I know babies may be transitioning from 3 naps to 2 naps now and wanted to find out what this looks like?
- how long are wake windows
- how long are naps
- what is typical bed time and wake up time for the day
- what helped you transition to two naps
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Depends on when my baby wakes up but typically if he woke at 7am it would look like this:
2.5/3 hour wake window so first nap probably 9.30/10am
Nap would be an hour and 20 mins so end 11/11.30 then another 3 hours to 3.5 hour wake window.
Next nap 2/2.30 and this one is an hour to an hour and a 20mins so wake up around 3/3.30. Then an 3.5/4 hour wake window for a 7pm bed.
This doesn’t always happen, we get earlier rises and shorter naps but I’ve found with the afternoon if he sleeps to 2.30pm at the earliest I can stretch him to 6.30pm for an early bed and still be on 2 naps.

we are pretty much the same as this! Sometimes it doesn’t always go to plan though if he wakes up from naps early, in which case we do a 15 min ‘bridging nap’ around 4.30 x

Mine seems to have dropped her afternoon nap, which is absolutely infuriating. Her last nap she wakes around 1.30pm, then by 5pm shes screaming to go to bed, and it's impossible. She wakes around 6am, is normally having a nap by 8/8.30am until 9am. Then back to sleep at 11.30 am. Waking around 1/1.30. I have offered her the afternoon nap, and she's having none of it. Put her to bed at 6 pm yesterday because she was falling asleep sat up, and then she was awake from 10pm- midnight. Then awake at 4 am, then up at 6.

yeah we are the same and if we are out and about at the weekend and he needs a later bedtime we also do a bridge nap

So with every nap we dropped it just happened naturally i.e. her wake window just extended as she wasn’t tired enough.
Currently we have a 3h/3h/4h as wake windows. Nap one has now started to get longer and it’s 1h45 (previously ranged from 45mins to 1h30). Nap two is 45mins.
Wake up time is between 6am and 7am and then bedtime falls between 6pm and 7pm depending on naps etc.