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I don't really have any advice, but I went and reread your other post and saw that a lot of people said that your LO should only be awake for 1-1.5 hours tops. I just went and checked my records, and at 8 weeks, Xander was usually awake for 1.5-2 hours before he went down for a nap.

Some babies just sleep less! Xander was totally happy and content and would've just fought me if I tried putting him down earlier!

Some babies do need more help than others falling asleep, but just because OTHER babies can't stay awake for 2 hours at 8 weeks doesn't mean that YOURS can't either. Just wanted to offer another perspective!

@Danizaur: Oh gosh, LO is 2 years old i still feel like i need a manual!! @Adira makes a good point that all babies have different awake times. Mine actually had to go down within 1 hour of waking up...so that meant 10 minutes of diaper changes, 30 minutes of nursing and 10 minutes of awake time before getting her ready for her next nap. You can fiddle around with the awake times until you get a better sense of how much awake time your baby can handle.

@Danizaur: What makes you think he needs more sleep? Is he pretty fussy when he's awake? Or is he just fighting naps? And do you have a swing? I think at that age, I used to just plop Xander in the swing and turn it on and he'd eventually pass out.

@Danizaur: Honestly at 8 weeks all R did was cat naps. I was so happy if she did an hour. But we had to hold her to get her to nap and if we put her down she woke up. Hang in there Mom!

Mine is 10 weeks and all she does is cat nap too. I'm usually able to get her to go to sleep after she wakes up by rocking and bouncing her until she falls sleep and put her back down. This only works for one of her naps though usually. She started doing these short naps right after she turned 8 weeks.

My son is 9 weeks and is very similar... in fact I'm just now starting to even try some kind of a schedule...before now, he just kind of slept whenever and I didn't pay attention to how long he was sleeping. He's starting to fight naps so sometimes I have to hold him until he falls asleep (he likes to be held upright) and then put him down. It's frustrating because he goes to bed really well at night and sleeps really well then. So basically I'm no help, since I'm going through the same thing!

Doesn't sound wrong to me. Then again my LO has fought naps from day 1 and still does (6 months old now). Her naps are 20 minutes long and she doesn't take many. She used to STTN until 10 weeks old, now we enjoy night wakeups every 2-4 hours.

I used to worry about her lack of sleep but things got better for me when I stopped trying to make LO conform to what's recommended or "typical" or whatnot. It is what it is. My baby thinks sleep is for the weak and I just have to roll with that.

@Danizaur: that's awesome! I wish my 10 week old would take some hints from your LO! Lol.

@Danizaur: I will keep my advice short and sweet:

Don't compare your baby's sleep to another baby's *reported* sleep times/totals (the accuracy of shared sleep information is always suspect in my book . . . I will leave it at that)

Lower your expectations for sleep. I would have given pretty much anything for 45 minutes naps at that age! As few as 10 minutes of sleep can be restorative sleep for a LO.

Lower your expectations for yourself. It's only been two months! It's one heck of a learning curve to figure out EVERYTHING in two months (things change so often and so quickly).