2 or 3 naps?

meg_2006

What are your LOs doing these days?  DS has been difficult to get down for his 3rd nap the past few weeks, so we dropped it.  But it's incredibly difficult to keep him up from 3-8.  Makes for one cranky baby!  We tried putting him down sooner but that made him wake up really early.  

pcrock92

Mine is down to like 1 1/2 naps. Usually right after lunch from about 122 and a half hour nap around 4 or 5. He goes to bed at 9 and he sleeps horribly. He's.NEVER STTN!! He still wakes up every 2 hours and wants tl eat. Maybe he needs more naps? I don't know.

sanbry

2 naps. One is in the morning, one in the afternoon. The times vary a bit depending on how early she woke and how long the naps are. She's generally up a long stretch in the evening too, usually anywhere from 4-8. She only gets crabby right before I start her bedtime routine though, most nights at least.

babesbabs

We dropped the 3rd nap a few weeks ago. It kept screwing up the bedtime. He wakes up around 8 goes down at 11ish and sleeps about and hour and a half and then goes down again at 4ish and sleeps about an hour and a half. Bed by 9.

lorahbora

We do 2 naps - usually 9am until 10:30/11am, then I try to keep this awake time as long as I can manage - preferably until 2:30 or 3 if she can hack it. That way she wakes up from her nap around 4:30 and can make it until bedtime (7:00). She definitely still conks out around 1pm some days, and then the 3pm until 7pm stint is touch and go. She'll get sleepy around 5, then refuse a nap, then fuss until bedtime. Yay for transitional periods!

raefre

Two naps, as per DH

shortstuff15

We've been at 2 naps for a couple of months already. Now she wakes up at about 6:30, goes down for nap one at 9 or 9:30ish for an hour or more, goes down for nap 2 at 1 and sleeps until 3 or 4 or anywhere inbetween. She goes to bed between 7:30 and 8. The second nap is not movable time wise. I put both girls down for naps then so that is my only time with no kids awake and that is not changing. Same for bedtime as now they both go to bed at the same time.

I've learned that the second one adapts way more because they have to. There are some days my youngest doesn't nap at all in the morning, town days or if we go out at that time of morning, and she still manages to last until 1 before she naps. But those naps usually last longer then normal!

michaelaskedlauren

We try and do 2 naps, but every now and then the babysitter will put him down for a 3rd one if he is looking really sleepy/rubbing his eyes.  Nap #1 is normally around 10 (sleeps for about 60-90mins), Nap #2 is around 2 (90+mins). Bedtime routine starts around 8:30ish.

We are pretty relaxed about the whole nap thing. Some days all he does are cat naps, others he crashes for 2+ hours at a time!  

baloneydisc

2, unless one is too short, then she needs 3.  She's up anywhere from 5:30 - 7am, nap around 9:30, then one at 2.  If the 2pm nap is too short (20-30min) she'll take one around 4/5 & then bed at 8:30.  She will occasionally catnap in the car too.