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Only 2 Naps At 5 Months
« on: October 02, 2007, 20:25:24 pm »
DD is 5 months old and only takes two naps a day, is this enough? She is a very good napper - she will nap for up to 3 or 4 hours. Of course I don't let her nap that long because it ruins her night sleep. I found that out when I took a nap the same time as her figuring she'd wake me up, we both slept 4 hours opps.


This is roughly how her day looks



8:30 Wake and play in crib

9:00 eat
Activity
11:00-12:30 sleep

1:00 eat
activity
3:00-5:00 sleep

5:30 eat
activity
7:30 Cluster feed
8:00 Bed


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Re: Only 2 Naps At 5 Months
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2007, 21:37:55 pm »
Does she sleep well at night and not appear overtired?

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Re: Only 2 Naps At 5 Months
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2007, 00:21:32 am »
She goes back and forth with night sleep. Sleeps through for a week then wakes frequently for a week or two the sleeps through again. Im stumpped


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Re: Only 2 Naps At 5 Months
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2007, 01:17:38 am »
My DD went to 2 naps at 5.5months with no problems and doing 12hrs overnight this was her routine:

7am – Wake
7.30am – Bottle 200mls
8.30am – Breakfast
9.30am – Sleep 1.5-2hours
12pm – Lunch
1pm – Bottle 150-200mls
2pm – Sleep 1.5hrs
5/5.15pm – Dinner
6pm – Bath
6.30pm – Bottle 200mls
7pm – Bed

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My big princess Catherine 7/8/05
My little princess Mirelle 17/10/07

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Re: Only 2 Naps At 5 Months
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2007, 17:58:32 pm »
At 5 months, my older DS had two naps a day.  If I were you, I would move the first nap to 10:00 am and the second nap to about 2pm.  Then I would also make bedtime earlier, like 7 or 7:30.  I know when I went to 7pm for DS1 he began sleeping 12 hours at night consistently.  (both of his naps were about 1.5 hrs or so)

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Re: Only 2 Naps At 5 Months
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2007, 06:24:25 am »
My DD gave up the catnap at 5 months and wanted to go to bed earlier instead, it worked out really well  :)
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