Anyone's baby NOT grow out of the 45 minute naps??

[Sungrl]

Zoey started taking 45 minute naps when she was a few months old.  She is now 10.5 months and STILL takes 45 minute naps!  For a few months, she was taking a 1.5 hour morning nap, but now she seems to be sleeping longer at night and is back to 45 minute naps for both naps.  It's frustrating because I would like a nap now that I am pregnant and 45 minutes is just not long enough for me to even fall asleep!!

Will this continue when she switches to one nap?!?!?

[ks6]

Ds more or less stayed with the 45-minute naps (sometimes 1.25 in the am) until we switched to one nap at 12 months old.  Then he slept 2 hours or more!    We still get about 1.5 hours now.  Here's hoping you get longer naps before the new baby comes! 

[KathyM]

Same as the previous poster. Until we went to one nap, my ds almost always had short naps, then after we went to one nap they were around 2 hours sometimes 3 hours. Now that he's almost 3 years old, he sleeps about an hour an a half every day.
There's hope!

[linfran]

Same thing here, ds is 18mo and on a good day he sleeps two hours but it is usually 1 hour approx.  He sleeps 12 hours at night and is pretty happy though so I don't complain.

[Layla]

What time are you attempting the naps?

[Sungrl]

well, she usually wakes around 7:30 and I put her down around 10am.  She will sleep for 45 minutes and then I put her for her afternoon nap around 2:30 or 3:00.  I've been making the afternoon one later because it is ALWAYS 45 minutes no matter what and if it is later she is less tired by bedtime at least.

[Layla]

You "should" be able to extend her morning A time to 3hrs at least the 3.5 before 2nd nap & 3.5ish before bedtime. So something like this:

7:30 - wakes up
10:30 - morning nap
11:15 - wakes from nap
2:15-2:45 - afternoon nap
3:45-4ish - afternoon nap ends
7.30ish - bedtime

Its actually ok that her morning nap is only 45mins cause at this age they tend to need a shorter morning nap to have a longer one but try the afternoon nap is the one thats staying so "try" to extend it. Have you thought about w2s?