https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:40:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1413642 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:34:21 +0000 littlebug 1413642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D has been taking one nap at daycare for months...probably since about 8-9 months. I don't know how they keep him happy and melt-down free, because if he gets up at his normal time at home, he is a disaster by around 10 and usually passes out for about 30-45 minutes. Then he consistently naps from about 1-3 every day. I am not happy about the one-nap thing, and worry (probably ridiculously) that it's contributed to his delays in development. But everything I've read says that babies do most of their growth and development in their sleep, so... It didn't really dawn on me how inappropriate it was for an 8-month old to only have one nap until about a month ago, at which point it was kind of too late to bring it up because he'd be transitioning to the older room at daycare and one nap, anyway. So then of course I'm kicking myself for not thinking about it sooner. Oh well...nothing we can do about it now. Anyway, he goes to bed around 7:30 and is up at 6:30 on the weekdays and anywhere from 8-9 on the weekends. So at least I know he's getting decent sleep at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1410974 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 01:27:05 +0000 birdofafeather 1410974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: R could never be up very long either. i was pretty shocked that she suddenly could go from 2 hours awake in the morning to 4 just like that, but she's done really well! i still think she could go to sleep easily for her morning nap, but she would fight the afternoon nap like crazy and then fight bedtime too! she was on the two nap routine since 7 months, but her awake times were no more than 3 hours tops before the transition to one nap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1335705 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:22:39 +0000 dagret 1335705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we're in the 2-to-1 nap transition. And L is starting full time daycare next week to hopefully make that transition (to just one nap and the next room up) a bit easier. L's schedule right now is most often like @oliviaoblivia's. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1335623 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:01:27 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1335623@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@allison: She's actually doing really well. A friend with a 14 month old is looking after her. The girls seem to be having a blast during the day. And I'm actually liking being back at work more than I expected. I was a mess for my last two weeks of leave. Randomly sobbing throughout the day. It's nice to have that part of my life back though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1335619 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:59:55 +0000 edelweiss 1335619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@allison: we're still at 2 naps, at least on the weekends. at daycare he just gets 1 nap. at home, based on his sleep cues, we put him down about 2 hours after he wakes up (usually a 45-minute nap) and then later in the afternoon for a 1.5 hour nap. although i feel like my LO has usually been slower in transitioning to longer awake periods (i remember people writing about jan '13 LO's staying up for 2 hours at a time, and LO was still pushing 1 1/4 hours). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1335601 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:55:29 +0000 allison 1335601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: That's what Eli was doing, too! Going down easily for the first nap, but skipping the second. Switching to one might be in your near future. It did take about a week (for a friend of mine, it took more like a month... :/) to get that one nap to a decent length. But he does much better going down at night, now that we're only doing one.</p> <p>@oliviaoblivia: poor mama and baby! I hope the work transition is going okay for the both of you. :heart: :heart: :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1335579 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:50:12 +0000 birdofafeather 1335579@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@allison: @oliviaoblivia: we're in the 2 nap to 1 transition i think. some days, she does really well and naps 2 times well and goes to sleep easily. other times, she rocks the 1 nap. the last couple days, she's fought her second nap (but still went to bed easily for the first nap after 2 hours of awake time!) and then had a hard time falling asleep at night. we're traveling next week and i have no idea what naps will be like. after that, i might try to transition her to 1 nap so we have some consistency. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1335535 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:36:10 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1335535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@allison: We are still doing two naps. Occasionally she'll have a one nap day. A typical day is:<br /> up at 7/8<br /> nap at 9:30ish<br /> wake at 11ish<br /> nap at 2ish<br /> wake at 3:30ish<br /> bedtime at 7:30 again -ish. </p> <p>she's been fighting bed time more this week (last night didn't go down until 8:40) but I just started back at work so there has been a bit of upheaval to her little lifestyle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1335520 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:29:22 +0000 allison 1335520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Resurrecting this thread to ask how naps are going with everyone! After a teething bout over Christmas, accompanied with a runny/stuffy nose and major sleep troubles, we have officially moved to one nap a day. After about a week of inconsistent sleep lengths, he seems to have settled in to at least 2 hours, so I'm happy with it. He usually naps from 1-3ish, but today he went down at noon! He's also going to bed around 7:30-8, waking once at 2am to nurse, and waking for the day at 6:30-7. </p> <p>Is this pretty comparable to everyone else? Sometimes I feel like he should be sleeping more at night. Like maybe I should put him down earlier?</p> <p>(I'm also about to post in the Feeding thread about nursing sessions. Trying to keep things organized! But it's related...) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1158566 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:05:50 +0000 dagret 1158566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't want to jinx myself --- but L has only woken up ONCE at night these past 3-4 nights!!! </p> <p>We started CIO when we put him down at night. When we got that under control (might only get a minute or two of whining), I started not going to him when he had his first wakeup of the night. </p> <p>And since he got that under control, he's only been waking at midnight or 1 am. HOLY CRAP. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1141628 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 22:39:59 +0000 birdofafeather 1141628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, we had one of 4 teeth poke through but we're still in the thick of gnarly teething. She's super whiny and clingy, poor girl. DH gave her some hylands tablets when she woke up crying about an hour and a half after she went to bed. She passed right out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1141527 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:45:11 +0000 pinkb 1141527@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dagret: I fell your pain! Abi slept thru the night all the way for the first time in ages on Sunday and now it is hell. I am having such a hard time getting her to go to sleep, she is fighting it so bad. Today for her nap she whined and cried in her bed for 45 minutes until she finally passed out. She had been up from 5:30am till 10am. I went in and she was so tired she was loopy, I had to lay her back down and she was out. If we put her in her crib awake or drowsy she will just sit up and play and whine until she either falls over asleep or we go in and lay her down. For her nap yesterday I had to physically hold her laying down in my arms while she was crying to get her to relax and she immediately passed out for 2 hours. I am use to my snugly baby who happily falls asleep in my arms and then I put her in bed. Wake ups are back to 2 or more a night :( I dont like the night wake ups but I will gladly go back to just those if she will just fall asleep again.</p> <p>And definitely growing, a lot! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1140819 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:21:07 +0000 swurlygurl 1140819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dagret: What a good food eater! We're still not much for solids... she eats 8-10 ice cubes of purees a day, and doesn't show any interest in solid-er food. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1140789 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:10:30 +0000 dagret 1140789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: I'm glad I'm not alone. </p> <p>Yesterday he ate:<br /> 10 oz BM in bottles<br /> breastfeeding x 3<br /> 4 oz baby food puree x2<br /> 4 oz yogurt/kiwi puree<br /> 1/3 c cucumber matchsticks<br /> 1/2 c chicken and noodles leftovers<br /> 1/3 c shredded cheese<br /> 2 oz pork<br /> some carrot and potato<br /> 1 oz noodles<br /> mum-mum<br /> puffs<br /> and then ate pretty much all night for the second night in a row! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1140764 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:03:48 +0000 swurlygurl 1140764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dagret: That sounds a lot like us (minus the nursing). L is eating 40+ ounces a day! Good grief child! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1140067 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:33:41 +0000 dagret 1140067@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I AM IN SLEEP HELL. He was doing much better for a while but he's teething (top gums all swollen) and is in the 37 week wonder week and i think a growth spurt - he'll go down the first time at night just fine, but when he wakes at 10/11, he's a beast to get back down, and as soon as his head hits the mattress he starts crying. He has slept the past two nights ON TOP OF ME EATING ALL NIGHT (and his food consumption is INSANE throughout the day) and wakes at 5:30 (yesterday) and 615 (today) OMG i am so tired I want to die. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1139974 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:10:23 +0000 swurlygurl 1139974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am going to go crazy... I miss my 3-6 month baby that STTN! 6-8 months she woke up once anywhere from 2 am to 4 am. Not my favorite, but I've been dealing. I just made sure to remember to cherish the extra sleepy cuddles. But now she's also waking up at 10/11 which is right after we fall asleep. I don't know where this came from!? She has never ever woken up that early. She'd better be doing some amazing growing... haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1120209 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:25:25 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1120209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: poor R! I hope those teeth pop through soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1120060 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:33:15 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1120060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: ugh! I hope they do too for both of your sakes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1119810 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:12:44 +0000 birdofafeather 1119810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>so we've have two night wake ups for a couple weeks now and i last night i saw four (!!) swollen lumps on the top along with the tips of the white teeth under the surface. she also was running a fever in the middle of the night last night. really hoping these teeth come through soon. they are killing me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1108867 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:34:37 +0000 pinkb 1108867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have had days where Abi takes only 2 naps and it was so much better than 3! But she still consistanly takes 3 mostly crappy naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/4#post-1107975 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:54:52 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1107975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: wow since four months!? I feel like we've been in 2-3 purgatory for a month now. I really prefer two naps to three. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/3#post-1107923 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:42:23 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1107923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: that's exactly what L's naps are like. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/3#post-1107821 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:12:45 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1107821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D is transitioning from 3 naps to 2. When he takes a third, it is always only 30 minutes, almost exactly. His first two naps range from an hour to over two hours each. I would say average is an hour and a half. Sleep is good around these parts! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/3#post-1107793 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:04:30 +0000 swurlygurl 1107793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: L's been doing 2 naps since like 4 months. This past weekend though, due to our schedule she only did 1 nap Sat and Sun (I have no idea what goes on at daycare - it's better for my sanity to not ask), and it was great! She napped longer for the one nap than the two naps combined. She even tolerated the extra awake time in the morning pretty well.<br /> Her two naps lately have been 1 hour each. This weekend her one naps were each 3 hours! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/3#post-1107773 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:58:53 +0000 allison 1107773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went down to two naps a few weeks ago. It's going really well! He's also (finally!) napping in the crib instead of the RnP.</p> <p>Night sleep is still the same. He usually sleeps from 7:30 to 7 or 8, with at least two, usually 3-4 wakeups. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/3#post-1107768 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:57:23 +0000 birdofafeather 1107768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pinkb: aw man! i count any time i have to help her go back to bed as a wakeup. it stinks when you know they are capable of it!(R sleeps better when we're traveling too!)</p> <p>@dagret: bummer! we need to drop ours all the way down too because she's standing up! (it's in the second lowest position, so still safe, but might as well go all the way down!)</p> <p>@swurlygurl: lucky! i keep crossing my fingers that my good little sleeper will return.</p> <p>@oliviaoblivia: that sounds heavenly. R is on a solid two nap routine. usually one 2 hour nap and either an hour or 2 second nap. those naps do help because i can get a lot of work done during that time! so i guess that's a plus. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/3#post-1107696 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:38:03 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1107696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>L is finally back to STTN. It's been three weeks of bliss after two months of at least one motn wakeup. Just in time for the nine month regression. Fingers crossed that she skips that one!</p> <p>She is someone doing two naps sometimes three. What are your LOs naps like? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/3#post-1107644 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:24:32 +0000 swurlygurl 1107644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dagret: We only recently lowered our crib, and thank goodness, because the last week she's started standing up in her crib!!! I probably need to get teething bumpers for the crib now... :/</p> <p>In the last 4 nights, L has slept through the night 3 times! Fingers crossed for a continuation of this pattern! Well, one night she woke up at 4, but I turned her music on and she went right back to sleep without bottle/rocking, so I'm counting it :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-sleep/page/3#post-1107546 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:52:14 +0000 dagret 1107546@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>L is back to 3-ish wakeups per night - but he's gotten a cold so last night was pretty crappy. he woke up twice after about an hour of sleep. DH went in and gave him a sip of water and he went right back to sleep. </p> <p>Also, twice last night i went in to get him and he was sitting up. We've got to adjust the crib ASAP! </p>