Naps

Michelle - posted on 02/03/2011

Naps? What are those?? My 6 1/2 month old sometimes naps for about 20 minutes to half an hour at a time. Once she even napped for two hours! Amazing! She is nothing like my oldest who at three can nap for 3 to 4 hours at a time.

Yvette - posted on 02/03/2011

My son sleeps two times a day. He has been for three months now and he is seven months as of yesterday. My son does the exact same thing.

Ciara - posted on 02/02/2011

my daughter Mia turned 6 months sunday.. she's sleeping through the night since 2 weeks old usually waking at 10am.. she only has 1 long nap a day normally in the afternoon and 2 cat naps.. she goes to bed at 9

Natasha - posted on 01/30/2011

anaa that works out great because your lil one has long naps myu lil man will only sleep for 1 hour sometimes 1.5 hours

Anna - posted on 01/30/2011

My daughter is almost 6.5 months old and she is taking 2 naps a day. She gets up at 7 am, the first nap is at 9.20 am and she sleeps until 11.20 am, so two hours. The second nap is at 1.20 pm and she sleeps unitl around 3.45 pm, so a little over two hours for the second nap. She goes to bed at 7 pm, so she sleeps 12 hours at night, with one feed at 10.30 pm before I go to sleep.

Amber - posted on 01/30/2011

My six month old Lyra naps 3 times a day. She takes a short nap in the morning, and a long nap in the afternoon, followed up by another short nap in the evening.

Nina - posted on 01/28/2011

just for the night. i did try to nurse her, put her back to sleep. i just let her play to tire her and put her back to sleep when she got sleepy again. this does not happen every night though. this is unusual.

Natasha - posted on 01/28/2011

if she is waking at 2 or 3am i would not let her play no matter how much she wants to milk yes back to bed yes but if you let her play she will def want to play all the time... is 9-10 hours all together or just at night?

Nina - posted on 01/28/2011

my 6 month old LO is napping only 2x a day..once in the morning and once in the afternoon. morning nap is about an hour to hour and a half. afternoon nap is about 2 hours. she sleeps roughly 9-10 hours. though, lately she wakes up early in the morning like 2 or 3 am to play then sleeps after 2 hours. i also wonder if this is because of teething.

Joanna - posted on 01/27/2011

my son is a week away from being 7 months old. 2 weeks ago he switched from 3 short (30-60 min) naps to 2 longer naps. he gets up around 7am and goes to bed at 7pm with one wake for a feed that i'm trying to cut out. going to sleep at night is usually pretty easy, but he's starting to fight his naps a bit. I used to put him down for a nap right after breastfeeding him, and now i'm trying to put him down without BF right before hand, so he isn't dependent on it. that might be why he's being a little more resistant to it! but i'm happy that he now has 2 naps of usually 1.5 hrs each. So he's getting 15 hrs of sleep a day, on avg.

Kasie - posted on 01/27/2011

oh and he just turned 6 months today

Kasie - posted on 01/27/2011

Man you're lucky! My son doesn't sleep through the night yet so soon I'm going to make him learn by just letting himself cry back to sleep whenever he wakes up cause I think mostly right now he wakes up cause he's used to waking up every night. I'll give it another week or so though. He naps twice a day for an hour each time, some times if he doesn't get enough sleep at night though he'll sleep more.

Nikki - posted on 01/27/2011

My daughter goes to sleep around 9-10 at night, sleeps until about 8 in the morning then usually only takes one nap ranging from 1 to 3 hours then is up the rest of the time. every o nce in a while if she doesn't sleep long she will take a short nap around like 5ish. for the most part, whe falls asleep by herself. i'll go to the restroom and come back and she'll be passed out. and at nighttime it takes me about 3 minutes to get her to sleep after she eats.

Crystal - posted on 01/27/2011

"Bubba" sleeps well I think. He's 6.5 months old. We get up at 7:30 am, he eats some cereal and a fruit. 10 am he's down for an hour nap. 11:30 lunch: a dinner, veggie and fruit. 12 pm nap for 2-3 hours. 4:30 dinner: a dinner, two veggies and a fruit. 6-7 pm nap for an hour, 8 pm thick cereal bottle, immediately after bath and bed time. Goes to sleep by himself, sleeps all night with the occasional fussing because of teeth. Usually wakes up about 6 am, but will go back to sleep.

Per your son: I think he's adjusting his schedule, which is fine because he is getting enough sleep still so that is good.

Vanessa - posted on 01/27/2011

most days, Tyler fights naps. he takes 1-2 naps a day, usually 2hours...first usually starts around 10am, the second (IF he stops fighting sleep) happens around 3-4pm.. he wakes up around 8am every morning, (he has an older brother) and he goes to bed by 7-8pm.

Katrina - posted on 01/26/2011

mine used to be like that now shw fights it

Natasha - posted on 01/26/2011

wow reading all these my son sleeps so much he sleeps 11-12 hours at night then during the day would sleep another 3-3.5 hours sleep (which isnt much its right for his age)

how do all your babies sleep at night and how do they fall asleep during the day do they fight it fall asleep them selfs?

Katrina - posted on 01/26/2011

my 6 month old used to have 2 naps totalling 3 hours and now it varies she might have 2 napstotalling 20 mins and sometimes its 3 naps totalling 3 hours

Tracy - posted on 01/26/2011

DDs naps seem to vary according to the day, but they are almost ALWAYS 30 minutes long. Some days she'll just get one (like if going to see the grandparents), some days she'll have 3.

Alex - posted on 01/25/2011

hmmm my bub is 6 months and sleeps 2 times a day wakes at 7 am goes down for a nap about 9 and sometimes its for 45 minutes sometimes its for 2 hours, then also has a nap around 1- 1 30ish for the same amount usually bout an hour and then is awake till 6 30ish when she has her last feed and goes to bed for the night she sleeps through the night till 7am

Natasha - posted on 01/21/2011

yeh my son only sleeps for 1hour each 1.5at the max... some babies are long nappers some are short...i think he is fine sounds like enough like i said they say between 14-15hours

Cathy - posted on 01/21/2011

thx natasha!
i got him back up to 3 naps/day, but they are only lasting about 1 hour each. i was just getting worried cuz he went from napping 5-6 hours/day to about 3 but he's sleeping like 15-16hours/day so he's definiately getting enough!

Natasha - posted on 01/20/2011

my son is 6 months old and is having 2x 1 hours naps and 1or2 30-45min naps... everything i have read says a baby at 6 month should be awake for 1.5-2 hours and having 3 naps a day 2 long and 1 short. all babies are different but 2 naps doesnt seem like much in the booklet i got from sleep school off a friend doesnt recommend 2 naps til 8-9 months



also at 6 months they recommend 14-15 hours of sleep in 24 hours

Noami - posted on 01/20/2011

My little boy is also 5.5 months he wakes up at 10am then has a nap around 1pm lasting an hour to an hour and a half then he will have another nap around 5pm sleeping around the same as last time he goes to bed about 10pm sleeping untill about 7 has a bottle then goes back to sleep.

Anna - posted on 01/20/2011

my little guy wakes at about 8:30 am..and naps once during the day, sometimes twice if we're in the car, for about 2 hours. He does not sleep through the night. Bedtime is 7:30 and he gets up every three hours throughout the night.