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What is your baby's nap schedule like?

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I'm just wondering what kind of schedule most of you follow for your baby's naps.  Do you:

1) Follow the infant awake time chart, no matter what time your baby gets up in the morning. ie, if your 7 month old wakes up at 6 am, you put her back down at 9 am for a nap; and if your 7 month old wakes up at 6:30 am the next day, you put her back down at 9:30 am for her nap.  You let her sleep as long as she wants for her naps.

2) The naps are always at the same time, no matter what time your baby wakes up in the morning, and you wake her up after a certain amount of time to stick to the day's schedule.  If your baby wakes up at 6 am, you put her down for a nap at 9 am, and if she wakes up at 5 am, or even 7 am, you put her down for a nap at 9 am; you only let her sleep one hour (for instance) so that the rest of the day will always be on the same schedule.

Right now we are doing the more flexible #1, and and I'm wondering if I should move to a more rigid schedule so that the day is more predictable.  I've read about the importance of schedules, but is that what they're talking about?  A specific time for naps/awakenings every day? 

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  • inthewaterinthewater
    We do naps on my LO's time. She varries throughout whatever is going on with her body and day. She use to only do two 30 min naps a day. I think she's going through a growth spurt right now though because she's eating more and sleeping a lot longer - about 90 min to two hours. That's length is usually once while her second nap (if she has one) is about 30 to 60 min long. No matter what though, we don't let her take a nap after 4 (if she's already asleep though, we'll let her nap till 4:30) and then we always have her in bed around 7. HTH :)
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  • kewltifkewltif member

    I do method 1, although perhaps when she gets older I will switch to method 2.

    If I try to force a nap time right now she'll just fight it. I have to follow her cues and wait to see when she is tired.

    I think we might be in the process of moving from 3 naps a day down to 2. She's been waking up 1-1.5 hours later recently, and that pushes back her first 2 naps and squeezes out the 3rd.

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  • Jeremy'sMomJeremy'sMom member
    Our "rule' pretty much is, if he's being fussy for seemingly no reason and hasn't napped in two hours or more, we try to put him down.  9 times out of 10 he falls asleep.
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  • carinamarie77carinamarie77 member

    imageJeremy'sMom:
    Our "rule' pretty much is, if he's being fussy for seemingly no reason and hasn't napped in two hours or more, we try to put him down.  9 times out of 10 he falls asleep.

    Same here. Usually this works out to a first nap starting bw 9 and 10AM and a second nap no later than 2:30PM.

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  • Lisa FrankLisa Frank member

    We got DD's waketime established pretty early and we stick to it. She eats every 4 hours during the day and is currently STTN.

    This is her typical schedule:

    6:30, wake eat

    7:30 solids

    8:30-10:30 nap (sometimes she sleeps that long, other times she wakes around 10)

    10:30 eat 

    12:30-2ish nap

    2:30 Eat

    5:30 solids

    6:00 bath, jammies

    6:30 bottle

    7:00 bed

    If she wakes before 6:30 (sometimes she's up around 5/5:30) I let her go unless she's crying, but that really doesn't happen. She will put herself back to sleep until 6:30.

     

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  • kabarbanelkabarbanel member
    DD has pretty much set her nap schedule. She goes down about 2-3 hours after she wakes up in the morning, and once she gets up from her morning nap, she is ready for her afternoon nap about 3 hours later.
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  • SouthFloridaMommySouthFloridaMommy member

    imagekabarbanel:
    DD has pretty much set her nap schedule. She goes down about 2-3 hours after she wakes up in the morning, and once she gets up from her morning nap, she is ready for her afternoon nap about 3 hours later.

    This exactly. 

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