https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:44:36 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-3-4-nap-schedule-questions#post-2574573 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:10:39 +0000 cascademom 2574573@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@peaches1038: He'll be 13 months old in a few days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-3-4-nap-schedule-questions#post-2574554 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:57:41 +0000 alphagam84 2574554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do that schedule but it's hard with daycare as her 2 hour awake time is generally when she's in the car so she falls asleep for 10 mins then wakes up and it throws off her naps. It works really well on the weekends though. And she doesn't nap great at daycare. I think there's too much going on and it's too bright. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-3-4-nap-schedule-questions#post-2574549 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:54:51 +0000 peaches1038 2574549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cascademom: how old is your LO? I figured that daycare will try but not always be successful with the naps. So much going on there</p> <p>@BabyTsMom: thanks for the insight! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-3-4-nap-schedule-questions#post-2574539 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:51:43 +0000 BabyTsMom 2574539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started it around 7 months. Gradually his awake times increased, so it became something like 2.5-3.5-4, then 3-3-4, etc. He dropped to one nap at 13-14 months. Can't comment on the daycare question though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-3-4-nap-schedule-questions#post-2574512 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:24:55 +0000 cascademom 2574512@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both of our kids are in daycare. Our youngest is still on 2-3-4. At daycare, they work on the first nap. Sometimes it doesn't stick. Yesterday, he wanted to play and not sleep. He managed to get an afternoon nap. I don't think that he's ready for one nap yet though. It's hit or miss for us at the daycare for 2-3-4. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-3-4-nap-schedule-questions#post-2574484 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:03:37 +0000 peaches1038 2574484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just started the 2-3-4 nap schedule with our 7.5 month old DSon Tuesday. So far, it's been working beautifully. We went from 4, 30 min naps per day and 2-4+ nightly wakeups to 2, 1-2 hour naps and waking 1x/night. I'm shocked and knocking on all the wood I can find that this will continue. I have two questions regarding this schedule.<br /> 1. How long did you follow the schedule? How did you know it was time to adjust it?</p> <p>2. If your LO is/was in daycare, were they able to stick to the schedule? Right now, his wake up times are variable, which makes his nap times variable. He's at home with a nanny for the summer, so it's easy for her to put him down at 8:32 or whatever random time is 2 hours after he woke up. I'm a little nervous for the transition back to daycare in August. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-nap-schedule-feeding-schedule#post-253933 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:22:50 +0000 BabyBruins 253933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My little guy is 7 months and we have been on 2 naps for about 3 weeks now.<br /> 6:00 out of crib (sometimes he is awake at 5:30)<br /> 6:15 nursing<br /> 8:00 solids<br /> 8:50 bottle<br /> 9:00-10:30 nap #1<br /> 11:30 solids<br /> 2:30 nursing or bottle of BM (pump if at work)<br /> 3:00-4:00/4:30 nap#2<br /> Bottle at wake up<br /> 6:00 solids<br /> 6:30 nursing/bed (usually falls asleep while nursing)<br /> 10:30 dream feed (we have done this since 2.5 months and are scared he won't sleep through the night anymore if we take it away) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-nap-schedule-feeding-schedule#post-253866 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:39:54 +0000 irene 253866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: My question is, how do you do 2 meals, 5 nursing/bottle sessions, with the 2-3-4 nap schedule? </p> <p>Today it went like this:<br /> 7am breastfeed<br /> 745a breakfast<br /> 930a nap (40 mins)<br /> 11a bottle after great struggle (4 oz)<br /> 12:15p put him down but he won't go down<br /> 12:45p finally went down after white noise.</p> <p>*this nap usually lasts for 1.5-2 hours but since his last feed was so long ago, he was only able to nap for 1 hour)</p> <p>2p bottle 2 (4 oz)<br /> 4p bottle 3 (2 oz)<br /> 4:15p dinner<br /> 6:45p breastfeeding<br /> 7:15p asleep</p> <p>This works but doesn't quite work..... He used to pass out on his own for his naps but now it just feels so unnatural that we have to force him to nap. Then, his usual 1pm feed is pushed to 2pm, leaving only 2 hours room to the next feeding at 4pm (which used to be 3:30p) so he eats less. I am skeptical about feeding him later than that because then he wouldn't feed well at 7pm and he'd usually pass out by then.</p> <p>This all suddenly happened last Sunday.... what's up with that...! I swear he was still doing 3 naps fine last Saturday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-nap-schedule-feeding-schedule#post-253839 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:28:20 +0000 Mrs. Bee 253839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@irene: we weren't doing 3 meals a day until olive was 9 months. at 6 months, you don't need to do more than 1-2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-nap-schedule-feeding-schedule#post-253812 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:12:28 +0000 irene 253812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: Thanks for the info!</p> <p>Did the 4-feed @ day affect your supply? And are you doing 3 solids a day at 6 months or is this a schedule when you LO is a bit older?</p> <p>I am not sure if I am comfortable with switching to 4-feed a day yet because of weight gaining issues. then my supply seems to be tanking.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-nap-schedule-feeding-schedule#post-253144 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:56:10 +0000 sandy 253144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It definitely sounds like he is ready for 2 naps...my LO did the same thing when she was ready to transition from 3 to 2 naps...she would basically not take her second nap...just roll around and kind of put her head down, but not sleep a good stretch. Once we moved to 2 naps, she is sleeping great again for her naps (2-2.5 hrs)</p> <p>Here is this post about 2 nap schedules</p> <p><a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babies-on-two-naps-whats-your-schedule" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babies-on-two-naps-whats-your-schedule</a></p> <p>and here is another about feeding</p> <p><a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-babies-on-2-naps-when-do-you-nurse" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-babies-on-2-naps-when-do-you-nurse</a></p> <p>Here is my feeding schedule</p> <p>1st nursing - at wake up (followed by solids about 30 minutes after)<br /> 2nd nursing - after first nap (followed by solids about an hour later)<br /> 3rd nursing - after second nap (followed by solids an hour later)<br /> 4th nursing - at bedtime</p> <p>And I will say I was scared to move to 2 naps and cut out a nursing session, but it was no problem...she started nursing longer and eating more solids on the 2 nap schedule </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/2-nap-schedule-feeding-schedule#post-253113 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:28:01 +0000 irene 253113@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 6+ months and all of a sudden, starting last Sunday, he decided he does not get tired anymore and won't go down on his normal 11:30am nap. We pushed it further and further out, and he still wasn't napping until we put the white noise on (normally he passes out on his own). </p> <p>I think we are going to be approaching the 2-3-4 nap schedule, but how does the feeding fit into all this? Solids and all?</p> <p>Here is what we currently have that is still changing:</p> <p>7am breastfeed<br /> 745am breakfast<br /> 930am-10:15am nap 1<br /> 10:45, or even 11am bottle 1</p> <p>???? nap 2<br /> (it used to be 11:30am. he normally naps 1.5 hours, not sure anymore)</p> <p>1:45pm bottle 2</p> <p>(there used to be a 3:00pm nap, nowadays we don't know when to put him down or if we should put him down)</p> <p>3:45pm bottle 3<br /> 4:00pm dinner<br /> 6:45pm breastfeed (usually passed out)<br /> 7:15pm bedtime </p> <p>Any suggestions on what we should do to modify this?</p> <p>How is your 2-nap schedule looking like combined with the feeding schedule? </p>