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The 45 minute intruder is so difficult. We still struggle at 15 months old with it. chronicles of a babywise mom blog has lots of posts about the 45 minute intruder and how to try to work through it. Baby Whisperer suggests the wake to sleep method of gently rousing them right before the transition.

At 2 1/2 months, I would expect them to still be taking 3 or 4 naps a day with less than an hour of wake time. They should be 1 1/2 hour to 2 hour naps.

I'm in the same boat, and we've tried everything. Nothing works for us yet unfortunately. (Our daughter is 3.5 months). She actually wakes after 30 minutes. We consider ourselves lucky if she makes it to 45 minutes. You can literally time a half-hour clock by her naptime wakings. Like your baby, our daughter also sleeps beautifully at night...

@brownie: It's definitely not pain. She is almost always a happy camper... just hates to nap. I'm pretty sure that 30 minutes is her sleep cycle b/c I watch her go from totally passed out in a deep sleep to moving around and flapping her arms and legs right at the 30 minute mark. Swaddling doesn't help at all for her naps, and motion only helps somewhat. I've just decided to accept that her naps are going to be short... at least for now.

My LO has always been a great night sleeper, but would fight naps like crazy until about 3pm when she crashed and only sleep in our arms. Then, I just started putting her on her belly for naps. I know, I know... start throwing stones She has great head control so I wasn't too worried, and even with the monitor I still check on her several times. She's been taking 2 hour naps since.

For some babies, it takes time for them to develop longer naps. Eli didn't have consistent long naps until much later... 6 months I think?