May 2011 Moms
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If your baby is STTN
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What is your nap schedule? How long are LOs naps?
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Re: If your baby is STTN
We do EASY. So he goes down after each of the first three feedings of the day. Anywhere from 60-90 minutes after he wakes up, So if he woke at 7 am he is usually down by 8:30 and sleeps anywhere from 45 min to an 2 hours. He still wakes ocasionally at 40-45 minutes into the nap.
Then we have a catnap sometime in the early evening beofre a 7:45 bath and down for the night by 9. Dreamfeed at 10:30 and he sleeps till after 6 most days.. today was 7:30!!
Our nap schedule is all over the place. The only guaranteed nap that happens every day is 8am until 9:30-10am. Besides that, she may cat nap the rest of the day or do 3 separate 45 minute naps; or another 2 hour nap later in the day.
She has been pushing her bedtime earlier and earlier though--she is asleep by 7:30 and usually wakes up around 5am wanting the pacifier and then goes back to sleep until about 6:30. Even when she wakes up, she would rather play for a few minutes than eat--she is all smiles and giggles.
I let Hailey sleep when she wants. We have never gone a day without her taking at least 1 nap for an hour. She sleeps a good 10+ hours at night. So far she has been a really easy baby and only cries when she is hungry. Letting her pick when she wants to go to sleep is working great for us right now so I see no need to change it just yet.
Our routine right now: (it's probably going to change soon, she's moving towards a 4 hour routine)
7:30 wake, eat
9-11 nap
11 eat
12:30-2:30 nap
2:30 eat
4:00/4:30 catnap (usually 45 minutes)
5:00/5:15 eat
6:30 bath
7:00 bottle
7:30 bed
10:00 dreamfeed
She sleeps through to her 7:30 waketime.
It's a 3/3.5 combo routine right now. An a.m. and p.m. nap start to form right around this time. And like a pp said, my DD might wake at the 45-60 mark and we put her in the swing to extend the nap.
I'd be cool w/ one wakeup at this point. I mean, you could try it, but some babies will still wake up or it disrupts their sleep even more
Wow! Lisafrank - that's a lot of naps! Here's what we do:
Wake 8/8:30 and eat
nap 10:30/11am
eat 11am
eat 2p
nap 2-4/5p
eat 5p
bath 8pm
eat 8:30
sleep 9/9:15 sleeps until 8am, about 1/3 of the time he STTN.
2 naps and a catnap (to hold over until bedtime) is a lot of naps? That's actually pretty typical for this age, IME. Especially with a waketime of 7/7:30 and bedtime of the same. I've found that her max waketime at this age is 2 hours.
Pretty soon we will ditch the catnap, but that 2-nap-a-day pattern sticks until baby is well over a year. Then they drop to one big afternoon nap in the middle of the day.