I thought this was an undisputed fact, but I recently heard someone say this didn't work for their baby. In your experience, does sleep begets sleep?
I'm still trying to figure my baby out and love hearing what does/does not work for others!
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Absolutely true for us!
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True until 18 months or so.
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100% true for us!
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True! Becoming less true as she gets older (she's 15 months). I am very strict with making sure baby gets enough sleep and quality sleep in a good environment (not on the go) and my daughters sleep has always been decent. The days she didn't get as much or we were o the go, she was awful at night! It's nice that she's older and we aren't tied home with naps all the time!
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Pretty much true under age 2.
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No, night time sleep is almost always awesome, even when he had horrible naps. Good naps just prevent cranky baby.
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It was true for my daughter up until the past couple of months (she turns 3 next week).
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Maybe? He was a horrible napper and still waking up 3+ times a night at 8 months. Around that time he became a better napper and STTN, but I lean toward maturing and aging being the cause.
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1000% true!
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I'm with @Mrs. Toad: on this. Naps (good or bad) never seemed to throw off night sleep, he was just more cranky when naps were crappy.
He also seems to wake up at the same time no matter when we put him down, but only to a point. When we put him to bed significantly earlier than normal he wakes up earlier, but when we put him to bed significantly later he still wakes up at his normal time.
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Total false!
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Not true for us.
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Not true for either of my girls. They had a certain # of hours they needed to sleep each day to be happy and if they were taking longer naps or going to sleep too soon after a nap theyd just lay with their eyes open or roll around. They were pretty set on the hours though they're a bit flexible with how they were divided up between naps and night.
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True for us still at 20 minths
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I wouldn't say so. I used to freak out that if she wasn't sleeping well, dd would have a bad night or whatever, but in practice, I don't think it was true. There is a such thing as overtired but a lot of times if she cried her head off even from being overtired she would be so pooped she'd just knock out.
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False for me and my two littles. No sleep begets cranky babies who still sleep at night, unless something else is going on.
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True until recently at 16 months. LO refuses to take more than one nap a day for only 1 hour (ugh) but gives us a solid 12-13 hours at night consistently.
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True! I would say under the age of one has been out cut off.
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Sooo not true for us
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It was true for J as a baby, but not true as a toddler.
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True in that a day of poor napping resulted is poor night sleep.
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As a baby it was true, but sometime around 18 months it stopped being true for my daughter.
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True in the sense that if LO had good naps, she usually slept better at night. I always thought sleep begets sleep meant "more sleep means better sleep" but for us it meant "good naps means better sleep" not necessarily that sleeping a ton during the day made her sleep better at night, if that makes sense. This was only true until about 18m-2y?
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Somewhat true. napping too much means trouble falling asleep for the night. But if she misses her second nap than there are more wake ups at night. At 8 months 2-3-4 awake time seems to work
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Very false for us. My daughter is like her father and has classically low sleep needs.
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Not true for my boys. I found no correlation between naps and nighttime sleep or the quality between either.
It's another one of those baby myths. Not all newborns sleep a lot and not every baby likes to be swaddled were also myths in my house.
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False for my low sleep needs kids.
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Whoever said "sleep begets sleep" sits on a throne of lies.
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true for us!
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Hmmm. Looks like a split! I like the point about it being quality sleep, not necessarily quantity. I still am unsure as to what quality sleep looks like for her.
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Not true for us for the most part. Sometimes if hes overtired he'll wake up half hour into a nap, but I get him back down. Night sleep is crap right now (9mo regression), but when he was smaller, he would often sleep better if his naps were bad that day.
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I think sleep is what you make it. I don't think sleep begets sleep. But I based all of our regimens and routines off of that,and at the end of the day - I sleep trained and changes in life make it a work in progress, and just because she had a great night's sleep or an excessive nap = doesn't mean I still don't have my work cut out for me to get her down for the night.
That turd.
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@PrincessBaby: hahahaha I take it you are not having a good night?
Thank you for making me laugh. Because it's so true. I can analyze and analyze and I will NEVER figure out why my almost 3 year old naps like a champ some days and acts like I'm killing her when I put her in her bed other days....or why my 1 year old keeps me up all night for days on end until I'm literally cracking...then sleeps through the night.
But to answer the original question - for the most part, yes. I don't believe that an extra nap or a long nap ruins bedtime/later naps. This is especially true for car naps (my 1 year old can sleep for most of a 5 hour car ride, then come right home and go to bed) or naps taken later than usual (if she takes her morning nap late, she can wake up, have lunch, and go right back down for an afternoon nap).
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False for my 7 month old! He used to have days with great naps and terrible nights. Now he has terrible naps and good nights (knock on wood).
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Yes and no. Crappy naps or late to bed often means wakeups at night and/or early mornings. But too long a nap means she's not ready for to sleep when bedtime comes around.
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True for us so far (2.5), or maybe we just have a naturally good sleeper.
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Def rang true for us and still does at 2.5!
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absolutely true for us with both kids.
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Absolutely true for my first, somewhat true for my second. I gave up trying to figure her out.
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