https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:50:49 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-435320 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:06:42 +0000 mamajaja 435320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>wow, sounds exactly like what's going on with my LO. She's 7 months and just recently started taking longer naps here and there. And the past 2 days she's been only sleeping for 15-20 min for her first nap.</p> <p>Her night sleep sounds exactly the same as your LO too, does your LO fall asleep on her own? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-434660 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:10:55 +0000 winniebee 434660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: Same, Tyler used to take 4-5 thirty minute naps. Now he's taking 2-3 naps usually of an hour in length, sometimes longer! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-434649 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:06:15 +0000 winniebee 434649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jennylynn: I know, I'm surprised he can do it and sleep well at night! It started because group nap at daycare is 1-3 and he usually sleeps 1-3.....and then won't nap after that at daycare since we don't nap him after 5. He gets a little fussy between 6-6:30 but once we start bedtime routine it's fine. He's almost 7 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-434635 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:02:00 +0000 Mrs. Bee 434635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>olive dropped to 2 naps at 8 months after we nap trained and her naps got longer. before she was taking cat naps and needed 3 even 4 naps a day. sounds like your lo is at a good time and age to drop to 2 naps. charlie dropped to 2 naps at 9 months too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-434634 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:01:42 +0000 jennylynn 434634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: wow that's a long stretch! DST messed up our schedule for a couple of weeks, so she was having trouble making it until her 7 p bedtime. Now that she's adjusted, maybe a longer before bed waketime would be good. I have a four day weekend this week, so I think I may give 2 naps a shot! I'm nervous. I don't know how to initiate it or what to expect! Any tips? :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-434615 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:51:46 +0000 winniebee 434615@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jennylynn: woah, that's awesome! maybe she only needs 2 naps then? i find that my son now does best with a longer stretch before bedtime (of 3 hours) and he does really well with 4 hours. His bedtime is also 7 and at daycare he is up from his last nap no later than 3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-434554 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:16:24 +0000 jennylynn 434554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: I guess I haven't really paid attention to the total amount of sleep in 24 hours. She usually sleeps about 12 hours a night and *was* napping between 1 1/2-2 hours a day. Now that her naps have been getting longer, she's napping anywhere from 2-4 hours a day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-434405 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:05:08 +0000 winniebee 434405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have found that when healthy, my son needs just a certain amount of sleep daily. He only sleeps 10 hours overnight and is best with 3 hours worth of naps during the day. If he sleeps more than 10 hours overnight (rare) he naps less. If he gets those 3 hours from 2 naps, he doesn't have a 3rd. Most babies get more sleep, but he just never has slept more than 13-14 hours in a 24 hour period. </p> <p>Have you seen a pattern in how much sleep your LO gets over a 24 hour period? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-434404 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:04:51 +0000 prettylizy 434404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD started with a schedule around 7ish months with two naps. Before that there was no real schedule to speak of. </p> <p>Current (and has been this way for about 2 months now)</p> <p>Wake- 7:30am. Nurse, eat, play<br /> Nap 1- Starts between 9:30-10 goes until 12 ish<br /> Wakes up to nurse, eat, play etc<br /> Nap 2- 3pm-5pm give or take 30 mins on either side<br /> Wakes up to play, eat dinner, play more, bath, nurse<br /> Bed 7:30 to 8pm, Sleeps through the night. </p> <p>Hope that helps! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-know-when-baby-is-ready-to-drop-from-3-naps-to-2#post-434392 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:00:13 +0000 jennylynn 434392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 8 month old, and has routinely been taking 3 3o-45 minute naps since she was about 4 months old. She's never really been a good napper, but she'd occasionally take a random 1 hour+ nap here and there. Well for the past week-week 1/2 she's been taking at least one 1 hour or longer nap a day, sometimes 2. She even took an unheard of 2 hour morning nap one day this week! She hasn't established a predictable nap schedule yet, so it's still kind of a guessing game with which nap will be the long one, or how long they will be. But I feel like since she's started taking longer naps, that it's been a little bit more difficult to get her to bed at night, and she's seems to be in a pretty light, restless sleep for the first couple of hours. Most nights she wakes back up an average of 1-3 times shortly after going to bed for the night, before finally staying asleep (her bedtime is 7). Does this mean it's getting time to drop a nap? What is the smoothest way to transition? </p>