And, has that changed over the past year or so?
My 3 year old (4 in June) has mostly dropped her nap. She sleeps 10 hours a night. Sometimes a little more. It's killing all of us. She needs more than that and she's just not getting it.
How many hours of sleep a night is your 3-4 year old getting?
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Xander just turned 3. He's getting 10-11 hours at night, and a 2 hour nap, so 12-13 total.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
3 1/2 (she will be four in October.) gets 9 1/2 at night, and usually a 1-2 hour nap (about 75% of the time) it's not enough but she fights bedtime and nap like crazy.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
She takes a one hour nap at daycare and gets about 9-10 hours overnight. She won't nap on the weekends. Turning 4 next month!
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
She turns 3 on Friday. 1.5 hour nap (average) and then 9-10 at night.
pear / 1616 posts
about 10-11 overnight. on the weekends she naps 2-3 hours. at preschool, its hit or miss. i'd say on average 1 hr naps. but somedays no naps (and we can definitely tell if she napped or not by 6pm.. :-/) she definitely needs to nap still but i guess its just hard to settle down at preschool, esp if her friends aren't napping!! i do reward her for napping with a special snack after school bc we are all much happier if she naps! 
pomegranate / 3438 posts
DS will be 4 at the end of the month. He gets about 12-12.5 hours (sometimes more if it's been a busy week/day) in 24 hours. He still naps at daycare and if he has a longer nap (2+ hours) he doesn't fall asleep until later. On the weekends he usually doesn't nap so he will sleep longer at night.
cantaloupe / 6687 posts
4 years old with no nap. School days she sleeps 11.5 hours (7:30-7:00) bc we have to wake her up. We let her sleep in on the weekend so she sleeps about 12-12.5 hours BUT that often means she is not tired Sunday night when it's bedtime so she'll lay awake for an hour or so before falling asleep. But I think laying in bed in the quiet/dark is still restful for her so we pretty much stick to an early bedtime
grapefruit / 4717 posts
Ugh, sounds so hard! My 3.5 (uh....gonna be 4 in June) yo still takes around a 2-hr nap daily. Generally sleeps from 8:30-6:30? So....12 hrs in a 24-hour period? He may wake up earlier than that and I don't know it. He knows to stay in his room until 7a. Sometimes it takes him longer to fall asleep, too.
blogger / pomelo / 5400 posts
At 4.5, roughly 11, from 8-7. No nap. Sometimes little bro wakes him up early and he only gets 10. He really needs 11, though.
eggplant / 11824 posts
Not enough sleep, IMO, but I feel like LO has low sleep needs. She mostly doesn't nap at school and never naps at home. She sleeps about 10 hours a night. I wish it was more like 12 hours at night.
persimmon / 1436 posts
Usually 11 hours at night. No naps. It's not enough but she is a fighter. Will be 4 in June.
honeydew / 7444 posts
11 hours at night, no nap. She is turning 4 next month.
Now that she is consistently not napping, i find that i need to put her to bed super early. She sleeps the best when she is asleep by 6:45-7pm.
persimmon / 1461 posts
Turning 4 in May - no daytime naps since she was about 2.5 yrs old, but will consistently sleep 7pm - 7 am (give or take half hour either way). No night time wake ups, she is out like a log at night - during the day she is GO GO GOOOO.
apricot / 307 posts
Turning 4 in May and he still naps on most days for about 1 hour. Usually sleeps from 7:30 until 6:30.
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
9-10 hours at night. 1.5 hour Nap at daycare but not on weekends. 
pomegranate / 3706 posts
My oldest will be 4 next month, and hasn't formally napped in a year (she has napped randomly in the car, or on days she's sick sometimes). She sleeps 7:30/8, to 5:30/6. Rarely, she'll sleep a bit past 6 AM. So, about 10 hours. And she's our "good" sleeper!
pomegranate / 3872 posts
3 yrs old - 11 hrs at night, very rarely a 1 hr nap during the day.
cantaloupe / 6751 posts
She's 4. Usually sleeps around 10-11 hours a night. She's in a better mood of its closer to 11 hrs 
No nap unless she's sick.
@mediagirl: the transition when she dropped that last nap was pretty tough. If I remember correctly it took a couple weeks to get accustomed to it
grapefruit / 4455 posts
@mediagirl: we went through several months of thinking dd could use her nap back, although it wasn't the same time right after she dropped her nap. So I started enforcing resting time. And I made bedtime earlier than it had been in awhile. She's now at 11 hours. Baby brother is about the same overnight. We put them both down between 7-730.
coconut / 8279 posts
9-10 hours total.
He hasn't napped on a regular basis since shortly after he turned 1 (he's 4). He's always been all energy all the time and it's exhausting and miserable trying to force him to sleep. He just won't.
pear / 1879 posts
This is such a hard topic for us. LO (turned 3 in Nobember) has never been a good nighttime sleeper but has mostly maintained a good nap...until just recently where it's all over the place. On a good night/day, he probably gets 12 hours but on a less good one, it's closer to 9-10 which is not enough for him. It's amazing the differences we see between 10 and 12 hours for LO.
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
Age 4.5 and never slept a ton but is sleeping 10 hours at night and 1-2 in a nap
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
3.5, and he gets 9-10 hrs at night and 2-3 hr nap at school. Hasn't changed in the last year.
persimmon / 1447 posts
Just turned 3- she sleeps 10-11 hours at night and takes a 1-3 hour nap every day. So, 11-14 hours total.
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
DS is 3 and he gets about 9 hours at night, and a 2-3 hour nap. On average about 11 hours.
pomelo / 5791 posts
11-12 hours at night, plus a 2 hour nap. He just turned 3 last month.
pear / 1852 posts
She just turned 4.
On an average night, she's asleep at 8 (in bed for snuggles and stories at 730), and then awake 630-7. So 10.5 hours, 11 if I'm lucky?
Don't worry if she gets slightly less than whats recommended. Some people naturally don't need as much sleep!
pineapple / 12566 posts
Ever since he turned 1, my son has slept a pretty sold 11-12 hours at night. He was taking daily 1.5-2 hour naps until 3.5. Now that he's 5, he still sleeps 11-12 hours at night and has an occasional weekend nap (2-3 hours).
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
10.5-11 total. 4 in May. Hasn't napped in a year unless sick or in the car. This week, it's been 10 total. He's been crabby.
apricot / 320 posts
DS turned three in Dec. Sleeps 10-11 overnight during the week and sometimes up to 12 on the weekends. He still has naptime at daycare and home and falls asleep about 50% of the time. He's very strung out on no-nap days.
honeydew / 7488 posts
4.5 yr old does not nap and sleeps from 8-6:30, so 10.5 hour. He could definitely sleep more, but he's on the same schedule as my 7 year old so there's not much I can do. He seems ok though.
pear / 1703 posts
At age 3 = 14 hours
At age 4 = 12 hours
At age 5 = 12 hours
At age 6 = 11.5 hours
She sleeps 7:30pm - 7:00am, I can't imagine her having less sleep than this.
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