Naps

My little boy is 5 months on Saturday and I don’t cap his naps, he doesn’t tend to nap more than 30/40 mins during the day so if he does happen to do a long one I feel he must need it so leave him to it!

I try not to cap naps but I will if it’s going to affect feeding times and the rest of the days schedule. I try and do it as nicely as possible 🫣

We always let ours sleep, tried capping a few times and it was just awful! If we knew the last nap needed to be short we’d do it in the pram or carrier as he was more liable to wake up naturally when movement stopped c

I let my baby girl sleep when she wants to sleep. She also sleeps right through the night. Wakes about 6am every morning x

Id say it depends on how baby sleeps at night. My daughter wouldnt sleep at night sonwe had to cap her naps. Whereas my son sleeps v well n i just let him nap when he wants

My girl is 5 months and a serious fomo baby!!!! Can barely get 20 minute naps with all the effort in the world🫣 if she wants to sleep we let her sleep as long as she wants

My daughter is 5 months tomorrow as well! I have put her in her own room for naps since Monday and she went from 20 minutes a time up until 2 hours now. She almost had a 3 hour nap on Tuesday so I capped it at 2h 30m that was her second nap of the day and she didn’t have a third in the end.

We let him sleep as much as he needs, however we do feeds every 3hrs so if a nap crosses over with that we will still feed, sometimes he wakes and other times itll be a sleepy feed. I'd say dont bother waking the little one up, they wouldn't be sleeping if they didnt need to. Maybe if you dont already try tracking wake windows (Baby Tracker is a good app for it), it has helped us massively with knowing when he's due a sleep to avoid overtiredness x

I would say all babies are different and just go with what works for them right now. A routine will naturally come.

My LO will only have 30 min naps at a time so the whole 3 naps a day rule doesn’t work for us as his wake windows are only stretching to 2hr/2 and a half hours. Any longer than that and he declares war on us!

My LO is 5 months next week and to be honest every day is so different. Some days he’ll have 3 hours of day sleep and others 4 hours or more, completely depends on the day and night but overall looking at 24 hour period. Every day differs some times total sleep will be less than 12 hours overall and sometimes 14 hours! Zero consistency which is super frustrating but I just tend to go with the flow - he’ll only have one long nap which is usually a contact nap and falls anywhere between 11:30am - 1pm (again depending on naps in the morning) but otherwise they only last 20-40 mins max if in crib or stroller. He doesn’t sleep through the night and wakes up anywhere between 40 mins to 2 hours after being put down for bed, I’ve tried every trick in the book and nothing seems to change so I’m not going to force anything right now and hopefully a routine will come naturally as he gets older 🤞 so hard though as you crave time to yourself especially in the evenings!!

So we tried just letting her sleep as and when she wanted to and she’s slept through continuously for the past two nights 🥹🥹