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Does anyone's LO still have a cat nap at 6.5 months?

noahchristophernoahchristopher member
in Babies: 6 - 9 Months

We dropped the cat nap a couple of weeks ago, increased our son's awake time, and his naps got a lot better and longer, uninterrupted.  However, we had to do early bedtimes between 6-6:45 because the second nap was still ending too early for a later bedtime. 

What started happening is he would wake up for the day between 5:20-5:50am which is understandable since he'd already slept 11-12 hrs. 

We hate that early wake up so we've decided to try and shorten the naps a bit and give a mini cat nap again to get to a later bed time.  Last night we had him out and about and his naps totaled less than normal.  We gave him a cat nap and bed time was at 7:20pm.  He slept without a peep until 6:30.  First time in FOREVER! 

Anyone else?

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Re: Does anyone's LO still have a cat nap at 6.5 months?

  • dairygirl19dairygirl19 member

    My almost 9 month old still has a catnap most days.

    I was never one to worry about this though.

    She sleeps when she's tired. Plays when she's not.

    I don't have much of a napper though and no matter how long/often she naps..she still goes to bed by 7:30 and is up by 6:30ish.

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  • TeacherVickyTeacherVicky member

    Still have it here and I don't forsee losing it anytime soon.

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  • bluejettabluejetta member

    We sometimes do but we're working on an early bedtime (6:30) these days because our DD was waking between 5:30/6:00 most days and needed more sleep. She wakes 2 times at night so if she were STTN I would have let bedtime be later at 7.  We're also working on a three nap schedule so days when her first 2 naps are long and end around 3 then we don't have a third nap (she'll resist it).  Days when the first 2 naps are short then we do a third nap to bridge gap to bedtime.

    I hope we'll eventually get 11 hours with a 7pm bedtime and a 6:30 wake up with 2 naps but that is asking a lot right now.  

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  • AmandaP678AmandaP678 member
    All his naps are catnaps
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  • DawnJM25DawnJM25 member
    We still have a 3rd nap later in the day, too.  I'd like her take a longer afternoon nap and skip the catnap, but I guess it will come in time! 
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  • jmo866jmo866 member
    We are still doing the cat nap too. I tried cutting it out last week thinking he was ready, but clearly he was not, and that's OK. I am going to keep offering it until it doesn't work anymore.
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  • AugustaBride04AugustaBride04 member
    My DD just gave up her third nap = catnap at 8 months. My motto is do whatever works!
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  • Galaxy8227Galaxy8227 member
    If DS has a good afternoon nap he won't need the catnap and we'll start bedtime routine around 630-7, if his afternoon nap is short then he'll take his catnap around 530 and we'll do bed around 730-8ish.  We let him decide--I need him up by 6:30 during the week anyway so if he wakes up a bit before that we just have extra time to play before I bring him to daycare.  I would probably feel differently about the wakeup time if I was a SAHM

     

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