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Starting to have more awake time during the day?
janjag
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Is your LO still only up for no more than 2hrs at a time? Or, are they starting to stay up longer, especially before bedtime?
We're still mostly doing 1.5-2 hrs awake, except for after 3rd nap. He seems to be up for 2.5-3hrs. Sometimes he won't take a 3rd nap, which is weird.
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Re: Starting to have more awake time during the day?
Hannah is rarely up more than 2 hours, and when she is she gets pretty cranky.
My girls go down for a nap after about 1.5-2 hours. It's pretty normal for this age.
I have found this post helpful.
Thanks so much for that link! That woman has been busy since, lol.
Interesting on the <20min nap and <45min nap. We're transitioning out of the swing and he takes his morning nap in the crib. It is always 40-45min. I just assumed that was because he hasn't learned to put himself back to sleep yet. Tomorrow I will try putting him down a little earlier.
Maybe my DS is getting too much awake time, and that might be why he's resisting 3rd nap, and bedtime is getting to be such a struggle.
With the older DDs time gets away from me, esp in the evening, and DS isn't giving out the sleepy cues like he used to.
Yeah, We are on a 4 hour EASY routine. He's up for about 15 minutes, then he eats and we play. Almost 2 hours exactly after he gets up, he goes down for 1.5-2 hours. He does this twice perfectly. The third time, his last nap is only 35-45 minutes and some time he won't go down at all. It seems like our kiddos are pretty similar.
According to Baby Whisperer (which we follow), the last nap is normally a catnap and it isn't strange at all.
This, but her naps are rarely longer than 30 minutes. I think I calculated her average total awake time to be about 10 hours out of 24.
The only way we're getting one long nap right now is b/c he's in the swing for the afternoon nap. Otherwise they'd all be 40min naps. I *might* go cold turkey in the next couple of weeks and do crib only.
We went cold turkey from swing to crib for naps a little over 2 weeks ago and it was a long 10 days or so of 30-45 minute naps all day every day. Then about a week ago she finally started taking longer naps in her crib. Now she usually wakes up for the morning around 7, is awake for 1.5 hrs then naps for 1 hr, awake for 1.5-2 hrs then naps for 2-3 hrs (!!!), awake for 1.5 hrs then naps for 30-45 mins, then is awake for 2.5-3 hrs before going to bed around 8.