3 to 2 nap transition - how?

Girl you’re so lucky your baby even naps . My baby only naps for like 10min lol 😂 is that even called a nap. Now she’s 8months and she naps for an hour 👏 to be honest I just go with the flow as I tried set a routine for my daughter but it did not work 😂. I follow her routine . I’m happy I can now rest a bit more 🙌🏽

Sounds harsh but we had to push to a 3 hour wake window. I kept him awake any way I could. First three days- hell. Now, 1.5 in the morning, 30-1 hour in the afternoon and 12.5 solid overnight. I promise you it works, but you have to stick it out. To add- baby only did 3 30 min naps before this and I never thought we would get better naps 😂

Following! My boy has just hit 8 month regression and I’m in sleep/ rest deprivation hell 🫠🫠🫠

No advice on the naps , but the airer my baby takes my knickers off when she’s in the walker and runs away with them hanging off her walker 🤣🤣

For right or wrong I have ended up pushing my LOs wake windows and she actually coped surprisingly well!
We do follow a rough schedule and have had to do very early bedtimes sometimes when her afternoon nap has been too short but it did amaze me how she copes with the longer wake windows.
9am first nap, usually an hour.
Second between 1.30 and 2pm (can be as short as 30mins)
Bedtime ideally 7 but often nearer 6.30pm

Don’t know whether you try to resettle with naps, like today, my LG woke after 38 mins…..but I went in, didn’t engage in looking or talking, just put my hand through the bar and held hers. After 6 mins she fell asleep again for 53 mins. Some days she’ll take up to 15 mins to resettle, other days she’s wide awake, babbling away and giggling and I know it’s not gonna work 🤣 always worth a try though.

Thank you , that's encouraging! My husband suggested the same. I was afraid he'll be too tired, but it's true that on some days, he can manage absolutely fine 🤔

I used to be able to resettle him about 4 months ago.. then it somehow stopped working so I stopped trying 😂 My mum tried though when she was here and had no luck 😞

that's a classic 🤣

Thank you!

My girl transitioned to 2 naps and started waking at 4am on the dot every morning.
We had to push bedtime back to 8:30 and got a 30 min nap in around 4:30/5pm and she’s finally started waking later again

bless you, contact naps are hard when you have to do things or look after other kids! 🙈
Mine also wakes 2-3x a night which I don't mind as that's at the moment the only time he actually properly breastfeeds and gets the calories in (too distracted during the day 🙄). It's the 4am wake ups that kill me 🫣

so you think she's transitioned too early before?
Mines started waking like this with 3 naps so I was actually hoping that cutting down a nap might help?

Far too early for her, of course every baby’s different. But my girl couldn’t cope with just the 2naps, she was incredibly over tired come bedtime which was causing the early wakes xx

Since our little one has gone onto two naps she seems to nap longer. If her second nap is early or not long we just move bed time forward. I use to worry she would work even earlier than she does. However she doesn’t tbh she still wakes up at her usual time.