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Should my toddler take one or two naps a day?

My 14 month old wakes up around 7:30 every morning and goes to bed between 8 and 9 every night. She usually sleeps all night long. Until recently she has been taking to naps one around 10 am and another around 3 pm. The last couple weeks she has started to skip her morning nap and wants to nap from noon till 2. This is fine with me but then she gets tired by 6 pm and if I let her take a nap then she will not go to bed until 11 pm. Should I encourage her to take a morning and afternoon nap like before, should I let her nap for a couple hours around noon and try to keep her awake until bed time or try something different?
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chemist | 1 year, 10 months ago
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Yes.
You should also stick to a consistent daily schedule, as well as bed- and naptimes. It is a good idea to set and stick to consistent bed- and nap. If your daughter naps, eats, plays, and gets ready for bed at about the same time every day, she'll be much more likely to fall asleep without a struggle.

1. Try to establish a healthy sleep habits.
2. Make sure your child is able to fall asleep on his own.

Until your daughter third birthday, she should get about 14 hours of sleep a day, 11 of those hours at night and the rest will come in nap form. She may be ready for a single hour-and-a-half to three-hour nap in the afternoon — a pattern he may follow until he's four or five. The transition from two naps to one can be difficult.
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kennbug | 1 year, 10 months ago
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My daughter is 14 months old as well! She wakes up between 6-7 in the very early morning. She will then go about eating breakfast, and I will paly with her and she has activities to do. Then she will go to sleep around 11 stay asleep for about an hour and then she will take another nap at around 2 and sleep for an hour. She then goes to bed at 8 pm!

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dtvrivera | 1 year, 6 months ago
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Toddlers are still very small children who require upwards of fourteen hours of sleep a day. Of course, in theory the number of hours of sleep each child should enjoy often differs vehemently from how much time each individual child actually spends sleeping or napping. Young children are easily distracted by the world and happenings around them and at toddler age they have achieved enough mobility milestones to actively participate in everyday activities along with their parents, siblings and friends (if we let them). However, as you have already mentioned, when a child has been used to a certain nap time routine, which he/she is allowed to change suddenly then at some time during the day, that missed sleep time will catch up to him/her and the child will feel the exhaustion of staying awake longer consecutive hours. It might be a good idea to continue his/her former nap routine for just a few months longer, or if he/she completely refuses to go down at the usual 10 am nap, then maybe changing the nap time up by half an hour or even an hour might prove more successful than implementing a dramatic change, such as two hours or more, which would push a second nap time in the day (that, it seems, the child still needs) even further back. Overall, allowing a toddler two separate nap times during their long day, is probably still a good idea to prevent overwhelming the child, exhaustion, and tantrums.
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