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Try to get her to sleep. We assumed LO would just go to sleep when she was tired. Then we went to her 2 week appointment and told our ped how much she was sleeping (about 11-12 hrs) and she advised us to work at getting her to sleep during the day. Swing, swaddle, rock, whatever. It made a huge difference for us when we realized that, at that age, she needed to sleep after about 60 minutes of wake time.

I agree in trying to get her to sleep after about an hour of awake activity. She might be missing her window and then becoming overtired and not wanting to go to sleep.

I guess I'm going to against the grain! If your LO is content, then I wouldn't try to force her to take naps. If she's not tired, she's not going to sleep!

Xander was only sleeping around 12 hours total at that age and he was perfectly content with that. When he would nap, it would only be for about 30 minutes at a time, usually after being awake for ~2 hours. He was never cranky or fussy because he was tired, so we just let him be awake!

That said, we did try not to over-stimulate him, just to be on the safe side. He spent a lot of his awake time in his swing, just looking around. If he got tired, he'd just fall asleep like that. But more often than not, he was WIDE AWAKE!

i wouldn't push it if your baby is content. at that age, my LO would sleep whenever and wherever. there were times she was up for like 5 hours, and she was fine. she started to get that overtired/crankiness at closer to 10 weeks.