Does your LO catnap in the morning?

[CLJK]

My little guy is 5 1/2 months old and we're still dealing with the short naps and random night wakening.  Every once in a while when I get really close to buying the new Ferber book he gives me a 2 hour nap and sleeps better at night, LOL (I think he knows what I am up to!!)!  Anyway, the long nap (if we ever get one) is never the morning nap (unless it is when he falls asleep in the car and I leave him in his carrier to finish out the nap), which is supposed to be the first to develop, I had thought.  He takes about a 35-40 minute nap every morning about an hour and 45 minutes after waking up.  I have been doing wake to sleep the past two days, and I am not sure if that is helping at all.  He will never go down for a nap after about 3:30 in the afternoon and hasn't done an evening "catnap" for at least a month.  Does anyone else have the problem of not being able to get your LO over the short nap hump in the mornings?  I guess I would be fine with an A.M. catnap if he were doing great the other naps of the day, but he's not. 

By the way, he usually goes down for that short morning nap easily and wakes bright and chipper (not usually the case later in the day).  I have tried to keep him up longer in the morning and he just can't do it.  He gets overtired and won't fall asleep without a struggle unless we are in the car and he falls asleep.

He seems to be extending his A time during other times of the day as he was up for a good 2:15 between nap #1 and nap #2 this morning.

Thanks!

-Cass

[*Mona*]

hi

my dd is much much younger than your lo [we're trying to be on 3 hrs EASY] but this first morning nap is the worst one for us too. i usually just put her down, give her paci and a cloth to cover her ears [and the paci so that it doesn't fall out right away  ] and she fall asleep on her own but... not for the first nap. today and yesterday i had to rock her to sleep. and a few times last week and many many times before [pat/shush not working]. don't know why. she sleeps great at night and maybe it's "affecting" her first morning nap

today she woke up 5:30, I fed her [was very hungry] and she went back to sleep. woke up at 7, tried to feed her just a little to "top her up" but didn't want to eat, then i tried to feed her at 8:30 [3 hrs past her previous feed!] but she started screaming so I put her down and... finally had to rock her to sleep which took me some 5 minutes... i just hope she will sleep for at least 45 minutes but am afraid she'll wake up earlier due to hunger

hugs to you and your LO
Monika

[shivi]

My DS is now 12 weeks and has been on EASY since birth. Sometimes, if I don't catch him coming out of one sleep cycle at around 9.15am, he will wake up and will be bright and breezy...but if I do catch him,he will sleep on no problems to 10 or even 10.15 after going down at 8.30. Our EASY schedule is usually ok after that, with two long (1.5hr) naps at 11.30 and 2.30. I don't stress too much aboutthe shorter nap anymore as the nights are great now - dream feed at 11 and then wake up extending to 5am. Originally we had two feeds at 2 and 5 then one at 3 which has become later and later recently.h

Other books (such as xxxx - who for me is too extreme) claim that babies fom 3 months need only 3 hrs sleep total for whole day, with a short nap am, long midday and another catnap pm.

I've never tried wake to sleep but rather try to be at the cot around 30 to 35 mins after beginning of nap.

good luck.

Siobhain