My LO is 5mo and still has a max awake time of 1.5 hours. A lot of times she only makes it an hour. I'm really looking forward to her regularly doing 2-2.5 hr stretches so that we can move down to 3 naps/day.
Just curious when your LO started stretching their awake time!
grapefruit / 4311 posts
F usually stays awake 2-3 hours at a time at just over 3mo - I must be doing something wrong 
blogger / coconut / 8306 posts
Both my kids were awake for 2-3 hours or more by 6-7 weeks!
pomegranate / 3565 posts
DS1 - two or three weeks? He never was a sleepy baby.
DS2 - 2 months, maybe?
grape / 84 posts
D has about a 2 hr awake time and has since about 4 months. That said, she regularly stays up for 2+, 3, 4, or sometimes even 5 hrs in the afternoon because she is a terrible napper in the afternoon. I am looking forward to the development of a real afternoon nap and a shift to a predictable 2 or 3 nap schedule.
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
@runnerd: what? No way! Every baby is different, you're doing great mama!
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
Happily? 6 ish months. Previous to that we were in a sleep regression so she would be awake but we would both be pissed about it. She definitely needed to be sleeping but wasnt.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
Just before 6 months. It coincided with her starting to take decent naps rather than 35 min crap naps.
coffee bean / 42 posts
Ha- my ds is pretty much awake all day at daycare, minus two 20 min catnaps! He's 18 weeks. Not sure how he can keep himself together!
squash / 13764 posts
Not til maybe 7 months? He had a 45 min-90 min awake period for a looong time.
papaya / 10343 posts
@ShootingStar: 2-3-4 = 2 naps right? I think that is a pipe dream for us for a long time. Right now my LO can't get by with less than 4 and she's 5.5 mo! Right now her awake times are generally 1 hour after wakeup, 1.5 hrs after naps 1-3, and 45-60min after nap 4 before bed! She's ridic. 
If I could get 2 hour awake periods consistently I could move her to 3 naps and actually leave my house other than to go to target or the grocery store-- glorious! hah
ETA: My LO's need for sleep does not actually mean she comes by it easily of course! Right now she's requiring I hold her for all naps, the whole nap. Which means I spend an obscene amount of time sitting on my ass in the glider in our bedroom reading my kindle.
coconut / 8472 posts
@Mae: You might be surprised :). In maybe a month or so she'll may start consolidating naps (meaning they'll get longer). Once her naps are longer and more restorative she may be able to stretch out her wake times a little. We found that once D had better sleep during the day he could skip that last evening nap. Then voila, 2 naps.
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