C goes to bed between 7:30 and 8, and I won't let her sleep past 6, though if she has had decent naps during the day, I'll try to rouse her by 5:30. I hate to wake her since she has such a hard time napping, but otherwise the night just falls apart.
What's your cut off, if any?
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
Oh and I've been holding her in her darkened nursery for the last 45 minutes to get this particular nap- thanks for keeping me company bees! 
pomelo / 5469 posts
Her bedtime is 8-9pm and I'll make sure she's awake by 7pm-- though she usually is. She's 10wks and goes down fine, so I don't think it matters too much for us.
coconut / 8861 posts
We've been doing 2-3-4 for a long time now. He gets woken up by 4pm or if he wakes up around that time, for three hours or so of awake time before bed.
pomelo / 5469 posts
@Foodnerd81: how is C sleeping these days? I'm guessing from the lack of posts from you & @cherrybee: that it improves between 3/4mths?
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6581 posts
She goes down anywhere from 7-7:30, and I don't let her sleep past 6. If she's still tired I'll just move up bedtime.
pomegranate / 3895 posts
We do 234. Usually she's up from her last nap by 4:30 at the latest (7:30 bedtime). Yesterday her naps were screwed up because we had to get up earlier than usual in the morning, so she woke up from her second nap at 3. She fell asleep on my back (I was wearing her) while I was making dinner. I woke her up at 5:50 and she still went to bed no problem at her usual time.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
His bedtime is 8 and he's mostly on a one-nap schedule so it's been a moot point, but when he was on 2 naps I tried to allow at least 3 hours of awake before bedtime.
He's taking a random second nap right now, and if I wake him up now he'll still probably go to bed an hour later but last night was so awful for both of us that I'm just rolling with it. He's still sick, he needs the sleep.
cantaloupe / 6397 posts
We are on a loose 234 schedule and her bedtime is 7:30 so I usually wake her up by 4. But she only takes 30 min naps so this isn't usually a problem... Lol.
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
@illumina: haha that is a good thing to judge by! Sleep is ok. Still a work in progress but compared to a few weeks ago so much better. I think we may do a little sleep training to help with the motn wake ups and naps, but Dh puts her to bed awake every night now. However, I'm fearful that the 4 month sleep regression is starting...
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
Omg. It's rainy and gloomy today so DS was super sleepy.
He went down for nap #3 at 3:30pm. He's still sleeping! I don't think he's going to wake up. Haha.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
R sleeps pretty much every day on the way home from day care. 5-530, and is asleep by 7.
pineapple / 12526 posts
It used to be 4:30 for a bedtime of 6pm. Now she can't nap past 3pm, bedtime is 7pm.
pomelo / 5326 posts
I always have a tough time with this. I don't really have a cut-off but usually her last nap starts around 4:30 or 5. Today she napped from 5-6pm and I'm just putting her down to sleep at 8. She's 3m so she still naps 4 times a day and I basically just follow her cues. There are days where I've put her down for a nap at 6:30.
nectarine / 2591 posts
Depends on how desperate the situation is but usually 5:30 for a 6:30/7 bedtime
Generally if she's not down by 4/4:30 then there is no chance of a nap anyway.
honeydew / 7687 posts
HA! My LO (1 year now) has basically never napped after 4 PM, ever, no matter what. So we've never had an issue 
He does often go to bed at 6:15 though!
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
I'd like to point out the too many hours napping is never the problem in my house. It's more like, shoot, it's 4 o'clock and this child has not napped nearly enough today and is going to have an absolute meltdown if she doesn't nap, but if it's going to take 20 minutes at least to get her to sleep, on the off chance that she sleeps more than half an hour, what do I do?
She's almost 4 months so I try to keep her awake times during the day to under 2 hours. TRY. Then a little longer before bed, depending on how much she slept throughout the day.
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