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There was a little while where she needed a cat nap from 530-600. Then we bathed around 6:30/640 and she was in bed by 8.

But thats all gone to the birds.....

My son has catnapped around 6 pm since he was like 2 weeks old. There has yet to be a way to stop it, and he goes down between 8-8:30. We've tried moving his bedtime earlier, but he wakes up after 1/2 hour. I just say its the way he is.

My 4.5 month old sleeps around 10:30pm (yeah, late!) and the latest I will let him nap is 7pm and he'll usually nap for an hour tops. But right now he's been up for 3 hours and isn't tired. Probably due to the fact that he took a 4:45 (!!!!) nap this afternoon. Yikes.

My LO is 9 weeks old and usually needs a cat nap in the evening around 7 or so for 15 minutes - sometimes in the swing or in our arms. We start a bedtime routine around 8:15ish so he's usually in his crib for the night by 9pm and then he sleeps until 3am, nurses, and then goes back down until 7am. We tried moving his bedtime up to 8 a few nights and it backfired - he would wake up at 11pm to eat, then again around 2am and then again at 6am. With him going to sleep later at 9, at least I get more than a few hours of continued sleep! I feel like in the next month or so, he may move his bedtime up earlier on his own but he's just not ready yet.

mine is 3 months and I try to avoid the evening cat nap and just put him down for the night....he's been going to bed really early (like 6 pm early) and sleeping til nearly 6 am starting this week, sometimes with one feed around 1 or 2 am. from what I've read, an early bed time can be more helpful than the late nap, and while i was scared to try at first, it has been great!

@WinnieBee: I've been reading Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child - which will make you crazy...BUT he suggests moving up bedtime really early, and I've been putting my son down CRAZY early, and it's really helped. Literally at 5:45 a few times.... On the other hand, he's not a huge fan of the moby, but if I could keep him happy in there and stay up a bit, that would be nice - would maybe lead to a later wake up... ?

@WinnieBee: Surprisingly, it's not that awful because....you get a baby free evening to actually catch up on life a bit - cooking real meals again, cleaning a litle, watching garbage tv, etc

@SammyFab: me too! I had to fight mine down for a nap at 3:30 today and he only slept for about 25 mins. I can't imagine keeping him up much past 6:30 anymore.... looking forward to when he'll consistently sleep all the way through...

@WinnieBee: I hear ya! My husband also gets home later, but he tries to get his quality time in with the baby in the morning before work. Good luck tonight!