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Night sleep for LO 1 at 8 weeks, naps at 13-14 months!

Night and naps very early for LO 2 at 6 weeks. No real regressions until 11 months and at almost 2 we have the occasional wake up at night....2-3 times a month.

Night sleep has been kind of predictable for awhile, but that's because we have to get him up at a certain time to go to the babysitters. So he only gets to 'sleep in' twice a week and now he's so used to that schedule he doesn't really do it.

My babysitter just got him on a day schedule in the past two weeks. He's 7 months. He wakes around 6am, his first nap is still an hour or an hour and a half later depending on when he woke up. Then his second and third naps are at 10, and 2.

For us, predictability happened somewhere around 9 months when we dropped from 3 naps to 2. At that point, he would become very fussy after 3 hours of awake time so we just started putting him down for a nap at the 3 hour mark. Now at 14.5 months, he's transitioning to 1 nap and it's more unpredictable again.

Never. LO1 has never had a predictable nap or nighttime sleep schedule. In fact she stopped napping altogether at 17 months. And she has never slept longer than 9 hours at night. Usually it's 8 hours with at least 1-3 wakeups. She has crazy low sleep needs. I'm a tired mama.

With my first, she had a lot of predictability from 6-months on but with minor regressions (that I'm now thinking were related to wonder week stuff). LO #2 is less predictable but I'm also seeing a trend as I compare notes! He is in a leap right now and is having the same weird sleep stuff my daughter had at this exact point in time (I keep a "one line a day" journal for both kids). This gives me great hope as my daughter is an excellent sleeper, but she too had weird phases. Hang in there, I'm also wishing for better sleep over here! One night it's great and then the next is nuts!

Naps consolidated around 6 months with no help from me. It was awesome!

@birdofafeather: Thank you I have another LO who is 3 months old and while it's still too early to figure out what her schedule is she definitely sleeps better than her big sister. So at least I have that going for me.

There's been times of predictability, but nothing constant. Naps got predicatable after 6 months. We dropped down to 2, so she was tired for both of them. Daycare also forced an early transition to 1 nap at 13 months, so that also meant she was tired for it and always slept. Night sleep has never been predictable. Right now she's STTN since 18 mo (so one month), but that's only 75% of the time and goes out the window when she has a cold. Or is teething. Or has a sleep regression. So, you know, most of the time!

My daughter is 7.5 months and I'd say it's just in the last couple of weeks that her sleep schedule has gotten predictable (although not preferable lol). She wakes up at 7:30am, has a nap between 11am and 1pm, then a power nap around 5 for 20 minutes and is in bed by 8:30 (although she still wakes up every 2 hours...).

We only got onto a predictable nap schedule when she went down to two naps, and even then, it took a few months for the timing to settle down. I think it was between 9 and 12 months. That was also when she STTN (around 10 months).

A has pretty much in a routine now at 3.5 months. She's also good at sleeping anywhere so naps are easy.