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@Mrs. Sunshine: how old is your LO? My LO slept so much as a baby! Like 14 hours over night and then 2 long naps (2-3 hours each) and a short nap (1 hour) for a long time! I think around 8 months she went to 2 naps. The one positive is bc she slept so much at night she gave up naps faster than most of her friends. She went to one nap right around 14 months and dropped to no naps around 3

Not what you want to hear, but it was right before his first birthday that he went to two naps consistently. He has been solidly on 2-3-4 ever since.

@Mrs. Sunshine: The good thing is that he really rocks 2-3-4 (although I'm hating that he's toying with the idea of 1 nap) and it gives me some down time on the weekends. I definitely know the feeling of being a slave to naps, though.

@Mrs. Sunshine: I definitely had/have a baby with high sleep needs. He's almost 16 months now. But until 8/9 months he was sleeping 2-3 hours for 2 naps a day, one 45min-1hour nap and then sleeping 12-13 hours a night!
Once he hit 8/9 months he moved to two naps a day, pretty solidly. Still 1.5-2 hours per nap, then 12-13 hours at night.
At 16 months he's still on 2 naps a day, 1-2 hours each (I usually have to cut them short so they don't interfere with bedtime). Then he sleeps 12-13 hours at night.

One thing that I've read and my ped told me is not to try and cut naps before they show signs they are ready. They have high sleep NEEDS so while it sucks sometimes, we should let them tell us when they need less sleep. I definitely tried to force him down to one nap a month or so ago and he wasn't ready and it majorly backfired. I misread his cues and just figured "he's 15 months, time for 1 nap" and really he just needed longer awake time between his naps. So we did some tweaking and while I still feel a little restricted by his nap schedule, it's a lot better now that he's awake for 3.5-4 hours between naps. I figure that when he's ready for 1 nap it'll be abundantly clear and not so painful for all of us!

my LO needs a lot of sleep. We dropped the 3rd nap around 10/11 months and have been on 2/3/4 ever since (he's now 16 months). The 2 naps he takes are on the shorter side too (1-1.5hrs) and he gets more sleep at night.

Hang in there! My LO has always needed lots of sleep and she fought it for the first year or so of her life. Now at 2 she sleeps 12-13 hours most nights and takes a 3 hour nap! I wish I had not obsessed over sleep so much when she was a baby - but it was too hard when I knew she was tired all the time.