4 months old and cat naps

dbeachem122

HELP!!!!!! It seems as if my LO will maybe take an hour or less naps each day maybe like 3 or 4 times a day and as soon as I try to sleep too I look over and he's up and looking dead at me smiling is this normal and what are some tips to help me get him to sleep a little longer if possible

DBecker84

My LO is 16 weeks (not "officially" 4 months until the end of the month-don't know why it lines up like that) but does the same thing and takes 3-4 cat naps a day.  For now, I'm just going with it.  I'm trying to remember back to my first, but that was 3 years ago!  How does your LO sleep at night?  Thankfully we get around 12+ hours with 1-2 feedings.  I just can't remember when the cat naps ended and "real" naps began :-(  I'm right there with you and feel your pain, but with a 3 year old, who thankfully also still naps!!

adge629

My son is 4 months also and has just started this. Any movement I have noticed he wakes up. So I try to leave him sleeping where he is at, making sure it is a safe place. The only good thing out of mine is that he sleeps all night already. Sorry no real help. But your not alone

delujm0

This is normal...by the time they're 4 months, few children are taking multi-hour naps anymore.  They should be getting somewhere between 2.5-4 hours of naps in during the day, depending on how long they sleep at night, and the more naps they take the shorter those naps are.  LO typically takes 4 naps a day, all of which are between 20 and 45 minutes long, and then she sleeps 11-12 hours at night.  Occassionally she will sleep for 60 or 90 minutes for one of her naps if she had a rough night, but then she just takes fewer naps that day.

 

By the time they get to 6 months, they take fewer naps, so some children will lengthen them out to an hour or so at that point.  But some kids are just cat nappers.  I hate that i can't get anything done during the day on the weekends because LO won't take long naps, but if that's what it takes for her to sleep soundly from 7pm - 6/7am, i will take it.  i'm a much happier person when i get to sleep at night.  My nephew started taking long naps again when he moved to only one nap a day - he had been taking two 60-90 minute naps and then after turning 1 he moved to one 2-3 hour nap instead.  The long naps of newborn-hood end pretty quickly!

Bigboobsmcgee

delujm0 said:

This is normal...by the time they're 4 months, few children are taking multi-hour naps anymore.  They should be getting somewhere between 2.5-4 hours of naps in during the day, depending on how long they sleep at night, and the more naps they take the shorter those naps are.  LO typically takes 4 naps a day, all of which are between 20 and 45 minutes long, and then she sleeps 11-12 hours at night.  Occassionally she will sleep for 60 or 90 minutes for one of her naps if she had a rough night, but then she just takes fewer naps that day.

 

By the time they get to 6 months, they take fewer naps, so some children will lengthen them out to an hour or so at that point.  But some kids are just cat nappers.  I hate that i can't get anything done during the day on the weekends because LO won't take long naps, but if that's what it takes for her to sleep soundly from 7pm - 6/7am, i will take it.  i'm a much happier person when i get to sleep at night.  My nephew started taking long naps again when he moved to only one nap a day - he had been taking two 60-90 minute naps and then after turning 1 he moved to one 2-3 hour nap instead.  The long naps of newborn-hood end pretty quickly!

Exactly this. Sorry OP but it's normal.

As they get older and take fewer naps, the length of the naps get longer but it takes time.