Do the "awake time" apply to anyone?

Re: Do the "awake time" apply to anyone?

• MrsBoike

  August 2011

  Cjohn1211:

  According to the "awake time" chart my LO should be up from 60-70 mins between naps. Yeah right! Sometimes he is up for 5-6 hour stretches dispite my attempts to get him to nap.

  Does anyone's LO nap this often???

   

  My LO is only 2 weeks and 5days and yesterday I was lucky to get her to take 2 1-2 hr naps!! She was soo cranky!!!! 

  Quit talking about me on The Bump!

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• NthnButMoonshine80

  August 2011

  Double post...sorry!

  

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• NthnButMoonshine80

  August 2011

  Three good naps and one okay nap a day here.  Then sleeps from dreamfeed at 11:30 to 7:30 am.  Hope you can get that LO to nap for you!

  

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• M&M227

  August 2011

  It depends on the day.  Usually no, but today DD has been sleeping pretty well, thank god, mommy needs a break!

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• JDWNYC

  August 2011

  Where is this awake time chart you speak of? My DD is rarely able to stay up for more than an hour before she turns into a monster. She would stay up and cry at me if I let her, but when she starts getting fussy I have learned to just put her in her bed - better she cry at it for 10 min and then fall asleep than cry at me for several hours (although she rarely cries much at all when I put her to bed unless she it overtired). If your LO is up for 5-6 hours and not entirely pleasant you may need to let him cry just a little in his bed to fall asleep. It was hard to do this with my first but well worth it - well slept babies are much nicer to be around!
  

  

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• hmms member

  August 2011

  My LO is still quite sleepy, she's usually awake about an hour, then crashes for 2-3 in the bouncy or swing.  She has one longer awake stretch in the evenings of (2-3 hours).  I keep thinking soon she'll be awake longer, but taking advantage of the quiet time and getting some projects completed on leave. 

  

   

  

  

   

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• kaydogger member

  August 2011

  JDWNYC:

  Where is this awake time chart you speak of? My DD is rarely able to stay up for more than an hour before she turns into a monster.
  

   THIS! Mine also does not want to be awake for long stretches. Now at the very first sign of fussing she goes right to nap time (taken upstairs, swaddled, paci) and falls asleep in less than 2 minutes. I used to try to keep her awake because I thought she was still sleeping too much. Not anymore!
  

  

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• kewltif member

  August 2011

  My DD was EXACTLY like that until I learned to let her fuss a little bit.  Now I put her down for all naps in her crib (unless we're out) and I make her room super dark. I put her sound machine lamb on and pop a binky in her mouth. I'll walk out and let her fuss for like two minutes then walk back in put my hand on her back and re-pop in the binky, then I leave again. I just repeat the cycle till she's sleeping. It used to take so many cycles of this, but now I can sometimes get her to fall asleep after only one or two binky pops.
  

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