Naps??

joyfullyfound · November 2012

Hey girls!

I haven't been able to post really regularly lately, but I have a question... A couple of weeks ago I switched DD from 3 naps a day to 2 naps. She did great at first, and each nap was an hour long for a total of 2 hours worth of naps a day. However the last week she's been fighting me and getting more like half an hour to an hour of naps per day. She's a bit grumpy, but not as terrible as I'd expect, and her night time sleep is suffering a little but it's not too bad.

I was just wondering how everyone else is fairing with naps right now. How many naps does your LO take per day and for how long? Maybe I need to play around with different times for her nap... What time does your LO take theirs??

Thanks :-) Hope you are all doing well!!

countrygrl5533 · November 2012

She sleeps for about an hour-ish (anywhere from 45 min to 90 min) about an hour and a half after waking for the day.

Then she takes about 1.5-2 hr nap midday/early afternoon.

Then on grumpy days, she'll take about a 30 minute nap around 5pm. Bed between 7:30 and 8.

Mrs MoJoRisin · November 2012

DS takes a 45 minute nap 1.5 hrs after waking up for the day, a hour nap around 11, a hour nap around 2, and a cat nap any time after 4:30. I'm really not strict with the times at all, when I see he is tired I put him down.

slyrose123 · November 2012

Wake up 6-7

nap at 9 (1 hour)

nap at 12 (1 hour)

nap at 3 (1 hour)

bed at 6

he might nap a little longer some days.. I feel he is dwindling down to 2 naps a day

wake up 7 - nap at 10 - nap at 2 - bed at 6 (he has only done that a couple of times) naps are longer and he stays up longer between

I never put him on this schedule he put himself on both of these I just kept it up for him until it got routine so I figure the 2 naps a day will just phase into eventually and on his own time.

tardiswho10 · November 2012

We're definitely fighting naps here. He'll whine for 2030 minutes and only sleep for maybe 20 tops. Night time sleep doesn't seem to be an issue thank goodness!.
We're pretty sure his nap issues are related to the three teeth we can see trying to break through at once. Hopefully after they come in we can go back to nice long naps.

JENandJEH · November 2012

We're just recently down to 2 naps a day.

Wake a 7:15

Nap at 9 (sooner if we don't have to take DS1 to preschool)

Up at 10ish

Nap at 12:30

Up at 2ish

Bed between 6:30-7.

caybeh · November 2012

DS takes 1.5-2 hour nap in the morning after 1.5-2 hours from the time he wakes up for the day. Lately he's been taking 1.5 hour nap in the afternoon too, and is usually around 2 hours after he woke up from his morning nap. He's in bed by 7:30 pm and sleeps 10-11 hours.

Last week, he was going 3-4 hours before taking his afternoon nap and was waking up a lot earlier in the morning.

kclg10 · November 2012

Connor wakes up anywhere from 7 to 8am. We play for about 2 hours then he is ready for his first nap. He usually naps about 2 hours. He wakes up, we have lunch then he goes back down about 2 or 3 hours later. Sometimes he will get a 1 hour nap in before dinner but that's only if he is super fussy and nothing is making him happy. He goes to bed between 7:30 and 8pm and sleeps for a good 12 hours.

Wipz · November 2012

I used to have a great sleeper ...now I have the energizer bunny on steroids who finally flakes out when everyone else has to be awake Indifferent

joyfullyfound · November 2012

Cool, thanks you guys! I think I'll maybe try moving her first nap up... it's been about 3 hours after she wakes up lately, but maybe that's too late and she's getting overtired? Most of you seem to put your LO down around 1.5-2.5 hours after they wake up for the day. Hmmm. Thanks again!