Long naps

My 3 month old has started napping for 2- 3 hours in the afternoon this week out of nowhere. His nighttime sleep has also gone to 6-9 hour stretches with no feeds (EBF). Is this normal? He used to sleep 4/5 hours, feed and then sleep another 3/4 hours.

Would you wake baby earlier than 2/3 hour nap during the day. It’s normally somewhere around 2pm he starts these naps.

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My baby has started to do the same. Long naps or lots of little ones and then doing long stretches in the night, I was worried at first but now I’m just making the most of the sleep 😂 I wouldn’t wake them personally.

If theyre sleeping well at night with no witching hour before bed.. then just embrace it whilst you can! No need to wake them at this age unless they're not gaining enough weight.

Yes! He’ll otherwise do 30 minute on the dot naps . I haven’t let him nap beyond 3 hours before to see if it impacts his nighttime sleep tbh… I’m too scared to mess up the good stretches we’ve been getting 😂

The constant living in fear of messing up their sleep when it is on a good streak is real! Haha

I’m so glad I’ve just read this post!! Baby is 3 months 3 weeks and he’s currently napping… about to hit the 3 hour mark! As started doing this long nap about this time the last week or so!

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