TTMA naps

[carolyngrace]

We are transitioning from an average of 4 naps a day (of which two were usually longer than 1 hour, and two were 1 hour or shorter) to an average of 2 naps a day (where one is about 2 hours and the other is about 1 hour).

When DB was having 4 naps he also only went about 90 minutes in-between them. He is 5.5 months and just recently started (on his own) staying up longer in-between naps.

[musicfrk2002]

We just started getting long naps again after a few weeks of a nap strike. J is awake 1.5 to 2 hours then takes a nap in his crib, usually about an hour long. One nap each day seems to be closer to 2 hours, usually the one right after lunchtime/3rd bottle of the day.he starts daycare tomorrow though, so I'm sure he won't be taking his afternoon nap since he will only sleep on his stomach.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Mine ONLY naps when I hold her, or put her in the carseat/stroller and leave the house. If I put her down during the day in the house she wakes up within 5 minutes. Catnaps here are pretty much no naps.

[mcp6286]

Ever since the 4-month regression, H's naps have been pretty crappy too. She sleeps about 1 hour in the early morning, 45 mins around lunchtime, 1-1.5 hrs in the mid afternoon, and then another 20-30 mins around 5. But these are all either on someone or in a device (boppy, car seat, stroller) not in her crib. Then she's in bed at 6:30pm and up at midnight, 4 and 6:30am for the day. She turned 5 months today. I miss my happy 3-month-old sleeping machine!

[stinybean]

J has no rhyme or reason to when and how long she naps. Some days she cat naps, some days she sleeps for 1 1/2hr.

[dmoney]

DD will nap pretty well. On average she will take a nap around 11 am and then another nap late afternoons around 3:30/4. Both naps are around 2 hours, though if we do something that is more active she will sleep longer. Saturday because she didnt wake up till 9 (after being fed at 7) she didnt take a morning nap. We went swimming with her and that afternoon she took a 3.5 hour nap. Then she slept that night from 9pm-3:30am.

[baytosa2013]

Nov 15, 2015 12:40:40 GMT -5 @jemomma said:

M is a cat napper also. She take 3 30-45 minute naps a day. Nothing I have tried so far has gotten her to sleep for longer, but she does sleep extremely well at night. We put her down pretty early (around 6/6:30) because she gets so tired at the end of the day.
I have heard from a couple of other moms that once their LO's started staying awake for longer periods of time, nap times became longer. Also once they went down to just 2 naps a day they became more like 1.5-2 hr naps. I'm still waiting for that to happen, but she seems to be doing just fine with the short naps. It actually works out better for us because we do a lot of activities with my older two kids outside of the house, so I don't want to be waiting 2+ hours to be able to leave the house.

Samesies

C will take ~3-4 naps a day usually ranging from 15 mins to an hour depending on how tired she really is.  Generally they are about 30 mins each.  She's wide awake and playing for 2-3 hours in between.  She goes to bed at 7:30pm and sleeps till 6am when I have to wake her to get ready for daycare.

[holliberry28]

M will take a 30-40 minute nap around 7/8 in the morning, and then will take 2 1-2 hour naps if my MIL takes him outside. He loves sleeping in the stroller. If he's home, he'll take two 50 min naps in the swing also around 12 and 3ish. He's going to bed at 6:30-7 and waking up at 5 am for the day with one feeding in between.

Since he's been teething and rolling on his belly, the past few weeks we've been all about giving him tylenol and comforting him and we noticed that for the past week or so he's been waking up every hour to cry for the pacifier before going back to sleep.

So now we're on operation CIO again. Sigh. he cried for 20 minutes at bedtime, and then at 1145 for another 45 minutes. Up at 2 to eat, then up for the day at 5. But not really because he was exhausted so he got the pacifier and swing after 5. Is it ok to not count 5 am on as nighttime? FML.

[bookninja]

Nov 15, 2015 20:00:05 GMT -5 Joolschweets said:

Still don't have 'em. Not substantial ones anyway. We get about 20 mins at about 11, 30 mins at about 2 and 30 mins at 5. I just don't think he's ever going to be a napper.

+1 to this. Randomly we will get a longer one, but not often, and I can't ever figure out what makes it happen.

[beersandweirs]

We kind of came to the conclusion yesterday that keeping baby up a little longer usually leads to more like an hour and a half nap, instead of like 45 minutes. But of course now that we realize that, I am sure it will change. Babies, man.