https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:18:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879271 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:50:13 +0000 ALV91711 2879271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@muffinsmuffins: we get home tomorrow and once we are home a couple days I’m going to work on extending his wake time. In the last couple days I can tell he needs to sleep longer as after his morning nap he isn’t staying awake for very long before napping again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879170 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:54:37 +0000 muffinsmuffins 2879170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ALV91711: ugh I know it was so annoying on the 4 naps. You could maybe even try 5-10 min extra awake over a week or two and if he seems tired, put him earlier, if not, push it when you can. Like I said, we would often need to be out of the house or I would have to carry him around or be more actively engaging in things with him to push it, but after a couple weeks it evened out and he’s fine now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879148 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 07:50:10 +0000 ALV91711 2879148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LadyDi: thanks. Sounds like he just may need some more time to get there. </p> <p>@muffinsmuffins: he definitely can’t make 2+ hours yet. Hopefully soon, all these naps are tiring me out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879097 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:19:49 +0000 muffinsmuffins 2879097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ALV91711: we are regularly at 2.5 hrs now. Sometimes 2:45 ish if we are out or distracted and forget. He does usually get cranky so that warns us but after about a week of pushing past 2 hrs, he’s been able to adapt. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879080 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:54:24 +0000 LadyDi 2879080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son was around 8 months when he went from 3 to 2 naps. I think this was on the early side, but he consolidated naps basically on his own. I started noticing that one nap a day was getting VERY long (I didn't wake him up from naps) and it was getting hard to get three naps into a day. We struggled at bed time for about a week because I was extending his wake time between naps and I think he was overtired. In retrospect I probably should have moved his bed time up a bit, but it took about a week to get through it and then he was fine. </p> <p>FWIW, he also dropped to one nap at 11 months completely on his own too. Literally just refused to nap in the morning one day out of the blue and never went back, so that might just be his personality. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879053 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 10:16:27 +0000 ALV91711 2879053@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@muffinsmuffins: How long are his awake times? I’ve been hoping for a month now that he’d combine a couple naps and go to three. It is good to hear it is something that he could make happen on his own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879048 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 09:13:13 +0000 muffinsmuffins 2879048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We kind of had to force the awake times to get to 3 naps. He seemed better/distracted when we were out and about than just hanging at home. We’ve done the same routine for a long while and he was cat napping 4x too up until maybe 2-3 weeks ago when he just started extending the naps himself. Now we usually get 1.5-2 hrs in the morning and aft, maybe a 30 min later if he needs it, but we are thinking he might be able to get to 2 depending on the afternoon timing. So all that to say is I don’t think it was anything we did besides force a little longer awake times and time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879032 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:46:40 +0000 ALV91711 2879032@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: sometimes being the youngest is hard! DS has wake times of 1.5-2 hours max. I think he’d be able to stay awake longer if his naps we’re better. </p> <p>We aren’t quite to STTN. We were at 2 wake ups for nursing but then we have been away for a week and I’m sharing a room with both kids. Sleep has been all over the place but naps are still consistent. Going to retrain for bright sleep when we are home this week and hope there might be some good ideas and I can work on day sleep at the same time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879029 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:09:54 +0000 bhbee 2879029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I’m interested to hear what others say. My almost 8mo takes 3 for sure and has definitely gotten better at putting sleep together, so maybe could do two in an ideal world, but I have to wake her up for big kid stuff. But I’m still not sure it would work because her awake time isn’t long enough yet, often 2 hours max. I do think STTN (which just came together this month) has helped her daytime sleep - she’s just learned to deal with little wakeups on her own. So all that says to me time passing is a factor (and different for each baby) but probably other factors too. </p> <p>My first was on two naps at this age. She got up around 7, slept 9:30-11, 2:30-4, bed at 8. No way this baby could handle that yet even though I think total nap time is about the same, she needs shorter awake intervals. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-transition-to-2-naps#post-2879026 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:34:08 +0000 ALV91711 2879026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS just turned 7 months and is a major catnapper. He takes 3-4 40 min naps a day. Is there a trick to get him to extend his naps and only take 2? Or is this something that will come with age?</p> <p>We have to leave the house at 11:30 &amp; 2:30 to drop off/pick up big brother from school. He goes to bed at 6pm with two wake ups and gets up 5:30/6am. If he only has 3 naps he goes to bed early. </p>