How many naps?

Telly21182 · June 2012

How many naps is LO taking now? DC is starting to push for 1-nap a day. However the main teacher in his room was saying that if he's exhausted and needs a nap he will be able to nap (which I was happy to hear). She thinks it will be beneficial for him, because at DC he doesn't go down for his morning nap early enough to take a decently timed afternoon nap. He did really well yesterday staying up until noon, and then a 2 hour and 15 minute nap. He was up until bed time too (though he did pass out for a few minutes while drinking his bottle of half formula/half milk!) and actually went to bed at a decent time (8:15).

While I will miss two naps a day, I will love him going back to bed around 8/8:30 again if that's the case! This going to bed at 9:30/10 has been rough on us. OUr house mainly. My normal routine was to get him to bed then I'd clean one room a night and then take my shower. Lately he's been going to bed too late for me to clean at night.

KYBABY2011 · June 2012

DS is still at 2 naps. I've tried a couple of times for one nap, and he NEEDS that extra nap.

rlmanning · June 2012

Bay has been a 1 time a day napper for awhile now. She usually wakes up around 7am, takes a nap around 11am or 11:30am and wakes up around 2pm or 2:30pm then goes to bed around 8pm or 8:15pm.

MommaG123 · June 2012

C still takes 2 the majority of the time. Some days she will not nap until a little later and it will last 2-3 hours and those days she usually only has one.

mamarazzi528 · June 2012

Depends on the day for us:

She usually does 2 naps a day at daycare now. Some days she'll only get 1 nap there and she comes home A MESS. We can barely get through dinner and have to put her to bed at 6:30 on those days!

My mom watches her 2 days a week and on those days she usually takes 3 extra long naps. haha. Catching up from the missed sleep on daycare days!

When she's home with us on the weekends it's usually 2 longer naps.

cmread · June 2012

Joey takes 2 naps a day. Two breaks makes it nice for me, but I think 1 nap a day will make it much easier to make plans during our day.

wendy46001 · June 2012

She takes two catnaps. I wish i had a real napper. Around 10am she'll sleep for 15 to 20min and then again around 3pm. Never longer than 30min each...boo. Her daycare teacher tried for weeks to get her to sleep longer but she just doesn?t want to, so its a long Bell filled day!

Telly21182 · June 2012

rlmanning:
Bay has been a 1 time a day napper for awhile now. She usually wakes up around 7am, takes a nap around 11am or 11:30am and wakes up around 2pm or 2:30pm then goes to bed around 8pm or 8:15pm.

I would LOVE this schedule!!!

jcsumm0 · June 2012

Telly21182:

rlmanning:
Bay has been a 1 time a day napper for awhile now. She usually wakes up around 7am, takes a nap around 11am or 11:30am and wakes up around 2pm or 2:30pm then goes to bed around 8pm or 8:15pm.

I would LOVE this schedule!!!

Yeah, that sounds amazing!

We are still doing 2 naps. I am starting to wonder if we'll be transitioning soon. Sometimes she takes 2 good naps (yesterday she napped for a total of 4 hours!) and other days she fights them both (Monday she napped for about an hour total). So who knows!

ShandaB · June 2012

We're just starting to transition to 1 consistent nap each day. He had been taking a 20-30 minute nap around 9am (he wakes at 5:30am) then another nap 12-2ish. The DC transitions to the toddler room at 1year 6months and they only take one nap each day so the infant room will start to get them to one nap once they turn one year. DS will also occasionally take a nap 4:30-5pm then he's down for the night around 7:30pm.

courtneybrooke921 · June 2012

Layla still takes two naps a day and needs them - she naps 3 hours after she wakes up, without fail.

Normal day (lately...)

Wake up 6:30 AM.

Nap 9:30 - 10:30 AM.

Nap 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM.

Bed 7:00 PM.

rlmanning · June 2012

jcsumm0:
Telly21182:

rlmanning:
Bay has been a 1 time a day napper for awhile now. She usually wakes up around 7am, takes a nap around 11am or 11:30am and wakes up around 2pm or 2:30pm then goes to bed around 8pm or 8:15pm.

I would LOVE this schedule!!!

Yeah, that sounds amazing!

We are still doing 2 naps. I am starting to wonder if we'll be transitioning soon. Sometimes she takes 2 good naps (yesterday she napped for a total of 4 hours!) and other days she fights them both (Monday she napped for about an hour total). So who knows!

Yea, we definitely got lucky with Bay! She is a sleeper and has been since day 1. Even when she is teething she rarely wakes up at night. I really never enforced a schedule with her, I just let her put herself on a schedule and so far it is working for us.

Telly21182 · June 2012

courtneybrooke921:
Layla still takes two naps a day and needs them - she naps 3 hours after she wakes up, without fail.

Normal day (lately...)

Wake up 6:30 AM.

Nap 9:30 - 10:30 AM.

Nap 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM.

Bed 7:00 PM.

With us he seems to need to sleep 3 hours after waking, but I think it's because we're not as fun as DC! Not that we don't entertain him, but he's got friends at school!

Syncronicity09 · June 2012

rlmanning:
Bay has been a 1 time a day napper for awhile now. She usually wakes up around 7am, takes a nap around 11am or 11:30am and wakes up around 2pm or 2:30pm then goes to bed around 8pm or 8:15pm.

Ditto all of this, except he naps around noon.

OpheliaChem · June 2012

KYBABY2011:
DS is still at 2 naps. I've tried a couple of times for one nap, and he NEEDS that extra nap.

This is us. I tried for one nap yesterday. It was a disaster! She screamed for 20 min straight until she passed out....obviously over-tired. Right now we are taking a nap around 10:30 and then if she needs it, around 2 or 3. When I go back to work in late-August, her new daycare will put her down for a nap around 12:30 so we need to push her first nap back until then at some point in the summer...not looking forward to it! I'm glad your LO is taking one a day! That's awesome!

RingOfFire11 · June 2012

DD takes 2 naps. She's not showing any signs of dropping 1 either.

SarahKate31 · June 2012

DS has always been an inconsistent napper, but he started to drop down to 1 nap a couple months ago. Now he usually takes 1 nap around mid-day that is hopefully 1.5-2 hours long. The length varies though (anywhere from 30 mins-3 hours).

Spartanmama722 · June 2012

Ev is still taking two but I think I'm going to have to move him down to one soon. He's been shortening his long morning nap from 2 hours to 1, and his afternoon nap is barely an hour. I'm thinking it's time to push back him back to one nap around lunchtime. My mom also depressed me yesterday by telling me that all 4 of us kids stopped napping really early, so I fear that may be what's happening here.

march2008 · June 2012

She's been going back and forth between one or two naps a day for a couple of months. She'll go a few weeks with 2 naps, then a week with 1 nap in the mid-day, and then back to 2 again. It makes a little hard to play things because she naps so much better in her crib than on the go.

egpitt22 · June 2012

Liam has been doing one nap at daycare consistently for about 2 weeks now, it's usually 2.5-3 hours. But I guess at home we're just not as exciting, because he's always ready for a morning one there by 9am! So on the weekends, he usually takes a cat nap in the morning, about 45 minutes, then another one around 1pm, which is usually about 1.5 hours.

I'm SO ready for him to move to one nap, I find the 2 nap thing to be a pain to schedule things around!

pmpkn219 · June 2012

Almost always 2 one home days, 1 on DC days (sometimes with a 2nd 20-30 min catnap)

By 14-15 months they encourage a single nap 12:30-2:30ish, I am anxious to see how he makes that transition.

frugalwife · June 2012

I have a great napper/sleeper. Usually we're up at 7:30, nap from 9-10:30/11 and then another nap from 1:30-3 and then bed at 7-7:30. So usually 12 hours at night and a combined 3-4 during the day.