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For the last month before dropping completely, most days she would go in and just jump around and talk to herself, say "I'm not sleepy", things like that. I'd get a nap here and there but eventually realized it wasn't going to happen anymore. This was in November a few weeks before turning 3.

I can't remember the specifics but it was more like no nap some days and nap other days and then I just decided the fight wasn't worth it! It turns out though that I could have made her bedtime earlier than I did (and I did make it a little earlier) so I recently changed bedtime and we get more night hours. Good luck!

It took about 6 months of transition time. During his quiet time, he'd take naps some days, and not on others. When he did nap, he wouldn't fall asleep for bedtime until 9 or later, and he always wakes at the same time every day. When he didn't nap, he'd be crashing by 5 or so, but we'd have to push him to get to 7. Which means during those 6 months he never really got enough sleep. The cumulative lack of sleep was starting to take a toll, and naps were hurting more than helping. So, at 3 and a few months, we pulled the plug-- no more naps. We moved bedtime to 6:30, and he finally got his full 11-12 hours in a 24 hour period. After a few weeks he adjusted. Bedtime became much easier because he was ready, and he slept better overnight, too.

My son stopped nearly cold turkey at 3.5 because when he switched daycares, his new class was no longer napping. It went ok and we still did/do weekend naps. He's now 5 and almost always takes a nap on the weekend at least one day if not both.

He was waking from naps cranky... he had a few random no nap days and made it through without any fussiness! So we decided to drop it and he went down earlier at night and went back to sleep 12/3 hours.