I know that several of you have children who have given up their naps early because I've done a search. But I'm wondering how your child acted during the transition.

DS 4.5 gave up his nap at 2.5 and I thought that was early. Now,though, I'm wondering about DD18mo. She usually does sleep during the day, and will sleep 2 hours sometimes, but then she doesn't go to sleep until 9:30-10 at nighht. She'll sleep late in the morning if I let her. I usually wake her at 9am. I'm kind of thinking about just letting her sleep in super late in the morning, then skipping the nap, to get a regular bedtime of 8:30ish. Overall sleep would be in the recommended range, just not split up like most normal kids.

My initial thought was to first attempt to shorten the nap and that went ok yesterday, but now it's well past naptime and she just won't go down, so I'm thinking about making the leap now.

Any thoughts?