Sleep question

[sake]

When did your baby transition from several short naps a day to 2 longer naps? I don't mind grants little naps, just wondering when he will probably begin to change his schedule...

[Sloane]

7-8 months or so, even now she still sometimes will take three shorter naps (DD is 10 months) but around 7 months she started consolidating naptimes. The morning nap is still just one sleep cycle but she usually conks out for at least an hour and a half in the afternoon.

[sake]

We're on a good eat/play/nap schedule. And he sleeps 7-8 hours at night... So I am totally fine with the way he sleeps... He can take mini naps until he's 3 for all I care, as long as he sleeps at night!

Right now he eats, plays for 60-90 min then sleeps for 30-60 min.

[sake]

May 4, 2013 11:21:33 GMT -5 Sloane said:

7-8 months or so, even now she still sometimes will take three shorter naps (DD is 10 months) but around 7 months she started consolidating naptimes. The morning nap is still just one sleep cycle but she usually conks out for at least an hour and a half in the afternoon.

Did it just happen naturally? Or did you have to do some sleep training to get her nap schedule changed?

[daisyheadmaizie]

DS has been taking two longer naps with the occasional late day mini nap since he was around 5 months old. He is almost 8 months now. He gets up between 7-8, first nap from 10-12(ish), second nap from 2:30/3-4/4:30, then goes down for the night around 7:30/8. He sometimes takes a little nap around 5:30 if his other naps have been short or if he gets up early and everything gets pushed up. He usually still wakes up 2x a night. Once around 10:30 and again between 4-6.

[daisybuchannan]

Around 7 months

[game blouses]

Same here, 7 or 8 months (he's 10 months now). He takes 2 naps, usually around 2 hours each, and around 12 hours at night. At 6 months he was not STTN and was taking 3-5 mini naps a day. No sleep training, he just figured it out, although I did stop nursing him during the night when he hit 6 months.

[Deleted]

For DD, it was a combo of solid foods and mobility that made the most changes in her nap schedule. It was gradual and natural.

[Sloane]

Nope, didn't do any training for naps, I let her nap when she felt like it and where she felt like it and basically worked into two naps on her own.