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True for my daughter in moderation. A good solid nap, or several good solid naps when she was an infant, meant good night time sleep. But a weird extra daytime nap will definitely ruin bedtime. I've been known to sing REALLY loud in the car sometimes to keep her from falling asleep at like 4 pm and ruining bedtime.
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Not true at all for my low-sleep needs baby. But I didn't catch on to that until she was well over a year old. As an infant, I kept forcing her to go to bed earlier and earlier and all I got in return were earlier and earlier wakeups for the day. After about 8 months of her waking at 4:45-5 am for the day, I finally moved her bedtime back by quite a bit and now she sleeps till 6-6:15.
It's been life changing for me to let go of the idea that all babies/toddlers need 12 hours of sleep overnight.
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At 5 months I've seen no correlation
She will nap awful then sleep great at night
Nap awful sleep awful at night
Nap great sleep great
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It was true for us up to a point. She was a terrible sleeper overall for months, but once we sleep trained and she was able to get good night sleep in, she became a really solid sleeper. Both naps and night sleep improved. Ever since then though, I don't see much correlation. Naps don't really affect her night sleep (aside from us having to move up bedtime sometimes).
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It's kind of true for us. If DS gets too overtired, his sleep does suffer - he will then nap shorter and wake up earlier in the morning - and we end up in a vicious circle until he finally gets in a good long nap or a bit of a lie in. But it's not the case that the longer he naps the longer he will sleep at night, or vice versa. He's 17 months.
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@Anagram: isn't it freeing to let go of all that sleep stuff? It was for me. DS1 has never needed a lot of sleep. I thought something was wrong and he was going to suffer developmentally. I was crazy! It's so much easier to just go with what works for them.
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I'm trying to think back, but I don't think there was ever any correlation for DS. Pre-sleep training (at 7m) his nighttime sleep was a disaster, even if he had good naps. Post sleep training he generally sleeps 12 hours at night unless he's teething. His naps were always crap at daycare until he moved to the toddler room at 12m.
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@Mamasig: yes! Her old bedtime used to be 6:30 or 7:00 pm and she never saw DH at night and I was always so rushed after work to get her dinner done and get her in bed. And then she'd wake up at 4:45 or 5 am (Kill me).
But ever since the time change, I just kept her bedtime at the new 8 pm and it's great--we have to much more time after work to play before dinner, she sees DH, and she sleeps till 6 or so which is so much nicer for us.
She has never slept more than 9.5-10.5 hours overnight, in her whole life.
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