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Can 20 week old really be dropping catnap?

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Tomatoandcheese:
Hi all.

My DD is currently 20 weeks and has just in the last couple of weeks extended her awake times to 2 hours. She was also sleeping through 19.15-6.30 with no df. Then about a week ago she started waking at night again and not just once, but a couple of times, including one waking of an hour or more at around 4am. She didn't seem especially hungry and would still be wakeful after a feed. She was also waking early to start the day.

She had a cold and was transitioning to both arms out of the swaddle so. I thought at first it was due to these, but it didn't improve even after her cold was gone and she was napping well again. Then yesterday we interrupted her second nap due to visiting a school for DS. I hoped she might take a longer third nap to compensate but she didn't so was up from 14.45 ish to 18.50 and managed surprisingly well. Last night she slept through again.

Could she possibly be ready to drop the third nap? She doesn't fight it at all but has always needed longer awake times at that time of day in order to settle well at night.  It was already at 2.5 hours and we didn't increase it when we increased the other awake times. I currently cap her morning nap by waking her at 10 so we can fit a catnap in, so she might manage an extra half hour there which would hopefully leave her with two 2 hour naps and a final wake period from around 2.30/2.45 to bedtime at around 19.00. She just seems very young to be dropping the nap. My son kept it until about 8 months!

creations:
I don't think you'd be the first to have a LO dropping a CN at this age. Yes it's early but they are all different aren't they.
Usually you'd look for an A time close to 3hrs to go for 2 naps in the day, your LO seems to be doing 2hr A times until the last A time which would then be closer to 2hr 45.  If that works for you it's fine, otherwise you might need to look at possibly extending the other A times a bit so that you can get through the day from 6.30am to 7pm, or you could try bringing BT earlier and see if she tacks on another 30 - 60 mins at night.
The only thing you can do really is try it and see how it goes, judging the progress over several days rather than just 1 or 2.

hope that helps

Tomatoandcheese:
Thanks. We will give it a go and see what works. She's just so different to her brother we've had to chuck everything we knew out the window and start again!

becj86:

--- Quote from: Tomatoandcheese on October 18, 2017, 07:05:39 am ---Then about a week ago she started waking at night again and not just once, but a couple of times, including one waking of an hour or more at around 4am. She didn't seem especially hungry and would still be wakeful after a feed. She was also waking early to start the day.
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These are all signs that the first A time needs an increase. At this age, average A time is 2:15-2:30 so its not unusual for her to need more than she's currently getting.

Tomatoandcheese:
Hmm. Naps have been really screwy the last few days due to life with a preschooler but she has slept 7am to 6pm again each night despite a really long awake time at the end of the day. Thought we'd have a chance to try lengthening other awake times today but she just fell asleep on her playgym both times. So currently she's doing 2 hours for the first two awake times and 3.5-4 hours for the last. It seems completely wrong according to everything I know about baby sleep but if it works for her...

Will continue to see how it goes!

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