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Offline UNCMomma

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Late afternoon catnap
« on: June 06, 2006, 13:47:42 pm »
My baby will be 4 mos old next week.  She is taking 3 naps a day, with 2 long and 1 short.  I realize that ideally this short nap would be in the late afternoon, but that's where we have a problem.  She is unable to fall asleep after about 3 pm.  She FIGHTS sleep after this time, unless she's already asleep.  I usually try to time her last nap to be a long one and to start about 2:30 so she can get adequate sleep and still have an earlyish bedtime (6:30 about).  She has always had trouble at this time of day, with scream-fests in her early weeks in the late afternoon.  Any suggestions?  Is it okay to have this sort of nap routine, with 1 long in the AM, short in the middle of the day, and long in the PM?  Some days it's Short, Long, Long, or  Short, Short, Long (can you decipher that jargon???!!)  Help please!  :)

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Re: Late afternoon catnap
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2006, 13:52:51 pm »
HI UNCmomma,

How is she sleeping at night? 


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Re: Late afternoon catnap
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2006, 13:59:27 pm »
Night sleep varies as well.  I have dropped the dream feed b/c she was still waking several hours later on most nights, although not to eat.  Without the dream feed about 50 % of the time she wakes to eat once, and that's it.  Sometimes she has trouble going back to sleep after she eats, and at times she has trouble falling asleep initially at bedtime.  Night sleep is more consistent without the dream feed, but still not very consistent.  When she was about 10 wks, she slept through (with the dream feed) until after 5 and I thought we were golden!  But it was very short lived.   ???  Hope that answers your question...

Thanks, Amanda
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