Nap routines
Do you guys have a strict nap routine? Up to this point I’ve been following babies cues more than anything but today he had a really long third nap so I’m currently having to try to stretch the last wake window until bedtime (last time I offered a short catnap and woke him up, her was absolutely furious and bedtime was a nightmare 😬)
He’s normally up around 6am (awake a bit earlier but I wait until he’s fussing just incase he settles), was on an average of 4 naps and bedtime at 7pm.
Today he woke from his nap at 3:20pm and I don’t think I can delay bedtime any later than 6:30 🫣
Just wondering if a stricter routine would help maybe 🤷🏼♀️
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Just to add - in the week we often do things like playgroup etc that we wouldn’t be able to do if implementing a routine
I don’t. Mine does only half an hour naps + one 1 or 1.5 hours which I’m extending.
Other than that he just sleeps in the pram, car, bed, on me 🤷♀️
He is sleeping like this since week 12 and we are week 18 now.
My son will sleep for half an hour normally. He’s a struggle to get down for a nap (which is always a contact nap) during the day. I use the paid version of Huckleberry to tell me when he should be napping (it’s fairly good). But every day is different.. we are most certainly not in a routine yet!
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