Day naps?

How many naps are your 5/6 month olds having a day?

We’re still on 4 as we can’t seem to get out of the 30 min naps and 4 naps take him up until a reasonable bed time of 7/8pm!

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Mine is 6 months and has 4 most days, 2 of which are 1.5 hours if we’re home for them. They’re not robots so I think whatever suits you and your baby is fine so I’m not pushing to drop naps

Mine has 2 naps a day, both usually about 1.5 hours long x

We’re still at 4 sometimes 5 naps a day, only her second nap and last nap are an hour and over, the others are 15-30 min naps, still not set bed time neither as she still has 5 bottles of milk per day and that’s also not established! X

3 naps and nearly 6 months. Usually one long one of up to 2 hours - I try to not let her do more than 4 hours over the course of the day.

My baby's just turned 5 months and he has 3 1.5 hours and then a little cap nap just to see him through to bed time for about 20 mins x

My 6 month old has 3-4 a day, mostly 3 now they are 45 mins each 🙈 I am hopeful one day of some longer naps 😂 she’s asleep in bed between 6-7 and sleeps 12 hours so I can’t complain x

Still on 4 naps. She turned six months on Saturday

Were the same as you, 4 naps each around 45 mins occasionally one longer one but unpredictable which one and if it will happen!

3/4. My baby only naps for 30 mins.
Her routine is 2 hours awake, 30 min nap repeated all day until about 7pm for bedtime 😃

Still 4 naps as she only sleeps 30-40 minutes in the day x

2 naps, 30 mins absolute max and this has been the case for the last 3 weeks 🙃

3 naps and they vary anywhere between 45 minutes to 2 hours 😊

3 naps
3 hrs
45
45 and around 7pm bedtime wakes up around 11pm for feeds or 1am for feed

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I’m so sick of arguing with my husband over this.

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He has gone up to bed early to try and get more sleep because he feels like he’s exhausted to the point of headaches. (I am too, but it seems like this isn’t as important because I don’t go to work. He acknowledges that it’s hard work looking after her all day, this isn’t the problem). I have stayed downstairs with her, because to me, disturbing a sleeping baby only to put her in a crib for 30 minutes after settling her again, to feed her and then have to restart the process is ridiculous when she’s asleep already.

I feel like I do everything. I feed and settle her every time. When he can’t calm her down within 10 minutes he passes her back despite me having her all day and him not seeing her.

I love my daughter more than anything, and my husband is lovely, I swear. It’s just a really tough time with her sleep, and I’m struggling to cope. I’m so, so tired. And he doesn’t seem to realise this, because he is. We have talked about this so many times, but it just turns into an argument. Please tell me this will pass?

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