2 to 3 Month Old - Nap Schedule

StephanieS81

I am curious as to how many naps your 2-3 month old takes per day, as well as how long each nap is. 

My little girl gets up around 6:00 a.m. and eats every three hours.  She goes down easily for her first nap in her swing from 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.  The next few naps (she gets tired about 30-45 mins after each feeding) are a little more inconsistent.  If we're on the go, she typically naps really well in the car.  If we're at home, it's hard to get her down and once I do, it's hard for her to stay asleep.  I try her swing, crib and the bassinet in the living room, but nothing seems to do the trick.  I have to go back to work in January and would like to leave the babysitters with a better napper than what I have now! 

gebell

I'm finding my 10 week old is napping really well during the day 1-2 hours, and sometimes up to four hours, but she has to be in a dark room with no sudden noises and nice and warm too.

I also find that if she starts stirring too early i just pop her dummy back in and she will go back to sleep quite quickly.

I also don't go by a schedule, I just put her down when she starts getting sleepy, and if she is alert, I let her stay up for as long as she wants, that way when she goes to sleep she is actually tired enough for a decent sleep.

This is just what works for us, but I think everyone is different! 

Good luck. 

LadyDelilah

gebell:

I'm finding my 10 week old is napping really well during the day 1-2 hours, and sometimes up to four hours, but she has to be in a dark room with no sudden noises and nice and warm too.

I also find that if she starts stirring too early i just pop her dummy back in and she will go back to sleep quite quickly.

I also don't go by a schedule, I just put her down when she starts getting sleepy, and if she is alert, I let her stay up for as long as she wants, that way when she goes to sleep she is actually tired enough for a decent sleep.

This is just what works for us, but I think everyone is different! 

Good luck. 

This is whats going on with us too, no schedule just whenever and the bink goes in quickly and she will stay out for almost 3hrs if shes up by 8 and back down by 11 or noon

Chevy412

my daughter goes to sleep around midnight, sleeps till 6 or 7 and then eats and sleeps for another two hours. Around 11 she takes about a 30 minute nap and then again around 1. By  4 or 5 she takes an hour nap and is then up till ten, eleven, or midnight.

MSC03

I've been trying to figure out if my LO has much of a schedule or not. I just follow what she seems to feel like doing.

She's usually up around 7, eats, then takes a nap until 9:30 or so. She's up for a bit, eats, and then takes another nap around 11:30. Throughout the afternoon she's in and out. There's usually a nap around 3 and another around 6-7. She goes to bed around 9.

sock poop

Schedule???  Ha!  DS is a pretty terrible napper.  He sleeps wonderfully at night but during the day is so inconsistent.  He has many days where he will only sleep for half an hour at a time and it takes awhile to even get him down.  Then once in awhile he will have a monster 4 hour nap in the afternoon.  No rhyme or reason to it.

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