Morning nap is the longest-that "normal?"

LiluBee · November 2011

I always thought the morning nap was a shorter one and the afternoon was a long one. But lately LO takes about a 2 hour morning nap starting around 9 or 9:30am and then the afternoon nap is often 30 -45 minutes. Will that eventually turn into one long nap? Or should i somehow be encouraging a longer afternoon one? I've tried waking him a few times after an hour in the morning but the length of the second one always seems to stay the same.

bvisker · November 2011

My DD does the same thing, long morning nap and then 2-3 30minute naps in the afternoon. I remember reading somewhere (Weissenbluth (sp?) sleep book) that the morning nap is kind of a continuation of that night's sleep so it is a higher quality nap, but I don't know if that's true... In that same book it said babies should only be awake 2-3 hours before you put them down again, this works for us if we catch DD before she gets overtired, and she will only nap in the swing.