https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:20:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337709 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:21:36 +0000 lemondrop 1337709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but once we dropped a nap, the remaining nap/naps got longer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337696 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:16:35 +0000 illumina 1337696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For S, I don't think night sleep and naps relate at all. She sleeps fine at night but naps are inconsistent...we have spells where she'll do 30-45min naps throughout the day and weeks where she'll take longer 1.5-2hr naps. There doesn't appear to be a reason for it other than it's some developmental thing where she's not as settled when she's working through something. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337688 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:12:52 +0000 Foodnerd81 1337688@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: c will be 6 months at the end of this month. I am trying to lengthen her wake times. I'm so used to going to put her down at the first sign of tiredness, but she's getting a little old for that now, right? I need to do some 5-9 month sleep research I guess. </p> <p>On the plus side- I won the battle this morning. She fussed for 20 full minutes but didn't cry, went back to sleep for another hour and a half almost! So she slept about two hours and woke up totally rested and happy. I think I need to start leaving her longer, I usually just wait five or ten minutes and get her. (Unless she is really crying but she doesn't usually wake up in a full cry). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337587 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:34:29 +0000 Ra 1337587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: B is 7 months! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337581 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:31:24 +0000 abbylyn 1337581@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's what happened when Lucy started sleeping 5 hour stretches at night about 4 weeks ago. She won't nap more than 45 minutes at a time. And now her night sleep is back to crap (2-3 hour stretches) and she STILL won't take longer naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337544 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:08:08 +0000 immabeetoo 1337544@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: @rahlyrah: aren't they both getting close to 6 months? My LO dropped the third nap by 6 months and did a 2 3 4 schedule </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337539 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:00:07 +0000 Ra 1337539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You just described my LO. He catnaps during the day and rarely has naps that last more than 30-40 minutes. Sometimes he skips a third nap altogether. At night he sleeps from 7-5:30 without any wake ups (usually) and then he eats and goes back down until 7-8. </p> <p>I hate that he is such a horrible napper but I'll take it for good sleep at night! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337523 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:41:01 +0000 Sammyfab 1337523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oftentimes more consolidated night sleep (which you're getting...yay!!) means your LO is better rested and probably needs more waketime before her first nap. Try stretching her maybe 15 minutes. If she's not tired enough to sleep longer than one sleep cycle then you risk getting in an undertired-overtired loop.</p> <p>Getting long stretches of sleep is way more restful than clocking in lots of time overnight with multiple wake ups :happy: . </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337446 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:47:42 +0000 Foodnerd81 1337446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I should point out that I do prefer this to getting up three times a night!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/longer-night-stretches-shorter-naps#post-1337443 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:46:56 +0000 Foodnerd81 1337443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>C is finally having some better, longer stretches of sleep at night- 6 or 7 hours for the first stretch has been happening more often, which is great. But now her naps are getting shorter. She used to do 1.5 - 2 hour naps morning and afternoon then a shorter one (1 sleep cycle) in the later afternoon. Now she's waking up in under an hour as often as not. </p> <p>Her total overnight sleep isn't really going up, she's just not waking up to eat as often. Anyone else had this happen? 45 minutes is not a long enough nap, especially since she refuses to take more than 3 naps a day no matter how short they are. </p> <p>Currently having a battle if wills- she's fussing but not crying after waking up at the 40 minute mark and I'm hoping, but not expecting, for her to go back to sleep. </p>