How long are you letting baby nap during the day?

Do you ever wake your baby up from a nap? I've heard that they shouldn't have any longer than 2 hours (which is very rare for my LO anyway), but I've also heard I should be capping naps at 1 hour and 15-30 mins, so much conflicting advice that it's very confusing!

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I just go with the flow and most nights my baby sleeps through the night now. I used to stress with my first but have been a lot more relaxed with my 2nd. Bedtime seems to fall anywhere between 8 and 9.30 depending on how the naps go in the day x

I don't wake him up, just go with the flow. His longest nap is when we go for a walk and it's around 1-1.5 hours if we're lucky.

I get my LO up now as sometimes she starts sleeping from 11 and doesn’t want to wake up until gone 2:30, our nights are starting to become better so I don’t want to ruin them! I usually let the middle of the day one he max 2.5 hrs

The two days she’s had the longest naps are the days she’s only woken once for me in the night (which is amazing for us), either they really help her sleep well at night or she has just been super tired on these days! But now I’m praying for long naps all the time 😂

I don't cap naps, yesterday my little guy had two naps of three hours each and hasn't affected his nighttime sleep. Sleep is so important at this age with their development so I go with the flow

Thanks girls, I feel slightly guilty that I've been waking her up. I've put her down for her morning nap today and she's still asleep (1 hour and 50 minutes later, so she clearly needs it). X

My boy is literally impossible to wake from naps lol or if you do manage it he's just SUPER grumpy, I just let him sleep how much he wants to as he clearly needs it. Also he slept way more than usual just before and a couple of days after giving us his first true smiles so obviously that was exhasting for him 😅😃

Also some babies and people naturally need more or less sleep than others. My MIL actually went to the docs about how much my husband slept as a little one and was told to just enjoy the peace 😅 now as an adult he needs significantly less sleep than I do to be able to function properly.

my baby naps anywhere between 20minutes to 2 hours.
if it starts to get to 2.5hours, i’ll wake him because otherwise he’ll get over tired but he’s always a happy baby when being woken up.

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