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5 and 6 months old- naps
can you all please tell me what naps your babies are having? lizzie normally only cat naps for 10 mins about 3 times a day!
so today i took the bull by the horns and decided when i saw signs she was tired i would take her up to her cot, lie her down with her song thing on , give her her dummy and she if she would fall asleep, if she cried i would go in lie her back down (she tunrs into crawl position and gets angry she can barley move!) give dummy and start music again and do this until she fell asleep! well IT WORKED!!! yes it took the best part of 25 mins and i had to go in 3 times to lie her down but she has been asleep 30mins already!
am i best to do this twice a day? how many naps should she have and how long for as an estimate?
she will be 6 months on 29th
thanks
so today i took the bull by the horns and decided when i saw signs she was tired i would take her up to her cot, lie her down with her song thing on , give her her dummy and she if she would fall asleep, if she cried i would go in lie her back down (she tunrs into crawl position and gets angry she can barley move!) give dummy and start music again and do this until she fell asleep! well IT WORKED!!! yes it took the best part of 25 mins and i had to go in 3 times to lie her down but she has been asleep 30mins already!
am i best to do this twice a day? how many naps should she have and how long for as an estimate?
she will be 6 months on 29th
thanks
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however! if we are out for the day getting her to nap is a nightmare! i've actually gave up and just let her have as many catnaps as she like when we're out tbh. so she'll normally have about 5 15/30 min naps but sometimes it's as little as two 10 mins ones!
personally i know she is dying to stay awake longer as she fights sleep sooooooo much when we're out and this results in a cranky baby next day for me! but she's only a dinky 14lbs at nearly 6 months so she obviously just doesn't have the energy to do it yet lol
as flimpo says every LO is different and if they really really need sleep there'll be no stopping them napping! lol
My 6m old doesn't have a routine with naps but he generally has 3 or 4 naps a day, ranging from 30 minutes to 1 hour 15minutes, but not totalling more than 2 1/2 hours in a day. Hope that makes sense xx