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buffalo_buckeye
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Ok..so a what point do I wake from naps?
buffalo_buckeye
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Dd is almost 10 weeks. She naps from 8-11, 12-4 and them usually two more naps between 5-9 that are about an hour long. So she is only awake 4-5 hours in the day. Her nighttime is terrible (eats at 9, 11:30, 1,5) and I have tried to be patient but it seems like this is her routine (been like this for 2 weeks). We keep it quiet/dark at night but i do keep her naps quiet/dark too or she gets overtired and wont sleep at all. Suggestions? Let her figure it out? Wake from naps? Suck it up 
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Eta: the awake time includes eating time/diaper changes/time spent putting her back to sleep
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Re: Ok..so a what point do I wake from naps?
Sounds like your little one may have their days and nites confused. Here's some tricks I learned with my first child that seem to work for my son now as well.
*establish day and night in the home. Open blinds in the morning and during the day (even during naps). Shut blinds at night and only use soft lights
We also have had luck with having our son nap during the day out where there is alot of traffic.. noise, etc. I vacumme, clean, watch TV, etc while son sleeps during the day. At night, we quiet down and son goes to bassinet for night sleep.
Right now, he wakes around 630 or 7 in the morning, stays awake until 10 or so then goes down for another nap. Takes a couple of cat naps during the day. Evenings he is up generally from 6 -9 or 10 pm. We also bathe him every nite in order to help him establish bath time with bed time (eventually).
He does at least two or three 2-3 hours AWAKE stretches during the day.
I think my ticker is wrong.. but he is 6.5 weeks.
LO needs to get in his calories. If he doesn't during the day then he will at night. I don't let LO go more than 4 hours between feedings which sometimes means I have to wake him from a nap. I think this has helped him be a pretty good sleeper at night...he goes down around 8 and sleeps until 2 or 3 then goes back down until 6 or 7.
We also kind of follow EASY during the day so after each feeding we play for as long as he's willing. Sometimes it's for 10 minutes sometimes we do eat and activity, eat and activity for hours.