I read somewhere that you shouldn't let babies nap longer than 3 hours. Do you wake your LO if their naps are longer than 3+ hours? Does it depend on the time of day?
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I just wanted to say... I'M SO JEALOUS! I'd kill for a 3+ hour nap!
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@photojane: this doesn't happen very often. Their naps are usually 20-45 min long.
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When she was really tiny and we were still trying to establish milk supply I never let her go more than three hours between feedings during the day. Even if that meant I had to wake her up. Nowadays I can't imagine the bliss of a three hour nap but if she took one I would just assume she needed the sleep and I wouldn't wake her up.
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@photojane: Haha I was just thinking the same thing!! I'd do almost anything to get a 3 hour nap out of him!
I wouldn't wake him up unless it was his last nap of the day and would seriously impact bedtime.
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like mamamoose, i was having supply issues at the start and didn't let him go more than 3 hours without a feeding. honestly if i had to do it again, i wouldn't have woken him up (i would have pumped at the 3 hour mark and fed him again when he woke) unless he started to go past 4 hours.
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Thanks everyone! I think I will let them wake up on their own unless it gets closer to 4 hours. They probably just need their sleep.
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@WALLAROO: I wake him because I'm keeping him on a schedule and I don't want it to interfere with night sleep. I don't let my son sleep longer than 2 hours if he's having a normal, consistent nap day. If he didn't get a chance to nap for whatever reason though (like on Mother's Day), I did let his afternoon nap run up to 3.5 hours.
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@Mrs. High Heels: same! I try not to let LO nap more than 3.5 hours total throughout the day, otherwise it could lead to more night wakings...
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My son routinely sleeps around 3 hours or longer for his nap, but it's his only nap and he gets up super early. I am more flexible with bedtime than I used to be, but it's still no more than 4 hours from the wake up time of the nap.
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@hilsy85: my baby is only 12-weeks old, so he's getting 6 hours worth of naps (three 2-hr naps), but when he hits 7-months i'll be limiting naptime to 3.5-4 hours too!
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I only wake my kids up if we need to be somewhere and they're still sleeping. I'm a "never wake a sleeping baby" mom.
I found that no day is exactly the same, so I keep my kids on a flexible schedule.
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