amazingly is back to having sleeps of 2 hours + I think it may have been where the room was positioned, her old room got ALL the afternoon sun, so by 2pmish was starting to get stuffy, whereas her current bedroom gets sun in the mornings and has moved on by lunchtime, leaving it a little cooler... I've also pushed her sleeps out as much as I can so she doesnt go to bed until after lunch now. I'm really hoping she keeps it up cos it would be SO nice to have a 2 hour break in the afternoon, assuming bubs cooperates too lol!

I would move to afternoon nap at 1-1:30pm. That is what we have done. My 2 and 3 yos still both have naps in the afternoon and then go to bed at 7-7:30 in the evening. In the afternoon I don't get them up till 3:30 usually so they are in their rooms for 2 hours though they don't have to sleep 2 hours...

Keep trying things out till you find what works for her.

If it makes you feel any better, my 19 month old does not have a day sleep at all!! and has not done for about a month (occsaional days excepted). She does get grumpy around 5 but lots of drinks and fruit and snacks and in bed by 7 at the VERY latest - she sleeps till 8 most mornings.

However, before she dropped the sleep she was having an hour - hour and half but only after lunch, then she went to bed a little later - 8 at night.

hiya I would also recommend moving the nap to be 1230 - 1pm ish. DD will sleep for about 2 hours once i did this however I will always wake DD up by 3pm and she will go to bed again between 7 and 730pm

You sooo need some me time and they also need some quiet time too. Good luck

My two here have been doing this for about 6 month or so.

My boy will go to bed with his bottle at 11.30am & be out like a light for 3 hours.

My CC goes to bed basically at the same time with a bottle but won't go to sleep for an hour & I don't get her up until he gets up. She stays in her cot quietly so is having chill out time. So I think she's getting 1 1/2 hours sleep. I do know if I get her up too early then she's grumpy in the arvo.

A rest is as good as a sleep so maybe a restful period might help or does she scream the house down in her cot?

To train my CC to sleep/stay in her cot, I usually go into her room about half hour after bed & say it's sleep time. Same if I heard her after 45mins, I'd go back & say it's not get up time it's still sleep time. 90% of the time she went back to sleep. Obviously I get her up if she's loud as then she definitely is not in sleep mode.