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Around 20 months my LO's nap got later and later. Her awake time from about 5 hours to 6 hours and now at 2 years 3 months her awake time is about 7 hours.

So she used to wake up around 7:00 and go to bed around 1:00 and now she wakes up around 7:30 and naptime is 2:30. I would say she naps 3 days and doesn't nap 1 day and repeat. But when she does nap she sleeps for 3 hours so I know she still needs that nap. The days she doesn't nap I leave her for 2 hours for "quiet time" and she stays in her bed and sings/talks and plays with her loveys (3 stuffed animals) and then bedtime is moved up an hour earlier (instead of 8:00 her bedtime is 7:00)

My 18 month old is still taking 2 naps. She doesn't seem ready to drop one yet. Usually 10-12 and 3-4ish. Sometimes she can push her first one til 11 but she's still miserable in the afternoon because she's tired again do she'll have a late nap.

16 months and usually on 1 nap...from 1030/11 to anywhere between 12 and 1. He goes down really easily, I just wish he regularly slept at least 2 hours, because I don't think less than that is enough.

18 months old here. She wakes in the morning between 5:15 and 6. Down for a nap 11-1 and bedtime at 7. We've been on this schedule with a little fluctuation with wake and bedtime since 13 ish months.

@skibobrown: funny you ask. I'm sitting in my car right now while DD is napping. She's been fighting her naps like crazy lately but when we go for a drive she knocks out in 5 minutes so I know she's tired! She's 14 months and I still don't have this nap thing down.

@skibobrown: if she's not sleeping after 30 minutes I do usually go in and take her to the potty (she's potty trained but wears pull ups at bedtime and naptime). Then I tell her it's time for "nigh nigh" and tell her to lay down and be quiet. Sometimes that gets her to lay down long enough to fall asleep but sometimes she is quiet for 20-30 minutes and starts talking/singing/rolling around and then she's walking all around her bed. I just leave her until the 2 hour mark and then get her. Even if she doesn't sleep I think that time alone helps her get to bedtime without being cranky...and we do move bedtime up an hour and she passes out on those days l

@skibobrown: I'm always glad to hear I'm not the only one who rocked their kid to sleep for so long! it definitely felt like I was!

also like @sandy: said, on the occasion he hasn't fallen asleep, I would leave him in his room until 2 hours had passed. I would go in and soothe and lay him back down if he cried, but he's not coming out of there until 2 hours is up!

Sixteen months old and Miss A usually naps in her cot from about 1130-1300ish. Most days I nurse to sleep but she will go to sleep on her own after ten or fifteen minutes of rolling around.

@MamaChin: Ten or so hours is a normal night of sleep for my LO too and her total sleep is 12-13 hours in 24 hours.

@Penny Lane: We're still nursing to sleep over here!

Almost 3 years old and doesn't take a nap unless he has had a long activity filled day (usually on weekends). He is a grumpy napper and takes a long time to get out of his funk. We have quiet time in lieu of nap time, which he needs to get through the day. He sleeps from 7:15 pm - 7:00 am.