https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 28 May 2026 17:02:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486901 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:46:01 +0000 Freckles 486901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: I remember you posting about that a while back. I'd die! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486840 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:17:56 +0000 banana 486840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: Yup, I went to bed at 9 during that phase too. Now I have the opposite problem. I have to wake him up to go to daycare! Otherwise he'd probaby sleep until 9am! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486834 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:16:25 +0000 winniebee 486834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@banana: It's been going on for months - basically since a few wks before daylight savings. I now go to bed at like 9. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486828 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:14:45 +0000 banana 486828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: I'm SOOO not a morning person. My son went through a period of time when he would get up at 6am (for about 2 months) and I was dying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486820 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:09:15 +0000 winniebee 486820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: We start our day between 5-6 pretty much every. single. day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486800 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:03:40 +0000 Freckles 486800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bree72: There was one day where LO napped 1.5 hours, and 2 hours during the day...and she woke up at 5:50am, and refused to go back to sleep. I nursed her and put her back in bed even though she cried and didn't want to sleep. But there was no way i was starting the day at 5:50! </p> <p>@winniebee: @Sammyfab: Mine never slept 18 hours either, and i was always stressed because i felt that it would hinder her development. Hahaha.</p> <p>@mrsjyw: I am soo jealous that you have such a good sleeper so early on! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486559 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:33:56 +0000 winniebee 486559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sammyfab: SAME! I think he's always hovered around 14 or so but now that he's older it's even less. 10-10.5 overnight and 3 hrs during the day (on a good day). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486554 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:32:13 +0000 Sammyfab 486554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: oh, neither did my LO!!! I swear at 2 weeks old he maybe slept 12-13 hours a day. He grew out of the sleepy newborn phase quickly! I just picked a somewhat arbitrary number though. My main point is that after 6+ months babies just don't need as much sleep so we can't expect them to sleep 12 hours at night and take several 2 hour naps in the day. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486538 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:26:12 +0000 erwoo 486538@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, I usually limit naps so we can stay on schedule. It also makes going out for meals easier for us as well. My oldest used to take 2-3 hour naps twice a day! If we didn't wake him most time he would keep sleeping. He sometimes napped for 4 hours. I would get so bored of waiting believe it or not! Now with my second, he's a different story. Mornings hell nap about 1 hour and afternoons he won't give me any more than 2; and most days it's more like 1.5 hours. It's okay b/c he's a happy baby (always smiling) so I like to see him awake. Haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486528 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:23:24 +0000 winniebee 486528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sammyfab: I don't think my child has ever slept 18 hours in a day his whole life. Even as a newborn, it was mayyyybe 15. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486526 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:23:19 +0000 heffalump 486526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. She's always been a good night time sleeper, and not always the best napper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486520 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:21:59 +0000 Sammyfab 486520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, definitely!! I limit his first nap to 1.5 hours and total day sleep to 2.75-3 hours. I also don't let him nap past 4:30-ish. He has never preferred his nap sleep to his night sleep so I don't have to limit him too often...he limits himself :).</p> <p>Also, the sleep begets sleep thing doesn't apply the same after a certain point (not totally sure when) where most babies just can't be expected to sleep 18 hours a day like they did as newborns. Eventually you do have to manage their sleep so they are getting enough during the day to tide them over until night...where sleep is the most restorative. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486491 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:13:35 +0000 mrsjyw 486491@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: yup! just woke up LO (~7 weeks) from his almost 3 hour nap! I usually wait for a stir and pick him up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486394 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:37:44 +0000 littlek 486394@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hahaha.. i wish we had this problem... LO is not a good napper.. we are nap training now.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486391 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:37:28 +0000 mamabolt 486391@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, don't really have this problem, LO is a crap napper. The only thing I do is wake her up by 6:30ish so she will go to bed at 8. This sucks though, because she often falls asleep on the way home from daycare so I know she's exhausted and I have to choose between a cranky overtired baby until bedtime or one that won't go to bed easily. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486378 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:33:02 +0000 winniebee 486378@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't let him sleep past 5 pm, but that's about it. Bedtime is 7 (or 7:30 if he sleeps right up until 5, which is rare). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486360 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:26:06 +0000 Mrs. Bee 486360@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yup we've almost always had to do this. i hate waking olive up from her naps, but if i let her nap as long as she wanted, her bedtime would be really late and we'd have no schedule. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486341 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:21:29 +0000 mediagirl 486341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have never had this problem......LOL! We won't let her nap past 5:30pm, though. She has a 7pm bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486336 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:20:25 +0000 BananaPancakes 486336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just don't let him sleep later than 4pm. But it does seem like if he sleep better at night if he only naps an hour both times. He'll usually sleep 1.5-2 hrs each, but I swear it makes his nighttime sleep worse. Total opposite of what the books say. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486213 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:43:03 +0000 keiki_mama 486213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not too much. LO naps twice a day and we wake up him no later than 5 PM for this second nap so he is able to sleep at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486209 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:42:01 +0000 buffalove 486209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wish! My LO catnaps and the more/longer naps he gets, the better he seems to sleep at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486188 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:35:58 +0000 lavender 486188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wake up LO by 5 pm usually if she takes a longer pm nap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486184 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:34:18 +0000 loveisstrange 486184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Her afternoon one is always the longer nap and I do wake her up if she sleeps past a certain time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486157 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:25:18 +0000 hilsy85 486157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't let him go more than 4 hours between daytime feedings, so the longest nap he could take during the day would be 3 hours but its usually 2.5. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486153 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:24:18 +0000 autumnlove 486153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO doesn't nap often so I let her sleep as long as she wants when she naps. It doesn't affect her night sleeping! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-limit-naps-so-your-lo-will-sleep-longer-at-night#post-486134 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:22:29 +0000 Freckles 486134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As much as i LOVE it when LO naps for a long time, i need be cognizant of the fact that long morning naps will screw up her schedule, and long naps overall will have her wake up WAY too early for my liking.</p> <p>Do you limit LO's naps? </p>