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That sounds just about what LO was doing at that age. We did a little bit of nap training at 5.5 months because she would only go down for a nap by nursing. We started putting her down between 1:45-2 hours after she woke up, unless she got really tired before that. She would typically sleep 45 minutes with the occasional 1.5 hour nap thrown in there, and have 4 naps a day.

Around 7 months, we started stretching the in-between time to 2.5 hours and she started sleeping 1.5-2 hours for 2 naps and 45 min for one. She still fusses for almost every nap, but it's usually less than 5 min. If it goes longer than 20 min, or she gets hysterical, we'll go in and get her.

What time is bedtime? I would say at 6 months is a good time to not let any naps run past 4:30 or so & to start an earlier bedtime.

We transitioned to 2 naps right before LO turned 6 months but it was because her naps lengthened to about 2 hours. Her ideal wake time was 1.5-2 hrs so if she had been taking short naps still we would have stuck with 3. Some kids take 3 naps until they are 8 months or even older if they are cat nappers.

@Emsmems: I think that what really helped was a couple things. We did the stretching times out that wye let her cry each week at night. So we are up to 25 min currently. But she almost never goes that long before going back to sleep. The other thing that helped was one day I was so frustrated with trying to get her to settle for nap that I just walked out to let her cry. I needed a break. So I let her cry while I decompressed. I was going to go in at the 15 min mark but she fell asleep right when I was about to walk back in. And her going to sleep for naps have been good ever since. She still takes 2 short and usually 1 long nap a day, unless we're out and then she sleeps like crap. She really can only sleep well at home. She doesn't even fall asleep in the car! Weirdo. Lol.

So yeah, over all its better. I'll never take sleep for granted again.

Whoa-- didn't realize it would post like that. Cool.

My son did 30 min naps from 4-6 months and it was brutal Bc would only stay awake 1.5-2 hours. Right before 6 months his morning nap got a little longer which made it easier to stretch out his awake times. However, because he only slept 10 hours at night (7-5), he needed 3 naps until around 8 months.

At 6 months LO moved to a 3-3-3 schedule...she couldn't have handled 4hrs of awake time at that age either. Naps were around 1.5hrs each.

@Emsmems: at 6 months we were starting to stretch towards 2 hours between naps and she was still taking 3 good naps a day. I did start lengthening the time between naps gradually and by 7 months she was usually on two naps with the occasional 3rd short nap in the evening. I was kinda doing the 2-3-4 schedule but it was more like 1.5-3-3 for awhile. At 11 months we always have 2 naps and it's a 2.5-3.5-3 schedule.