Nap routine

Do we need a nap routine at 12 weeks?

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You don't necessarily need one. I think it depends on the baby!

We go with the flow, as I found it too stressful to follow scheduled naps. Works well for us 😊

Same baby just reached 12 weeks and just following baby cues at the moment so no routine and working well for us

Personally I go with the flow of it all.my LG is 11 weeks and she’ll stay awake happily for about 1.5 hours before she starts getting grumpy and I’ll put her down and then she’ll sleep 20 mins - 2 hours and then we will just restart until we see sleepy signs. Following a routine and schedule is so stressful it’s just easier to do what works for you x

Same, 11 weeks, naps when we see some sleepy cues. Some days she just doesn't fancy sleeping much and some days multiple naps! We like to keep it flexible and lead by her as it's easier to go out and about and know she will nap when out when she wants and we don't have to restrict ourselves from doing anything based on her schedules

We follow their sleep cues and awake windows as a guide

I’m just letting her sleep whenever at the moment but it does feel like she’s asleep most of the day still. I’m not used to it as my first baby just never slept ! X

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Dropping to 1 nap?

My girl is 13 months tomorrow. The last couple of weeks there has been days where she is only having 1 nap.

She usually goes down around 9.30 and can sleep for 40mins- 2.5hrs. If at home, they’ve been getting longer. Then we go out and about and she often goes till bedtime 6.30/7.30. Sometimes she’ll fall asleep in the afternoon in the car, but when at childcare etc she often refuses to sleep in the afternoon.

She does manage with 1 nap as long as it is a long one. The only issue being she struggles to stay awake past 9.30/10 in the morning, so is often waking 12.30 at the latest, which then makes the afternoon really long, and she can get very grumpy in the afternoon/evening where she’s tired!

Contact naps

Am I making it more difficult for myself long term by allowing contact naps during the day? She doesn’t like her naps in the pram and doesn’t stay down very long when I do put her down in the day… -she doesn’t like lying flat due to reflux… 9/10x she’s ok in her cot at night. 15 week old.

Nap schedule help please 🙏

My baby is 6.5 months old. I have followed huckleberry loosely as I find the articles useful to read for each month. Especially the recommended wake window times for each age. I still have always gone off his sleep cues whilst having those recommendations in mind. I have never paid for the sweet spot as I have followed my instincts. He used to only nap on me when he was younger and then I started putting him in his crib for naps and he used to only managed 45 minutes. Now he is sleeping longer and Huckleberry recommends 1 hour 15 in morning then 1 hour 30 and then a 30 minute nap to get through to bedtime. I am waking him up from the naps and sometimes finding the 30 minute nap hard to get him down and not beneficial as then it gives him later bed time. But sometimes it does help stop him be over tired. Is anyone else baby this age on two long naps at this point? It recommends he sleeps about 3.5 hours in day time. Just to add I have also started making sure he is awake 7am because it was affecting the rest of the days sleep etc.

Unsettled baby

Anyone else in the same boat? I’m really struggling with how ‘unsettled’ baby is. She cries a lot, even when we have tried everything. She’s a bit of a fomo baby so fights naps too 🙄

I feel really uncomfortable going out anywhere because 90% of the time she cries and I can’t do anything to settle her.
I feel self conscious when in public and it’s making feel isolated, I don’t want to go to baby groups because I feel that she will cry the whole time.

Nocturnal Baby

Had my second daughter on Aug 5th, and since being home the little pickle has had one good sleep night and is basically nocturnal since. For the life of me I can't remember what it was like or what we did with my first. Am I just gonna have to sleep earlier and fight through 😩

Only contact naps during the day

I have a 12 week old and the only way she will nap during the day is by contact napping. I am then trapped as I can’t put her down as she will wake up immediately. I have tried the carrier which does work too, but I feel bad for having her in it too much as it’s quite limiting on what she can see and makes us both hot with the weather being so warm.

Any tips for getting baby to nap in their crib/bassinet?