Do you wake your baby from naps or do you let them sleep as much as they want?

I dont wake her but her naps are so short that I dont have to haha. I would only wake her if it is the last nap.if the day and it is getting quite late so it will impact on bedtime.

His naps are always short so I have no need to

Only if it’s coming past 3pm which then affects his bedtime

I don’t work here so I don’t need him to sleep through or up by a certain time in the morning Etc so I always let him sleep for however long, if he’s had a late nap otw from somewhere (we are always coming home at 3 and he naps in the car) j will put bedtime back 30mins-1hr if needed. Some mornings he’s woken to himself at 11am and unless we don’t have anything on, I don’t wake him.

Unless my 2.5 yo happens to go down late in the afternoon and sleep for 3 hours, lol. Then I get her up cause I need her to sleep at night 🤣 other than that, I never wake a sleeping child...especially my 2.5 yo cause she's a terror if woken lol.

I almost always wake my LG from naps and nearly almost always have. When she was itty bitty I would wake her if she was due to eat or if she'd been sleeping for 2 hours. Now that she's over 2, I wake her at the 2 hour mark if she's still sleeping because I've found that if she sleeps longer than that her nights are shorter. Good naps lead to good nights, but I've found that too much day time sleep negatively impacts night sleep so I try to balance that

My baby is 9 months old. I cap at the 2 hour mark unless she’s sick. She only occasionally goes that long though. I also don’t let any nap go past 5pm. Reasonings are to not affect bedtime or night sleep :)

Yes we follow huckleberry schedules, so when LO was very small we would only wake her to feed, then for a while I only woke her at 2 hours, by 7 months I woke her after the huckleberry nap length and she switched to 2 naps so we started to go by a schedule based on her wake windows. I like knowing what is happening when. I also firmly believe day sleep (too much or too little) can affect the night, and I like knowing she'll go to sleep at 8pm and I'll have a couple of hours to chill.

We cap our LO’s naps @ 2 hrs. We’ve also found that if he sleeps too much too late, then he wakes in the middle of the night

Only sometimes if he’s sleeping way past his usual wake time and I know it’ll cause him to be up all night, then I’ll wake him

When she was younger than 6 weeks I wouldn’t let her go more than 2.5 hours between feeding in the daytime (but as long as she wanted at night) and sometimes that meant waking her up from naps. Now we let her nap as long as she wants and that’s nearly always between 30 and 90 minutes. Once, after her vaccines, she had nap longer than 3 hours and we just let her have it! I did sit in her room while she napped for the last hour of that to make sure she was still breathing. And I opened her curtains after a while so it wouldn’t throw off her day/night rhythm.

Most of the time yes because he will sleep all day lol but if he's sick or teething no

Rarely. Usually only if he went down for a nap late so it's a concern with bedtime, but I try not to let that happen because he'll be cranky all evening if he hasn't had his 3 hr beauty rest.

I didn't as a newborn but I do now. I started capping my oldests naps at around 2 so he had a 9pm bedtime most of his life. I started capping my seconds naps earlier, she's 1 now, and I prefer her to go bed between 7 and 8. Eg today she was still sleeping after 1.5 hours which is long for her, so I helped her wake up.

@Helen very true, as newborns they wake up for a feed or dirty nappy. It really depends , when my children were babies if they took late naps, I'll allow them at least 1.5,2 hour naps max. Sometimes 1 hr, it allows to them not to go sleep too late

I used to watch my little ones (5 months) wake windows and nap times, forcing to sleep and waking up. I stopped 3 days ago and now he sleeps better through the night! Went from 5+ wake ups to 1 with a feed

I wake if it’s been 2 hours, getting close to messing up his last wake window or if he’s going to go over his recommended 3.5 hours.

Before my son went to one nap, I capped his naps at 2 hours. Now that he’s on one nap, I cap them at 3 hours.

I found they really need it and will be ok if late for a feed etc. They will make if they need a feed or drink etc. When they're no longer toddler then I make some noises around the room and floor and wake her that way. A full on direct wake up leads to an awful meltdown here

@Helen now my children are older and school age it's a little better, however I am currently pregnant so I'll be going through it again next year as I'm due in December 😩🙏🏾🙏🏾😆😅😅

I wake her up at 3 hours if she isn’t awake before that. She usually is though

My 13 week old has not napped for more than 2 hours in her bassinet in weeks lol so no need to wake her.

Oh man, I wish I had that problem… I’m trying to lengthen day naps because sometimes they are just 15-30 minutes so when I get 1-1.5 hrs, I’m so happy

Mine is almost 3 months, I wake her up if she’s sleeping over 2 hours for a nap (very rare) because she’ll need to eat soon. I mostly pay attention to wake windows, and she sleeps pretty well at night so it’s working!

Waking them up actually reduces the amount of sleep hormone and will make bedtime sleep worse

I just let my baby sleep as much as he want because he looks just so fresh, happy and shows more Interest in what I want him to learn...like books. And I also sure that his naps doesn't interfere with his night sleep.

I wouldn't wake my baby up for all king midas's gold lol

He sleeps as long as he likes, but I try to not have him sleep past 5:15 if he has bed time at 7....but Ive been pretty loosy goosy about bedtime lately

Don't let her sleep in the car. I take her to her crib if we go home or drive around more. Wake up for food. That is it. Don't want low sugar

If it's past 2 hours yes . She like to play all day and run wild and sleep in the early evening 🌆