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i am a big believer in sleep begets sleep!!

if lo takes crappy naps during the day he either will have wake ups throughout the night, or will wake up super early the next day!

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Yes. In general, for us, sleep begets sleep...because when babies are overtired due to not napping well, it's harder for them to fall asleep at night and it leads to those every 2-3 hour wakeups--so bizarre that they wake up MORE when they're tired, but babies are weird!

The only thing I do is I don't let him nap too close to bedtime.

FOr your LOs 6 weeks is a HUGE growth spurt time so I would guess that they really really need the sleep!! It's super normal for them to have periods of crazy long naps when they're that young. My LO would often take 3 2+ hour naps and still sleep ok at night.

Sleep begets sleep every time!

That has been the experience with both of my kids. The better they nap, the better they sleep at night.

I think it depends on the baby. My LO tends to be a good sleep no matter what.

You know, I worried about this *so much* in the beginning. We always had a good night sleeper (up every 3 hours like clockwork, then up every 4 hours, then finally she sleeps from 9-3, then down until 630) and I was *always* worried that a day of all-day-sleeping would make her NOT sleep at night. It simply never happened. Now, if she napped from 3pm-6pm, she wouldn't go to bed at 8pm or 9pm easily.

Usually, yes. If she doesn't sleep well that day and is crabby, she generally doesn't sleep well at night. BUT...i don't know that the issue is SOLELY related to sleep. I usually chalk it up to a growth spurt, where she sleeps like shit for a 48 hour window, then suddenly sleeps good again at night. Let them sleep, I say

Not sure.

Definitely! The only exceptions would be, as mentioned, sleeping too late in the day, and if they slept just an insane amount during the day (like 10 hours or something). Otherwise, I would never worry about too much daytime sleep when they're little.

Sleep begetting sleep is definitely true for us. I put my DS to bed 15 min earlier last night (reading his cues) and he slept in an hour past normal. If one of them took say a 4 hour nap in the middle of the day though, I might be in trouble.

DD1 was always a crap napper but she slept 11-12 hrs at night from 8 weeks on so I don't always believe in it.

I have a 6wk old and the couple of times he's taken really good (i mean 3-4 hour) naps during the day, he has done 6-8 hours straight at night. I am a big believer in this!

Yes, I'm a big believer. Yesterday my 9.5-month-old took a FIVE AND A HALF HOUR NAP, from 9:30am-3pm. He was super happy! (and it turned out to be a one-nap day)

Sleep definitely begets sleep for my LO.

@Trailmix: Too cute!!

They are so cute!!!

Well I think as a young baby when my son had bad naps he slept worse at night. But if he slept too much during the day he was also up at night. I never woke him though.

Absolutely!!! This holds 100% true for our LO and has since she was a newborn. The better she sleeps during the day, the better she sleeps at night. If she is having an extra long nap, I assume she needs it and let her sleep. After the initial week or so where she had her days and nights mixed up, I was firmly in the camp that naps of any duration, at any time, are good. We still found that even if LO took a long nap and woke up quite late, relative to her bedtime, she would still start exhibiting her sleepy cues at the normal bed time. Even now at 12.5 months, if she has crappy day time naps, we prepare ourselves for somewhat crappy night time sleep, and vice versa. So true for us!