https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:19:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1491060 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:51:06 +0000 sandy 1491060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: I tried and not only does it make her so mad when we wake her up but ends up taking awhile to fall asleep anyway! I tried for a few months and even a short nap causes her to take a long time to fall asleep that night. So I ended up just letting her nap the full 3 hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490682 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:15:25 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1490682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's interesting that you mentioned lack of stimulation because that may be the reason why DD has been a poor sleeper. But it's the opposite for us. I don't want to jinx myself, but if she continues to nap at daycare, then it's most definitely it.</p> <p>She just started daycare and they have a routine which includes playing outside for about 1.5hrs each day. DH and I are pinching ourselves because it did not take long for her to nap there ... outside (where she's not used to) and in a pram (also not used to) without anyone pushing it (whoa). I'm still in shock. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490648 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:46:38 +0000 Sammyfab 1490648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He just turned 2 and thankfully he is a great sleeper and has been this way since 6-ish months. We have had zero regressions...we just never experienced the super sleepy newborn phase, which was maybe a blessing in retrospect?</p> <p>Lately he has been a wild and sneaky little procrastinator at bedtime but he is still in bed by 7:30 and out well before 8pm. He is content to stay in bed until we get him and he usually wakes up between 7-7:30. He is not a super long napper though (1.5-2hrs) and I am very conscientious of how too much napping and not enough wake time during the day can affect his night sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490640 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:38:39 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1490640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: you could try limiting her naps to just an hour by waking her up. that might shift her overall sleep and move her bedtime earlier but not too early. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490628 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:22:03 +0000 BananaPancakes 1490628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man, we're at 23 months and you're all making me nervous. He's still in his crib and sleeps 11-12 hrs with no bedtime or naptime fussing. He has learned to crawl out, though, so we've had to get a little tough about making sure he stays in bed if he's feeling ambitious. I'm terrified to move him to a twin bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490624 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:17:02 +0000 Rubies 1490624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>R is 2.5 years old and is a great sleeper and I'm so grateful...It's my only daily guarantee with her. She goes to bed at 6:30pm and wakes up at 6:30am with one nap at daycare from 12:45-2:45pm.</p> <p>When she goes to bed, she might talk to herself for up to 30 minutes but she eventually just falls asleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490555 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:00:19 +0000 lamariniere 1490555@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When my son was 2, he was an excellent sleeper and a good napper too. It took a long time to get to that though, and we certainly battled with sleep the entire first year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490532 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:06:31 +0000 sandy 1490532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Overall my 2 year old is a good sleeper but I think we are getting close to approaching a potentially tough time where we may cut out naps but I'm not sure. Our days go one of two ways</p> <p>-She naps from 2:30-5:30. Dinner is at 6:15 and bath time is at 7:30. Pjs, bedtime stories, potty and she's in bed by 8:00/8:15. Because she napped she'll talk and sing and roll around her toddle bed for at least an hour but sometimes close to 2 hours. She'll usually ask to use the potty (we just hear her on the monitor saying potty). But at least she stays in bed the entire time and she just eventually falls asleep and wakes up around 7:30 (sometimes 8:30 with the time change)</p> <p>-She doesn't nap and just talks/sings and rolls around her bed from 2:30 to 4:30. I always leave her for 2 hours. Thankfully she stays in her toddler bed the entire time. I go get her at 4:30 and dinner is an hour earlier at 5:30. Bath time at 6:30. Pjs, bedtime stories, potty and she's in bed by 7:00. She passes out ASAP. These days are tough bc DH hardly sees her and bc dinner is so early she eats alone and DH and I eat after she's in bed. BUT we also secretly love these nights bc we have an extra hour together alone. She sleeps from 7:00-7:30 with no wake ups. </p> <p>Most days she naps. It will usually go 3-4 days straight where she naps and then 1 no nap day and repeat. But sometimes she'll have a 6 day stretch of napping days which makes me believe there is no way she's ready to drop naps. But then sometimes she'll do a 3 day stretch of no naps and I think she's going to drop her naps. Most of the time is pretty consistent with 4 days of naps and 1 day no nap. There is no rhyme or reason...there are days I'm convinced she's exhausted from playing and swimming but she won't nap and other days she slept in and we barely did anything and she'll pass out. It's a mystery to me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490493 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:42:18 +0000 T-Mom 1490493@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD's sleep at age 2 was not great.. Night terrors and had to have someone fall asleep next to her floor mattress, although she did sleep through the night. My DD's is great now that we put him back in the crib at 30 months, haha. When we had him on a floor bed, he kept getting up and crying for us. Not sure when we will try again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490443 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:35:46 +0000 enjollah 1490443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 25 months and was a great sleeper from 8 months until 20 months. 50% of the time he would wake up once and up to 3 times throughout the night. It was brutal. We just changed his crib into a toddler bed yesterday because he was climbing out consecutively for 2 days. He only got out once last night (right after we put him down) and stayed in bed tonight. I think consistency with the night time routine and setting the expectation of staying in his own bed is key. He does nap less In the day now since he can leave his bed and find me so maybe that might mean he's more tired at night. Sleep is hard... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490420 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:10:38 +0000 autumnlove 1490420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is an excellent nighttime sleeper (11-12 hours) but an inconsistent napper. She is 26 months and she still sleeps in her crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490407 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:53:57 +0000 rachiecakes 1490407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>awful!<br /> bed at 9 (with time change closer to 10 this week!) and when he wakes up, he'll stay up and try to talk to me all night. Mama's gotta work early! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490403 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:51:12 +0000 BoogieBea 1490403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought I cleared the hurdle of toddler sleep issues with my daughter. She's 32 months now and has been a good sleeper since she started sleeping thriugh the night at 9 months old. The only time she wakes at night or has trouble falling asleep on her own is when she's sick. Our bedtime routine has been exactly the same since the beginning. Just in the past week, she has been refusing to go to bed on her own. She keeps saying it's scary but I'm not sure if she's starting to have more vivid dreams or if she's just repeating what she hears her brother saying (he still needs help falling asleep as well). I really don't know what to do. I'm pretty sure she's tired as we've been playing outside a lot so tiring her out doesn't seem to work. She's also a thrower upper so I'm afraid of sleep training her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490309 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:41:01 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1490309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>don't get me started on toddler sleep... bedtime battles all the time ever since we transitioned noelle out of her crib - it was heaven prior to that! it doesn't take hours to get her to go to sleep, but she does stall! i am going to postpone the transition with jaren for as long as i can... but he seems like the type that'll do a crib leap or attempt to climb out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490217 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:53:44 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1490217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: @Stacy: i think it is also a developmental thing at this age. they are much smarter! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490211 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:51:07 +0000 Canoli 1490211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son is 28 months as well. In the past few months our bedtime routine has gotten longer and longer, he doesn't seem tired either. He has learned how to stall going to bed. We used to be able to do our routine in a half an hour but now it takes about a hour and a half. We have kept the routine the same and each night hope it gets shorter but no such luck yet! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490204 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:47:12 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1490204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was good but this week he is having 2-3 night wake ups, which isn't common. His sleep was rough over the winter and I attributed it to the same thing as you, under stimulated and cabin fever! It's finally not freezing out so I've been having my brother take him out during the day, and my days with him I make sure he gets out or we go to the gym to play and swim. It has made naps so much better - but I'm waiting for night sleep to improve. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-2-year-old-a-good-sleeper#post-1490199 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:45:19 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1490199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Charlie was an excellent sleeper until we had to transition him out of a crib shortly after he turned 2. Then it was pretty much bedtime battles on and off for a year! Once he was asleep he usually stayed asleep through the night. But the bedtime process could take hours!</p> <p>In the end we figured out that he was probably napping too much at daycare and not getting enough stimulation there. His sleep improved when he was in his 3's, and greatly improved once he dropped his only nap at 3.75.</p> <p>Olive is 28 months and she just doesn't seem tired at bedtime lately. She probably has the same issue of not being stimulated enough at daycare with all the cold weather we've had (they haven't been able to go outside). She goes to bed much later than Charlie usually these days, around 9pm or later. She has been a good sleeper since we sleep trained at 16 months, but bedtime has been a bit of a battle lately. Nothing like what it was with Charlie at the same age, and hopefully it doesn't become like that!</p> <p>How is your 2 year old's sleep? Did their sleep change in their 2's? </p>