What does your nap "schedule" look like?

[islandgirl14]

I'm just curious where everybody is with naps these days... how often is your LO sleeping, and when? Right now we're trying to follow an eat/activity/sleep routine, so J is typically napping each feed cycle about an hour before he eats, almost every time. So, he's sleeping a lot. Sometimes I wonder if he is sleeping too much, or if a lot is still normal at this age, or when they start sleeping (napping) less? Naturally I can't remember how naps transitioned with age as DS got older, so I have no idea where we are supposed to be at this point! Thought I'd see what everyone else is doing? 

[tatersalad]

We still aren't on much of a schedule, and I never put my older son on one either, he eventually set his own. We also try to eat, play, sleep so I would say Texas Ranger typically takes a long morning and long afternoon nap (2 hours +) with some 30-60 minute naps here and there. He is sleeping at night anywhere from 7-10 hours now which is a blessing.

[Widget123]

LO is still mostly awake in the morning and evenings minus a few catnaps and mostly asleep in the afternoon, with naps up to 3 hours long. At daycare he sleeps worse than at home. He usually STTN.

[baytosa2013]

We have a cat napper too. She takes 3-4 naps a day usually anywhere from 30mins to an hour. She goes to bed from 9:30pm to 5:30am when she wakes to eat.

[Deleted]

What is this nap schedule you speak of?

[islandgirl14]

Haha @jimbobcooter, that's why I quoted schedule in my title, because I say "schedule", but don't really mean it... if that makes sense! I know a lot of us aren't really on a schedule, but I didn't know if there was any sort of consistency that anyone is noticing! J's naps fall in relation to when he eats, which is on demand, so it's a bit all over the place!

[kemdupuis]

Napping longer than 30 minutes?! For reals?! That's a thing?! Also, what is STTN?! My child hates sleep.

ETA: I try to get him to sleep constantly because he always fights it and I know he isn't getting enough. Our ped told us to shoot for 14-16 hours/daily. We are lucky if we get 12

[carolyngrace]

Oscar is just over three months old. He still sleeps a lot too. In my opinion, they can't really sleep "too much ". Unless maybe they weren't sleeping at night. And only during the day.

Oscar usually wakes up at 7 AM. First nap is around 8 AM, and lasts an hour. We also follow eat play sleep. So the second nap usually happens between one and two hours after he gets up.

After that it's less consistent. Sometimes his second nap is three hours long. In which case he may only take one more for the day. But if the second nap is one hour long, he might take two or three more catnaps after that.

In general I try to put him down for his last nap around 5 o'clock. And that usually lasts about a half hour. Then he's in bed around seven.

[Deleted]

We have zero schedule here during the day. He dozes off and on for 20 minutes or so, but he's mostly awake. Occasionally he'll actually sleep for an hour but always at random times. And he only day time naps if we hold him. If we put him down he wakes up immediately.

Night time is great. He asks (as in screams hysterically) for his bath about 7, bathes, eats, falls asleep by 8, then (most nights) sleeps until sometime between 2-3, then wakes up again between 5:30-6:30. I so wish his days would become as predictable.

[clbehenna]

Sept 8, 2015 10:11:50 GMT -5 kemdupuis said:

Napping longer than 30 minutes?! For reals?! That's a thing?! Also, what is STTN?! My child hates sleep.

ETA: I try to get him to sleep constantly because he always fights it and I know he isn't getting enough. Our ped told us to shoot for 14-16 hours/daily. We are lucky if we get 12

My thoughts exactly! R also hates sleep, and will sleep for 25-45 mins while being held or in his car seat. He took a 2 hour nap in his swing Sunday...but apparently he decided he doesn't want to make that a regular thing because he was wide awake most of the day (and night) yesterday.

I don't even want to calculate how much sleep we are getting over here. It will make me ugly cry.

I read once that babies who sleep less tend to be more intelligent. I'm going with that...

[periwinkledaydreams]

Sept 8, 2015 10:11:50 GMT -5 kemdupuis said:

Napping longer than 30 minutes?! For reals?! That's a thing?! Also, what is STTN?! My child hates sleep.

ETA: I try to get him to sleep constantly because he always fights it and I know he isn't getting enough. Our ped told us to shoot for 14-16 hours/daily. We are lucky if we get 12

This is my child. She's not a sleeper. I feel like we're constantly trying to get her to sleep because she's past the point of tired. Then again, she is all or nothing. Happy laughing, or screaming crying, or asleep. She doesn't do "mellow" or "drowsy".

I haven't clocked our actual hours but they go something like few 2/3ish hour stretches at night, sometimes a nice 4 to start if were lucky, and complete randomness during the day. If we're out of the house visiting family or whatever she usually takes a nice long afternoon nap to prove me wrong and make it look like Im lying about how much of a fuss she puts up for me at home. ♡♡♡

[wegrowsheep]

Sept 8, 2015 9:59:08 GMT -5 @jimbobcooter said:

What is this nap schedule you speak of?

Ha ha, THIS.

And then DS or DD walks into a room, says something random in their "outside" voice, and it's all over..

[wegrowsheep]

Naptime started 30 minutes ago, can't you tell?

[ashbash]

Sept 8, 2015 10:24:40 GMT -5 clbehenna said:

Sept 8, 2015 10:11:50 GMT -5 kemdupuis said:

Napping longer than 30 minutes?! For reals?! That's a thing?! Also, what is STTN?! My child hates sleep.

ETA: I try to get him to sleep constantly because he always fights it and I know he isn't getting enough. Our ped told us to shoot for 14-16 hours/daily. We are lucky if we get 12

My thoughts exactly! R also hates sleep, and will sleep for 25-45 mins while being held or in his car seat. He took a 2 hour nap in his swing Sunday...but apparently he decided he doesn't want to make that a regular thing because he was wide awake most of the day (and night) yesterday.

I don't even want to calculate how much sleep we are getting over here. It will make me ugly cry.

I read once that babies who sleep less tend to be more intelligent. I'm going with that...

My DD who is 2 now was never a big sleeper for the longest time and she is most definitely beyond her age things like ABCs, numbers, vocab etc.
/anecdote

[islandgirl14]

Sept 8, 2015 10:11:50 GMT -5 kemdupuis said:

Napping longer than 30 minutes?! For reals?! That's a thing?! Also, what is STTN?! My child hates sleep.

ETA: I try to get him to sleep constantly because he always fights it and I know he isn't getting enough. Our ped told us to shoot for 14-16 hours/daily. We are lucky if we get 12

We are not STTN either... in fact, we are in swaddle hell... He constantly busts out of his swaddle which wakes him up, but anything less than that will also keep him up. Currently trying one arm out swaddle, but he's up non-stop with arms a'flailing like spaghetti-arms. Complete misery...

[dmoney]

Before I returned to work DD would sleep in the mornings from 9-11/11:30ish then she would be up till about 2 and I would put her down to take a nap and she would nap from 2-5ish inm her crib... Now that she is at home with daddy, he has screwed everything up. She typically takes a nap around 3-4 now and its in her bouncer...if she naps in the morning its after her 7:30am feeding till about 10ish. I wish he would of kept her on the scheudle that I had her on because she is exhaustede and super cranky when i get home from work but there is nothing I can do about that... On TUesday when she is with my MIL she doesnt nap at all. she does things with her and thus gives me back a super cranky baby because even though ive told her she needs to nap, she insists on taking her to her MIL's assistant living duringr her long nap time.

[mathistm]

Lo is not really on a schedule yet but she is having a more predictable sleep routine. She goes down between 9 and 10 at night in the rock n play next to our bed. She wakes up to eat at 3 or 4am. She screeches at her pink elephant hanging from her activity mat and jazzercises for about 30 mins until she tires herself out and goes back to sleep in her swing until 9ish and is "up for the day". Usually around 11 she will go down for a long nap until 1ish. She is up until 3 and takes a cat nap and then naps again from 5-6:30ish. Then she's up until bedtime routine starts at 8. So 2 bigger naps and 1 or 2 cat naps usually.
Eta: she is 10.5 weeks.

[billyhorrible]

BH varies by the day. Some days he catnaps, where he sleeps for 20-30 minutes each time. Other days he's out for 3 hours at a time and might go longer, but I wake him to eat.

As for schedule, it depends on what time he gets up, but he's usually asleep every 90 minutes after that, max. Some days he eats and needs to go back to sleep. Other days he can only hang for an hour before I can tell he needs a nap.

In bed by 7, sleeps until 4, then eats and goes back to sleep until I wake him at 6:30 to eat before we leave the house.

[jessila]

Owen has kind of set his own schedule. He usually wakes between 730 and 830, snacks, plays then is ready to eat and nap around 10. That nap happens in the swing and is usually 30 minutes to 3 hours. And he fights going down. I just pop him in the swing and let him fuss himself to sleep.
Afternoon he usually naps about 2 hours total. He naps from 6-7ish and is ready for bed time around 830 meaning he might be asleep by 10.
Nighttime sucks. We wake anywhere from 2-6 times and I have yet to really find a pattern for predicting better nights. We are currently on vacation and he's sleeping in a PnP for the first time.
I wish nighttime was as predictable as his daytime.

My super loose 'schedule' is sleep, snack, play, eat, awake for 1 1/2-2 hours. Snack isn't always necessary unless he slept for a long time.

[kemdupuis]

Sept 8, 2015 11:08:26 GMT -5 ashbash said:

Sept 8, 2015 10:24:40 GMT -5 clbehenna said:

My thoughts exactly! R also hates sleep, and will sleep for 25-45 mins while being held or in his car seat. He took a 2 hour nap in his swing Sunday...but apparently he decided he doesn't want to make that a regular thing because he was wide awake most of the day (and night) yesterday.

I don't even want to calculate how much sleep we are getting over here. It will make me ugly cry.

I read once that babies who sleep less tend to be more intelligent. I'm going with that...

My DD who is 2 now was never a big sleeper for the longest time and she is most definitely beyond her age things like ABCs, numbers, vocab etc.
/anecdote

Well I certainly hope that is the case for us, too... Because I should be rewarded for putting up with this I- hate-sleep--hell somehow, right? It's only fair!

[tiffbot]

Average 4 cat naps through the day, generally asleep for nighttime by 8 (and still up a couple times to eat overnight, but doesn't open her eyes for it)

Of course once you think you know, it changes Along the same lines as tatersalad, DS eventually set his own schedule and it's been pretty solid for probably a year now.

[bookninja]

Cat naps during the day... Mid morning (about 1 1/2 hours after she wakes up), around noon, and around 2:30 or 3. Sometimes these naps are an hour or more, but usually they are 25 minutes or so.
However, I don't want to mess with it too much, because she is pretty regularly sleeping at night 8 - 4:30 or 5:30.

[Deleted]

Ali is down to 3-4 naps a day. here is an approximate day

Wake 6
Nap 730-815
Nap 10-3. She wakes at 12 to feed then goes right back to sleep ). I know this is crazy she sleeps for 4-5 hours mid day everyday

Nap 5-530
Bedtime 730

Wakes 1-2 times a night. Usually once at 3am.

[erbear]

Hahahahahaha what are naps?

She took an hour nap for my sister today, argh. Otherwise she only sleeps on me, in the swing, or in her car seat and those naps vary from 5 minutes-3 hours.

[musicfrk2002]

J doesn't really nap lately. Our schedule when we are at home is usually eat/play/nap/play. He naps more when we are out and about. He sleeps around 10 hours at night right now, so not sure how much sleep he needs. He either naps on me, or once in awhile will nap in his swing.

Typical day
-Wake up 7 to 8 am and eat
-Sometimes a short nap sometime between then and his next bottle
-Eats around 11, then a nap around 12:30. Short nap if he napped earlier, if he didn't I get about an hour.
-Eats around 2, and usually a short nap around 3:30
-Eats around 5, then takes a nap almost immediately
-Eats around 8 or 8:30, falls asleep almost immediately afterwards, in bed by 10, then sleeps all night

[bendherova]

We have a 35-40min napper too. (11 weeks) He's usually awake for 60-90min before he's ready for sleeping again. He's really only wanted to sleep ON someone (or in car seat in moving car or stroller) which is really inconvenient with an older child.

But I refuse to complain too much bc he gets an A+ for sleeping at night. (one wakeup between 4-5). We just moved his bedtime to 7pm, last week it was 8:30p.