Too-Late Napping?

[URMySunshine77]

Baby girl has an undependable napping schedule but usually gets three healthy naps a day. Sometimes she ends up going to sleep at 6 or 6:30 and then then wakes up after an hour. I'm not really happy with this fourth nap but it doesn't seem like it's hurting anything. I was hoping that the 6:30 bed time would be firm when it happens. Do your little ones do something similar? 

[rubykitten]

We have a (roughly) 9 am, 12 pm, 3 pm nap times and a 6:30 bedtime. It's pretty consistent for the most part, and baby girl doesn't wake up after we put her down for the night. Maybe when she wakes up from her nighttime "nap" let her play in the crib in the dark until she falls asleep? Thats what we do with D if she happens to startle herself awake.

[URMySunshine77]

I see. She is in bed for bedtime, but it sounds like she isn't putting herself back to sleep. Hmmm.

[Deleted]

LO naps from either 9-1030 or 930-11 and then again from about 1-230. She is in bed for the night at about 530 and up for the day at 630. (She wakes up 2-3 times MOTN but if I nurse her she goes right back down to sleep)

I can't remember the last time she took 3 naps during the day.

[URMySunshine77]

I think she is moving to two naps. So today she slept 10:30-12 and 2:45-3:40. Then she went to sleep at 6:20 and woke at 7:20. I let her fuss for 15 min and then picked her up while I sang DS to sleep. Once he was asleep, I nursed her a bit, talked to her and burped her, and then put her down awake. She seems to have gone back to sleep.

I guess I am surprised that she can go down to naps and sleep awake but can't go back to sleep after that initial hour waking. Should I just go with it for now?

[URMySunshine77]

Oh shoot...not sleeping yet. The saga continues...

(update)
So she just needed to be burped and went back to sleep on her own with a little protest.

[scotty138]

I'm jealous of these babies that take naps over an hour.

Anyone else's kids still taking short naps? No, just mine? I'll see myself out now.