https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 13 May 2026 22:55:37 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1378004 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:23:29 +0000 Alivoo01 1378004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is the king of powernaps! He can nap for 15 minutes and you would have thought he napped for hours based on his demeanor!! This is kind of a good and bad thing for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377801 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:39:56 +0000 shopaholic 1377801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! Mine too! Never seems to meet the recommended since she was a newborn! I've only recently been able to get more consistent 1hr naps (but still this weekend we dealt with 3 - 30 min naps). 12hrs at night is a dream once in a blue moon. The ped even finally conceded at our 9 month appt. that she might be one of the ones that just doesn't need that much sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377686 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:43:28 +0000 tinypiglet 1377686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me too, me too! CJ is 7 months and sleeps about 11 hours a night If we're lucky she'll sleep for 90 minutes (two 45 minute naps) at daycare. Usually it's less than that. Today we were at home and she took a 15 minute nap and a 40 minute nap, passed out on top of me, so I wasn't getting anything done during those "breaks." I think she just doesn't want to miss anything! I've decided this is just the way she is - she's not going to be a big napper. Or maybe she'll surprise me as she gets older and she'll take one of those 2 hour naps that people talk about. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377535 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:50:14 +0000 sarac 1377535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sslm: That may be your problem. We can often direct the time and location of their sleep, but the overall duration is up to them. I have found that embracing the idea that she has a radically different than I do to be really helpful. Also, embracing the suck. Whenever someone tells me about their toddler who naps for 3 hours and then sleeps for 12 hours overnight? I die a little inside. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377463 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:15:55 +0000 sslm 1377463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Greentea: That sounds awful!!! :(</p> <p>@sarac: I think that's my problem, I still think I should be able to have some sort of control over the situation... haha.</p> <p>@Sapphiresun: That sounds bad. I'm sorry :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377454 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:13:39 +0000 Smurfette 1377454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>R only gets about 10.5 hours at night, doc wants her to have 12. Then she wants her to have 3 hours during the day, usually she gets 1.5 at the most at day care. They say she is fine all day, happy and playing.</p> <p>I think around 9 months is when she started napping longer at home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377434 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:59:51 +0000 Greentea 1377434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: me too. DD sleeps 10-7 with 2 or 3 wakeups and 1-2 20 minute naps. ON ME. Super exhausting! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377432 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:58:33 +0000 Sapphiresun 1377432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO has recently decided naps are for suckers too. She's perfectly pleasant all day long, and also doesn't go to bed until 1030, no matter what method we try to get her down earlier. So, 7am-1030 is a long shift for this mom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377349 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:11:00 +0000 sarac 1377349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Holla! My daughter is one of these. Her father is the same way, so we weren't shocked. Sleeps 11 to 12 hours total, always has. It's pretty beneficial to my husband, as an adult. But as her mother? Ugh! No advice. You really can't change the amount of sleep a child needs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377140 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:47:03 +0000 Revel 1377140@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Very helpful to see these comments. I think my LO has low sleep needs and it's tough not to stress about it and keep from feeling like we're doing something wrong. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377135 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:35:43 +0000 rachiecakes 1377135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS has always been this way!<br /> He's 2 now and has been on one nap since he was around 16 months and frequently drops naps all together.<br /> He sleeps 11 hours max overnight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377109 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:11:03 +0000 googly-eyes 1377109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've gone through phases like that too! I don't know what to say, I have always found it easier to just keep going about our day than struggle with her to make her sleep. If she was cranky then of course I would try again and/or resort to a car nap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377084 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:54:32 +0000 SleepyMonkey 1377084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my LO is an 11-11.5 hour a night sleeper and she gets 1.5-2 hours of naps each day, sometimes less, and she is generally pretty happy. she is 15 months but has been this way since around 8 months or so. i would stress myself out about how she wasn't getting 15 hours like she was supposed to, but she has always been content and i figure she just doesn't need a lot of sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1377034 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:27:31 +0000 Sammyfab 1377034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: I have a hard time believing that these magical unicorn super sleepy babies exist for real. :wink: </p> <p>@sslm: as a newborn, my LO always got way less than the recommended amount of sleep and since then he's fluctuated a lot. He binges and purges on a weekly basis and it all evens out to being pretty average. It's hard not to worry and stress about the numbers because it always feels like the moms with the dream sleepers are the most precise (and vocal) with their numbers :wink: . </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376995 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:56:03 +0000 Mamasig 1376995@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sslm: I used to feel the same way. DS NEVER has fit the guidelines in terms of sleep. And then a friend told me that babies need sleep to grow. So in the beginning that freaked me out! Well DS proves that babies grow without tons of sleep - he's been 90%+ since birth. </p> <p>As long as he's healthy and happy, he must be getting what he needs! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376949 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:24:44 +0000 immabeetoo 1376949@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO's sleep got signficantly better after 12m. He transitioned to one nap around 10.5 months with a rocky start and it slowly lengthened. Now he gets about 11 hours over night and typically a 2 hour nap. Which is more sleep per 24 hours than he has had in a long time! Like yours, he was always happy even with less sleep. I'm the same way - it doesn't make it any easier when some LOs sleep 12+ overnight and take 4 hours of nap a day :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376946 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:23:44 +0000 sslm 1376946@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am so glad to know that there are babies like this because everything I've read makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong!! Apparently she should get 14 hours in a 24 hour period. She never comes close to that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376940 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:21:38 +0000 sslm 1376940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: yikes!!!! When did your LO go down to one nap? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376906 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:56:58 +0000 ALV91711 1376906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 10 months. He sleeps about 11 hours overnight with 2-3 wake ups. He has two naps usually totaling no more than 2 hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376894 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:52:41 +0000 Corduroy 1376894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 11 months. We get 9 hours at night and usually a one hour nap. Some days it's just one 30 min nap. Thankfully she goes to day care. I could not stay home for that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376753 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:37:19 +0000 MamaJ 1376753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. DS is 13 month. He sleeps 12ish hours per night. I'm lucky if I get one 1 hour nap. Usually it's more like 45 mins. I'm jealous of everyone who has a toddler that naps for 2 hours! Also for about 2 weeks he totally refused to nap at all. It was hell. So now I take what I can get. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376735 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:22:50 +0000 winniebee 1376735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son has slept 12.5 hours total in a 24 hour period since about 8 months old. He's 20 months. Lately he sleeps 11 hours overnight with a 1.5 hour nap. Sometimes it's only 10.5 at night though. Lucky me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376718 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:06:02 +0000 MapleMoose 1376718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sslm: I've pretty much come to terms with the lack of daytime sleep lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376692 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:42:40 +0000 Bookish 1376692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! G gets a max of 11 hours at night, and about 1.5 hours worth of naps total at daycare. On the weekend I can get more sleep out of her (but that's only if we cosleep for naps, which means I'm stuck there with her). She's a super happy kid, and just doesn't seem to need much sleep. I, on the other hand, am flipping exhausted :p </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376684 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:35:46 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1376684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first LO always took 30 minute naps and was a happy kiddo. His naps got longer only when we transitioned to one nap at 14 months. That said, with my second I have been more strict/scheduled because *I* need the breaks during the day to get some things done, and he has been a better napper. A couple things that help: getting out of the house first thing in the morning so he gets a lot of stimulation (then goes down for a nap appx. 2.5 hours after waking up). Second is making sure he gets physically tired enough- so encouraging him to crawl back and forth, letting him go up the stairs with me behind him of course etc. BTW little on is 11 months, if that helps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376676 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:33:24 +0000 Mamasig 1376676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, my son is like this. He's 16 months now and has never needed a lot of sleep. I swear he's been like this since the day he was born. He wakes up happy and rearing to go every day whether or not he gets 9 hours of sleep or 11. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376662 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:25:34 +0000 lizzywiz 1376662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sslm: mine had low sleep needs from day one- NEVER met the recommended. She would hit 12 hours for a whole 24 hour period when the rec was 16. She didn't nap well from 4 months to 1 year.<br /> Now, at 20 months, she is actually on target. 10-11 hours at night (with wake-ups, blerg) and one 2 hour nap.<br /> hang in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376659 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:24:29 +0000 regberadaisy 1376659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sslm: my LO was queen of 20-30 minute naps for ever and would only get about 10hrs of sleep a night. I fretted about it for a while but finally accepted that all babies are different including their sleep needs! </p> <p>She's 21 months and I've yet to get a 12hr night out of her. Max was 11-11.5. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376619 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:02:00 +0000 sslm 1376619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MapleMoose: ugh :( I'm sorry!! M has been like this pretty much since birth. I really hope it's just a phase for your LO!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/low-sleep-needs-anyone-else-deal-with-this#post-1376608 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:56:05 +0000 MapleMoose 1376608@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 3 months old and takes 20 minute naps. I can't get anything done, let alone catch a break! </p>