When's your baby's last nap before bedtime?

MrsT0514

Ok, this may sound ridiculous, but I wanted to get others' opinions/experience here, since I'm a little confused...

My son is just over 7 weeks, and usually his witching hours are from about 6-9pm (so he is usually very much awake and pretty cranky during these hours). He goes down for the night between 9 & 10pm. However, today he's been extremely passive, definitely more on the sleepy side, and napping really well (thus far, he's been a pretty fussy baby that fights naps like crazy, but I'm REALLY hoping this is finally his new formula doing him right and making him feel better, so he can finally be a happy, normal-demeanored baby!).

I guess my main question here, since I'm so used to him being so awake and cranky right now, is this: it's ok to just let him sleep if that's what he wants to do right now, right? I know it's sort of a stupid question - at 7 weeks old, I obviously should not be trying to set a nap/sleep schedule yet, correct? He's always been a good sleeper at night, so I'd really hate to sabotage his night sleeping with the napping he's done today!

Moms of babies around this age...what's their nap/sleep schedule like?

PrideandJoy29

DS goes to bed at 6:30 so his last nap is usually around 4.

aklawrence1

DD will be 7 weeks tomorrow. She's a bad napper typically. When she does nap, I let her sleep. Thus far, it hasn't affected her night sleeping at all. She goes down for the night between 945 and 10, and sleeps til 5ish.

irishprincess135

My baby is a little older than yours, she'll be 13 weeks this week and she goes to bed between 8/8:30 pm, her last nap is right around 6, bath at 7 and then nurse at 7:30/7:45 pm. Sometimes she'll nap from 6-7 pm but that helps her go to bed when she does. Let your LO sleep when he wants right now, it gets easier to put them on a schedule! 

kerbear135

My daughter is 2 months old..we let her nap whenever she wants, and typically she naps after her 6pm feeding, so somewhere between 7pm-9pm, and then we wake her up, feed and change her, and then let her lay on the bed or changing table and play with us for a bit, and she's almost always in bed and sleeping by 10:30...I am personally of the "let a sleeping baby lie" camp..so if he's sleeping peacefully, I say let him sleep.

MrsT0514

Thanks for the replies everyone. I too am a firm believer of the "let a sleeping baby sleep" rule, but he ended up waking up on his own not long after I posted. So I ended up feeding him, changing him, and we played for a bit. I've heard a lot of info about the naps actually HELPING babies sleep longer, although, I will say, he's definitely not going down easy tonight, haha. Go figure!

I'm thinking tonight, we may have to hang on til around 9:45-10ish, give one more bottle and then maybe he'll go down for the night.

DCKate

My daughter will be 8 weeks on Thursday.  Her fussy time is usually around 7-10pm.  She'll probably nap for about 45 minutes around 9pm, wake up, eat and change, and then be asleep for her first big nighttime stretch at 11pm.

I will say her naps are shorter in the afternoon, and she's starting to sleep four hour stretches at night, instead of 2 or 3 hours.  If she's napping though, we let her sleep!

Good luck!

A37licia

He could be transitioning to being ready to go to bed "for the night" earlier than before. If he seems sleepy, definitely put him to bed before he gets too far beyond.

pamiva1

kerbear135:

My daughter is 2 months old..we let her nap whenever she wants, and typically she naps after her 6pm feeding, so somewhere between 7pm-9pm, and then we wake her up, feed and change her, and then let her lay on the bed or changing table and play with us for a bit, and she's almost always in bed and sleeping by 10:30...I am personally of the "let a sleeping baby lie" camp..so if he's sleeping peacefully, I say let him sleep.

 

my little one is almost identical to this! 

sammich078

We still don't have an exact bedtime, we aim for between 7 and 10. I'd say the last nap before that is probably at 5 or 5:30 and it is relatively short.

bethann2385

My son is going to be 4 months old this week and his last nap ends between 4:30 and 5:00. He goes to bed about 7:45

BrittanyDoesDerby

Her last nap before bed usually ends by 4:30. She goes down around 7 usually.

moonchic73

DD has been sleeping through the night for the last 5 days, usually between 10pm-7am. 

 She's a little over 7 weeks old, and ever since she came home, we aimed for a bedtime anywhere between 9-11pm.  I'm not really a fan of waking up before the sun does so we didn't want her going down too early. We also established a routine pretty early on- story, bath, feeding, and finally to sleep.

 She seems to know what's up...Hopefully the last 5 days are an indication that the completely sleepless nights will soon be a thing of the past!