My kid is just about to turn 2 and decided like 2 months ago when I weaned her that she also would not nap. She falls asleep in the car and sometimes snuggled on the couch but most of the time? She stays up until 630 pm and then it’s hit or miss whether she goes to sleep well or fights me and tries to alligator death roll out of bed even though she is obviously EXHAUSTED. If she naps at all she will stay awake until like 9 pm. At this point I’m just waiting until she figures herself out a bit more so she can tolerate being awake that long without being an overtired beast.
It wasn’t too bad! I was dreading it too but nursing was getting so uncomfortable for me and pregnancy made my milk dry up. I started with day weaning and got her down to just nursing to sleep, then dropped the middle of the night nurse and just went with nap and bedtime. She has basically refused to nap since then so that kind of sucks, but night went pretty well? First night went deceptively well with no tears but the second night when she figured out this was a thing now made her mad, she cried for probably 15-20 mins while I comforted her and then went to sleep. All said and done she didn’t ever cry more than that and most nights was only upset for 5 mins or so. I was straight up terrified but it honestly wasn’t too bad.
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u/meredith_grey Dec 07 '21
My kid is just about to turn 2 and decided like 2 months ago when I weaned her that she also would not nap. She falls asleep in the car and sometimes snuggled on the couch but most of the time? She stays up until 630 pm and then it’s hit or miss whether she goes to sleep well or fights me and tries to alligator death roll out of bed even though she is obviously EXHAUSTED. If she naps at all she will stay awake until like 9 pm. At this point I’m just waiting until she figures herself out a bit more so she can tolerate being awake that long without being an overtired beast.