How much sleep does your 9/10 month old have?

So my little girl usually has 3/4 hours in the day and 10 at night but online it says it should be 11-12 hours in the night. Would reducing nap times help her sleep longer at night? She now wakes up at 5/6 and goes to bed around 8pm, she used to go bed at 9 and wake 7/8.

Just worried about reducing naps as her wake windows are only 3 hours so we have 9-11 and 2-4 are nap times and then stretch out the last wake window before bed, can’t see how else it’ll work as she won’t go bed any earlier :)

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Honestly, if she's doing good I wouldn't change a thing.

My son mostly only naps 2h a day *tryst me, im trying to increase this). Then I try to get him to sleep 11 hours, but he mostly won't get more than 10. I know he needs more but he just won't.

you don’t think 4 hours in the day is too much? She always seems so tired so I don’t bother waking her

Hey! At her 9 month appt a couple weeks ago the doctor said 10 hours a night minimum. We also only hit between 9.5-10 hours a night.

I think total sleep for them should be 13.5-14 hours so if they’re only hitting 10/night makes sense to have longer naps. Our schedule is similar following wake windows ☺️

Cute baby!!!!
Ours is sometimes 4 hours a day but he’s learning a lot right now, crawling etc buuuut his night sleep has gone to pot so maybe I should be waking him… I figure in a years time maybe even less this will all be a distant memory so trying not to stress too much 🥰 x

She sounds like she is doing great. I don’t think I’d read too much into it if she’s happy. Every baby is different and has different sleeps needs. I feel like we have so much pressure to schedule everything about our babies and it’s causing to much mom anxiety.

My daughter sleeps a lot! Usally 4-6 hours of naps and around 10 at night. Everyone told me to change her naps so she’ll sleep through the night ( wakes up once or twice for couple minutes) but I’ve tried and she doesn’t do well. Plus with work and her being in daycare 3 days a week she doesn’t like to nap at daycare. I just stick to our schedule and it’s worked. If your baby is doing good and getting a total amount of hours I wouldn’t worry.

We are about 9.5 night/2.5 day. I've tried A LOT of things to increase it, but it just doesn't happen. I think some babies just sleep less, just like some adults sleep less.

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I’m a FTM to a beautiful baby boy, who will be 3 weeks old tomorrow but sleep, or lack of sleep in this case, is a source of anguish in our house at the moment and it got me thinking about the information we are given as new mamas.

I get there are rules about safe sleeping to prevent SIDS, and I understand why we have them BUT why is other information that were given on sleeping a little contradictory to this?

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