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Naps at 8 and a half months
How many naps/for how long should babies be having at 8 and a half minutes?
DS has 2/3 a day for an average of 45 mins per nap. But will sometimes miss out his afternoon nap. Yesterday he went from 1:50 to just gone 7pm without a nap ! I was impressed he managed to stay awake for so long - and was in a good mood !!!
Should I be dropping a nap yet ?? There doesn't seem enough time in the day what with his bottle feeds, solid feeds and naps !!!
I was thinking of dropping his morning nap (which he doesn't have until 10am anyway, he gets up at 7:15 in the morning) and then dropping his 11o/c feed and bringing his lunch forward to 11:45 and then putting him down for a nap at 12:30. Hoping he will have a good 2 hours at lunch ...
Does anyone have any thoughts?
At the moment his average day looks roughly like this ...
7:15 - get up
7:45 - bottle
8:45 - breakfast
10.00 - nap
11:00 bottle
12:30 - lunch
1:30 nap
3:00 - bottle
4:30 nap (sometimes)
5:30 - tea
6:30 - bottle
7:15 - bed
DS has 2/3 a day for an average of 45 mins per nap. But will sometimes miss out his afternoon nap. Yesterday he went from 1:50 to just gone 7pm without a nap ! I was impressed he managed to stay awake for so long - and was in a good mood !!!
Should I be dropping a nap yet ?? There doesn't seem enough time in the day what with his bottle feeds, solid feeds and naps !!!
I was thinking of dropping his morning nap (which he doesn't have until 10am anyway, he gets up at 7:15 in the morning) and then dropping his 11o/c feed and bringing his lunch forward to 11:45 and then putting him down for a nap at 12:30. Hoping he will have a good 2 hours at lunch ...
Does anyone have any thoughts?
At the moment his average day looks roughly like this ...
7:15 - get up
7:45 - bottle
8:45 - breakfast
10.00 - nap
11:00 bottle
12:30 - lunch
1:30 nap
3:00 - bottle
4:30 nap (sometimes)
5:30 - tea
6:30 - bottle
7:15 - bed
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Ava usually has 1.5 hours in a morning at 9.30 - 11ish ( this can vary some days). Then if she does have the full hour and half she has 30 - 45 mins in an afternoon around 2pm x
My LO has about an hour in the morning (about 2 hrs after he got up) then 1-1.5 in the afternoon after lunch 12.30 ish then he'll have maybe 30-45 mins before tea at 4pm ish. Sometimes he wont have the last one depends on the timings of him other naps.
Sx
My Lo is 8.5 months too.
our routine is
7am get up & bottle
8am -breakfast
9am - nap of around 45 mins
11.30am - lunch
12pm - nap of around 2hrs
5pm - teatime
6pm - bath
6.15pm - bottle
6.30pm - bed
we dropped the afternoon nap a while ago, he settles so well for his other naps but kept crying for this one, so I just gave up putting him down. He is tired by bedtime that's why he goes to bed a bit eralier