"typical" A time

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

Hiya! Gage is almost 7.5 months, and I was wondering what "typical" A times are? I just dont want to get behind because is was H*LL getting to a 4hr EASY. Gage is primarily a textbbok baby. I know all babies are different, but if I  have a baseline it will be easier.
Thanks,
Alice

[RachelC]

Alice,
I don't know what "typical" is, but my dd is awake between 2-2.5 hours in the morning and 2.5-3 hours in the afternoon.  She is then up 3.5-4 hours until bed.
HTH
~Rachel

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

Thanks for response PaigeJalyn! That is about what Gage is doing. We are having trouble with early wakenings and needing a catnap. Has your dropped the catnap?

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

hi stacy! Looking back at my log the early wakenings appear even when their is not cat nap.   I dont know what is going on. Maybe part of problem is that after the cat nap his A time is only 1.5-2hrs. If I put him to bed early then he will wake even earlier. I think that he only needs about 11-11.5 hrs of night sleep. Or maybe I need to cut his naps short? He is only getting 3-3.5 hrs of day sleep.

[*Natasha*]

Hi Gage's Mum,

How is everything going with you?
Catherine has just over the last few weeks extended her awake time as her naps were starting to get shorter again  So now she is doing 3.15-3.5hrs between naps and bedtime.
Before that so between 5-8months her awake time was 2.5hrs before AM nap, 3hrs before PM nap and 3hrs before bedtime. Her night sleep has gone from 12hrs to 11/11.5hrs  and she is now having 2 naps her morning one is now 2hrs again  and her PM is usually 1-1.5hrs if i am lucky.
Good luck

[RachelC]

Gage's Mom,
We dropped the catnap some time ago... it was too much of a fight.  Jalyn's A time at the end of the day is up to 4 hours (she typically wakes at 3/3:30 from nap and is up until bed at 7)
~Rachel

[LŠuren]

Alice
Our A time is;
3hrs to 1st nap from waking
3 - 3.5hr between nap 1 & 2
sometimes 4.5hr+ to bedtime, refuses a catnap and will not sleep at bedtime if I do not wake him from his last nap before 4pm.


Today we where 3 then 4 then 4 hours, his 1st nap was 1.5hrs and so was the 2nd 

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

Thanks ladies! We took our first long trip (which I was totally nervous about) today and Gage slept in car for 45 min Each day we gain a little more freedom Anyway my bub was up for about 5 hrs before bed, and he seemed fine in fact too fine. I really couldnt tell he was even tired! He has been asleep for almost and hour and all is well so far. Cross your fingers for us.

P.S. 5 hours is too long right? I wonder if it was because he was in the car for 2+ hours and not burning much energy. Oh well what ever works right.

[LŠuren]

Stacy
Here was yesterday;

Wake 0615 
E 0730 - not hungry straight away
A
S 0915 - 1030  1hr 15min
A
E 1200
A  - had to ext a little for clinic, wanted to get him weighed - hadn't done for ages
S 1420 - 1620 1 hr 50min
A
E 1630
A inc bath @ 1900
E 1920 ish    10oz
S Last night 1950 (mostly in cot awake for 1930 - 1945 sometimes sleeps straight off, sometimes 20mins and a little fussing)

Still wakes bright as a button at 5am probably 3 out of 7 mornings    and I need to get him back to sleep, any suggestions?? bearing in mind he refuses a catnap and will not sleep at bedtime if I do not wake him from his last nap before 4pm. Last week his nap ended at 1645 and he refused to sleep until 2030  on those evenings I put him in his cot awake and leave him to settle to sleep with himself.

[LŠuren]

Stacy he always goes for a nap after 3hours in the morning, any earlier he wants to play - he is like a light at the 3hr mark, jumping about 1 minute then out for the count sleeping.

The othr monring I woke at 4am (for the loo) I thought I would be smart and try W2S, when I peeked in his door his leg where up in the air (still sleeping a think) so I gave it a miss.

[KellyC]

When you suss out the early morning wakings Lauren make sure you pass on the secret!  Zander's getting up at 5.45/6 every day - little monkey    I've been thinking about wake to sleep but I'm doing it for his naps at the moment so might give it a miss for a while.  For his pm nap I did wake to sleep - he definitely stirred, in fact he opened his eyes and rolled over, and he still woke at the 40 minute mark and I had to get him back to sleep, grrrr!

Alice - Zander would go 3 hours before his first nap but I try to make the first A time of the day the shortest so he's been going down after 2.5 hours and usually has a good nap.  His A time until his second nap is 3.5 hours and his last A time is too long because he's up so early in the morning!  I'm planning to put him to bed at 6.30pm tonight to see where that takes us - he'll probably be up from his pm nap at around 3pm so that will be another 3.5 hours.  Tomorrow he'll have to have a short am nap as we have an appointment for a portrait sitting so it will be interesting to see how this affects his day - it's kind of forcing me to experiment a bit!

Kelly x



Kelly x

[LŠuren]

What does everyone reckon is a decent 'A' time from last nap to bedtime???

[LŠuren]

how old is Kaleb?

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

Well ladies, I had an interesting day yesterday. Gage usually wakes between 5:30-6:15 (It must be an age thing) and very rarely at 7:15. Anyway, like I said we had our first big trip yesterday so I have no choice but to put him to bed at 6:00 which I am so fearly of doing as Gage is already an early bird. I was shocked to find that Gage slept until 7:15  with a 2am feed (his eating wasnt great that day).

Here is yesterdays schedule:

6:15 wake
8:40 sleep

10:30 wake
12:30 sleep in car
1:18 wake

6:00 bed

2am feed
7:15 wake

I think his nap lengths made him more tired to sleep through until 7am. He only had 2hr 15 min with a VERY long A time before bed. Maybe our early risers only need around 2 hrs. Just a thought.

[KellyC]

I put Zander to bed at 6.30 tonight and he was asleep by 6.45 so I'll see what that brings!!  Looks from this evening that a 3.75-4 hour final A time would suit us but I wanted to get an early night in and see what happens.  Lucky you getting a lie in!