did you ever successfully consolidate naps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP -- You and I are on the exact same schedule with our kids. My DS is 6.5 months old's schedule is sometign like this:

Wake up - 6:15
Nap #1 - 8 (but we just recently pushed this from 7:45)
Sleeps 8-8:45

nap #2 - 10:30-1 and sleeps 45 mins

nap #3 - around 2:30-3

Bedtime is 7pm./ he is so exhausted by 6:45 that he sometimes falls asleep when DH is giving him his last bottle. So we are going to start nighttime bottle, bath and bedtime at 6 and try for a 6:30 bedtime.

I would do anythign for a longer am nap -- or any nap. We can depend on exactly 40 minutes for him to nap. Do ing all the same stuff as you are - thankfully he STTN 7-6:15.

Meant to writenap #2 is around 10:30-11

[Anonymous]

I think he's just not old enough yet. My DD was still taking 4 45 min naps a day until about 7 months, then she starting staying asleep longer and longer, until she got to two 1.5-2 hour naps and a third 45 min nap around 8 months. Of course, just when I thought she might be ready to go to two naps, she learned how to crawl and has been having trouble staying asleep again. But after a couple of weeks she's starting to get back to her 3 longer naps - she turns 9 months this week.

[Anonymous]

OP here - thanks for the input, all. I'm just worried that he's tired all the time. I mean, I go out...but I'm like a prisoner to his naps! lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - thanks for the input, all. I'm just worried that he's tired all the time. I mean, I go out...but I'm like a prisoner to his naps! lol

OP, Im, the pp wityh the same schedule. Wow, you sound like me. I wrote so many post on DCUM about naps. So many that people started to get pretty darn snarky about the nap poster. I just couldnt figure it out. He seems tired and irritable sometimes soon after he wakes up after a nap. I randomly get a 2 hour nap but I run around for 45 mins showering, eating, getting ready for work, and I never know if that nap will be the nap that he sleeps for 45 mins or 2 hours. I cant get anything done or visit with anyone because the naps are always right around the corner and because they are so unreliable. I get out on days off and on weeekends and our plan is that the first nap (since it is so quick) is always at home, then as soon as he gets up we get him ready and head out (if we need to) either that 2nd or 3rd nap is in the stroller or in the car. DH and I are slaves to the naps. We know people who are out traveling with sleepy 6 month olds and out late and we would just never do that to out lil one.

[Anonymous]

We started doing 2-3-4 around that time, which is when mine (very similar) finally consolidated. The schedule was something like this -- wake up at 7:00. First nap TWO hours later 9:00 - 10:00. Second nap THREE hours later 1:00 - 3:00. Sleep time FOUR hours later 7:00. At that age, that totally did NOT happen. In reality, it was more like "wake up between 6 and 7, nap time around 9 for 30-40 minutes. Second nap around 1:00 for 30-40 minutes. If really tired, fall asleep nursing around 5:30 for 15-20 minutes. Bedtime at 7:30. Eventually the naps started getting longer (we started extending them, especially the afternoon one, and that helped) and now we're not quite at the ideal schedule mentioned above, but pretty close.

[Anonymous]

Neither of my kids napped more than 45 minutes until they went to 1 nap at 15 months. Then they napped 2-3 hours. Both were champion night sleepers.