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Late day naps

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Anyone else struggle with late day naps? DS takes 4 a day. Usually nap 1 45 mins, naps 2 about 2 hrs ending at 1. Nap 3 around 2:30-3 for 35-45 min and Nap 4 only about 20 mins ending around 5. He's usually screaming by 6 right when I'm trying to get dinner for 19 mo DD. I try to hold him off until 7 for bed. Should I be putting him to bed earlier since his last 2 naps of the day suck? He seriously loses his shit every night right when DH gets home and I'm trying to get dinner. Not sure what to do. I wish he'd go to bed later since MOTN is up around midnight and 4. Not much sleep time for me :-(
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  • JessimaxJessimax member
    DD is a beast starting about 5 also. Doesn't matter how much she slept during the day.
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  • Lindsay808Lindsay808 member
    Midnight and 4 are our MOTN feedings too....normal...
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  • steph1977steph1977 member
    That's usually our roughest time of day also. If you do decide to put him down early, maybe try a dreamfeed around 10. That may eliminate the 12:00 feeding.
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  • fourthnlastfourthnlast member
    Most days, E takes a nap between 5 and 6 for about an hour, otherwise she is a total disaster.
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  • ambarnett1ambarnett1 member
    fourthnlast said:

    Most days, E takes a nap between 5 and 6 for about an hour, otherwise she is a total disaster.

    We get a nap between 5:45 and 6 that lasts for 45 mins. If he's overtired for the bedtime routine our lives are hell.

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  • Yogini6911Yogini6911 member
    Ambarnett1 said:

    fourthnlast said:

    Most days, E takes a nap between 5 and 6 for about an hour, otherwise she is a total disaster.

    We get a nap between 5:45 and 6 that lasts for 45 mins. If he's overtired for the bedtime routine our lives are hell.
    This. The baby is a bear when he's tired. One evening this week he slept from 6-9pm then woke up at 9pm to eat and he went right back to sleep. He slept until 3am and the went back to sleep until 6 after a feeding.

    I let him sleep whenever and never try to keep him awake. I'm FTM so I may be screwing him up so that my life isn't hell but it works for us right now.
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  • MamaFantasticMamaFantastic member
    The later in the day, the shorter/harder/less predictable the naps are. I feel ya! I'm trying to aim for an 8-8:30ish bedtime this week.
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  • LaNorteLaNorte member
    MamaFantastic said:
    The later in the day, the shorter/harder/less predictable the naps are. I feel ya! I'm trying to aim for an 8-8:30ish bedtime this week.

    Same here, we've been doing 9:00 bedtime since he started STTN around 5 weeks, but now he's not taking a late afternoon nap so well anymore and is showing his tired signs earlier. So we're pushing it up to around 8, and he still seems to sleep until about 6 am.
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  • *sparky**sparky* member
    The only place DD will sleep late in the day is in her swing, swaddled, or on me in a carrier. If I can do one of those things with her she will take one good nap at the end of the day. If not the evening is shot.

     

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