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I thought that too! In our case, "sleepy baby" seemed to be a mythical legend, like the Unicorn! lol. I always tried to get LO to nap according to what the age-normal sleep patterns said, but she'd want to be awake a lot too. Still have this issue.

@shopaholic: Do we have the same baby? My baby always had these long awake periods, and is still not a good napper.

Yeah, my LO never did the "sleepy baby" thing either. I want to say it was around 10-12 weeks when we started getting more consistent naps and now at 18 months old she's a great napper/sleeper.

DS2 is 5 weeks old and also has long awake periods. I try not to worry about it. Usually he is cooperative and will play in his play mat or sit in his bouncer. If not, I put him in a carrier so that I can get some stuff done around the house.

@Revel: Probably. Ugh. Yesterday she got 2 naps: 23 min. and 25 min. wth?

@ChitownRo: @yin:'s solution worked for us in those early days! Baby-wearing naps in the K'tan or Ergo! Totally saved me most days!

Weissbluth says not to worry about any sort of nap schedule or anything like that before six weeks. He says that in those early weeks babies basically sleep when they need to sleep and you don't need to stress about bad habits or anything.

DS was a very alert newborn. He basically only catnapped in 20 min intervals until he was 5 months old and started napping in 1-2 hour stretches (and definitely not STTN). He also wanted to be held a lot. When I talked to the ped about it she said it was unusual, but since he was eating and growing normally, not to worry about it. At almost 3, he's an excellent sleeper now and as healthy as they come.

It's funny because our new baby is 10 days old and is the typical sleepy newborn, to the point that I was worried about it for the first 4 days that she was sleeping too much since she is nothing like her brother.