2 naps? HOW?!! Help Please!

WinterBuckeye

My girls are 8 months old and still taking SUPER short naps about 3-4 times a day. How did you get yours to go to 2 naps a day? I was following the EASY plan and they usually nap about 2 hours after last getting up. But that means that they only sleep for about 30-45 mins at a time and they do this at least 3 times a day and sometimes 4.

Help me! I really would like to take a shower. and I'm sure my husband would appreciate it if I did too. ha!?

Here's a sample of our schedule (play time is during all open times obviously. I just listed their bottle, food and nap times)

?7-7:30am--Wake

8am--bottle

8:30--breakfast

9:30ish-10:15ish-nap

11am-bottle

11:30ish-Noon--lunch

12:30ish-1:30ish---nap

2pm--bottle

3:30ish--nap

5pm-bottle

6:30ish--sometimes a quick cat nap

7:30ish-8pm---bottle and then to bed

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Tell me if I am too early to think 2 naps is possible. Or just give me suggestions. I'm open to ideas and suggestions. thanks!

Marie

Anna, Ava, Alexis 3-3-08?

cands

Two naps is possible at that time, but I don't remember exactly how we got there.  I think it was a gradual shifting of the first nap later in the day, which caused them to sleep longer for that nap.  But I'm hazy on the details.

lutzcowgirlie

Hmm. I have found with mine (who are on two naps a day) that sometimes they will wake from their nap way too soon, like after 30-45 minutes. If I give them a few minutes they will usually settle back down and fall asleep again, sometimes for another 45 minutes or so. Do you get them right away? The way I found this out was that I finally decided that naps were going to be for an hour - at least. So, if they woke up before that hour was up, unless there was screaming fit to wake the dead, I didn't go in. Usually they will wake, make some complaining, whiny sort of cries, then fall back asleep. Mine generally sleep for 1 - 1 1/2 hours each nap.

tripletmom

I know that this really is not a lot of help, but i found that girls do not sleep as long. i do have mine on 2 naps a day, but my little girl aways gets up before the boys and will usually only sleep 45 min to an hour at a time. The boys may sleep for hour and half to 2 hours. I have a friend with a little girl and her dd does the same thing.

EggRock

I'm not sure if this will help you or not, but our schedule looked like this for our girls at that age:

7:30 wake up

8:00 bottle

9:00 breakfast

brief nap around 10:00, I don't let them sleep more than 30-40 minutes, usually during a walk

11:30 lunch

12:00 bottle

1:00-3:30 nap (yes, 2 1/2 hours!)

4:00 bottle

5:00 dinner

7:00 bottle

8:00 bed

I do my best to tire them out in the morning so they nap well in the afternoon, and usually it works.  Also, we have terrible naps if the room is too light- we have to keep it dungeon-like dark in there, but it works really well.  Maybe try making their room darker to see if that helps?

 Good luck!