When did you start a regular napping schedule?

BlissfulGurl

So far I've been putting A down around 2:30 and she'll sleep for 1.5 hrs.  This has gone on for about a week but today was a doozy!  I'm wondering if she's not ready for a schedule yet?

Mrs.K&C

I half-assed tried earlier on and realized she just wasn't going to do it. We're going to start sleep training for naps after the holidays. She'll be over 4 months then.

NotJustAnAuntie

My sister and I started trying to get Max on a schedule a couple of weeks ago... it's kind of working!

I think it'll be harder to get ME on it than him! LOL

MamaDep

4 months.

Up at 7am

nap 9-10(ish)

nap 1-3(ish)

Bedtime at 7

dblhappiness

I think I tried to start around 4 months. But we really didn't have a set schedule until about 5-5.5 months. I made sure to put them down a certain amount of time after they first woke up in the morning and then again in the afternoon (I want to say we had a 9 or 10am nap and then another at 1-2pm).

muffinhead

around 4 months too.

 

up at 530/6am.

nap at 10/11am

nap at 3/4pm

bedtime at 7/8

 

the UP has always been 5 or 6am, unfortunately.      on the weekends, he lets us sleep in until 630am.

Mama_v2.0

There are different schools of thoughts on this topic.

Personally Z never had any kind of schedule until 9 months....

G at 6 months doesn't have a schedule only that I like him to go to bed at 7:30/8pm so DH and I can have an hour, and he gets 2-4 naps a day as needed. 

Mrs.Ganja

What is this nap schedule of which you speak?

mandymack

I had to go back and ready Emily's baby journal because I couldn't remember! 

We always journaled her daily naps from birth and once we found consistency, at 4 months old, I began planning my days around her naps so, that's when I started emplementing a daily schedule.

She was STTN 9 hours and was up at 7:30am

She napped at 10am for an hour

1pm for an hour

4pm for an hour

7pm for an hour

Bathtime and bedtime routine started at 9:30pm and she was in her crib in her own room at 10:30pm.

 

Reading through her monthly journal entries, she took three, 1- 1 1/2 hour naps every day until she was 8 months old when she dropped down to two naps a day.  She dropped down to one nap a day at 14 months old.

Hope this was helpful! 

tri-reader

We started around 3 months but that's because she was in daycare.  They were still a nap as needed but we worked on having some consistency.

KellyMarierockstarwife

I've never really has a "schedule" I just follow sleepy cues. That said, there was always a predictable routine, but it was set by him and would change every few weeks,

luojjang

Izzie didn't have a set nap schedule until 6 months, and she naturally developed one on her own. 3 naps a day, the times are a bit fuzzy....?