I feel like M's naps are about to drive me to the loonie bin. She has been taking 3, 30-40 minute naps for weeks now (with the occasional 10-20 min one). Today, she flat out refused the second nap. This resulted in a morning nap of 45 minutes, and a late afternoon nap of 1.5 hours... is this just a fluke? Or is it maybe a sign she could go down to 2 naps?
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At 4.5 months we do 2 naps. She is awful after about 3 hours awake, but usually won't go down till at least then.
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My lactation consultant said that nap sleep matures between 6 and 8 months and that's when they go to two longer naps. Maybe you're there?
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@sslm: that's when we did. Similar to you he just started reusing the third one so... It was really the only option!
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Only as a very new newborn did DS ever take more than 2 naps a day. I would read about babies who had 3 or 4 naps a day and did not believe it. So, no, I don't think 6 months is too early. For your LO, if not for you!
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if they take long enough naps, but i think on average babies are on 3 naps until 8 months-ish.
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we swapped at around 7 months. i think, if the thought had occured to me, we could have gone to two naps a little after 6 months.
can't hurt to try, right?
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With this LO we went to two naps right around 6 months. I realized that he was taking two really short naps in the morning, like 30 minutes, so one day I decided to skip errands and put him down at home and since then he's been on two. (Usually 1 hour and then 2 hours). With my first LO we were still on 3.
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A is 6 months are rarely takes three naps.
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My LO went down to two naps on the early side and once she hit seven or eight months she did really well on the 2-3-4 routine.
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We were on 2 naps at 6 months and then 1 at a year. C prefers to do her sleeping at night.
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Nope! I'd switch.
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We were on 2 naps by about 4 months. They were 2 long naps so it was enough. I would switch if your baby is ready.
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There are a lot of days when K only has two naps. I think the idea is to get 14-ish hours of sleep within a 24 hour period, so a lot of it depends on the length of her naps. K typically naps 1-1.5 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon (plus 11-12 hours of nighttime sleep), so it works for her.
I recently read about the 234 nap routine and tried it yesterday and it worked really well, maybe google that and see if it will work for you?
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not at all! between 6-8 months we had 2 naps some days, 3 naps other days. it all depends on the baby. as long as she is getting enough sleep and the naps are long enough, i dont think 6 months is too early at all
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I think M was on 2 naps by 6 months. She never napped too much until that age and we went right to 2 naps.
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Sometimes we do 2 naps at 6 months! We're between 2 and 3, but the third is *always* a catnap, if it happens at all
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We started 2 naps around 4 months. At 5pm - 6pm there was a quick 15-30 minute catnap on Daddy after a bottle. Around 6 months she dropped that catnap. At 8 months she started doing 1 nap on the weekends, and now at 9 months she's only doing 1 nap (2.5 - 3 hours)
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I think we were at 2 naps at around 6 months? Possibly sooner. At 9 months old DS naps 2x.
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