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Anyone limit length of naps (esp. at daycare?)

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LO has always been a big napper.. he just loves his naps and he still sleeps pretty decently at night.  But lately there have been days at daycare where he's sleeping 4+ hours at a time and I don't really like that.. plus he is still waking up once at night (not every night),not to eat but to play and I wonder if less napping would help that.

I don't want to put a limit on his naps if he needs the sleep, but I don't want him sleeping every day away at daycare and still waking us up at night either.  What is a reasonable cutoff for one nap at a time?  3 hours? 4?

Just an absolute casserole of nonsense.
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Re: Anyone limit length of naps (esp. at daycare?)

  • AbinormalAbinormal member

    Back when DD would sleep all the time (lately she's decided naps are for losers) I would make sure she ate every 3 hours. So, if she was sleeping and it'd been 3 hours since she'd eaten I would wake her up.

    I would think that it's worth trying to wake your LO more often to see if that helps at night. It might backfire and he won't sleep well that night, but there's no way to know except to try. I would tell the daycare to only allow him to nap for maybe 1 extended nap (no more than 3 hours) and try to keep all other naps at the 1 hour mark.

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  • Prinycesa07Prinycesa07 member

    Me, personally, I let her nap as long as she wants (always 3-4 hrs) but im also a SAHM so its not a HUGE deal if she wakes up in the middle of the night.

    But if i were in your situation, i would ask them not to let her nap longer than, say, 3 hrs if it were causing her to wake up at night. Now if they woke her up and she was just falling back asleep i would definitley want them to let her sleep longer but i think after 3 hrs he's probably rested.

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  • IEtoLAIEtoLA member
    Is that his only nap?  DD will sometimes nap for up to 3 hours and it doesn't appear to affect her night sleep. 
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  • LitlSaraLitlSara
    imageAbinormal:

    Back when DD would sleep all the time (lately she's decided naps are for losers) I would make sure she ate every 3 hours. So, if she was sleeping and it'd been 3 hours since she'd eaten I would wake her up.

    I would think that it's worth trying to wake your LO more often to see if that helps at night. It might backfire and he won't sleep well that night, but there's no way to know except to try. I would tell the daycare to only allow him to nap for maybe 1 extended nap (no more than 3 hours) and try to keep all other naps at the 1 hour mark.

    This is what I do. Typically when I wake DD up after it's been 3 hours since she ate, she wakes up starving.

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  • rcollier_17rcollier_17

    We just try to keep DS on a 4 hr schedule. Most of the time he sleeps 1-2 hrs. Except this week he's not wanted to sleep at all and is only going for 44 min - 1 hr

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