Naps?!?! What’s that?

Question

Okay, to start, we are VERY lucky. Our 5 month old daughter has been sleeping through the night for a decent amount of time. However, her naps are terrible! We might get in 3 random 30 minute naps a day, and then she’s super cranky by like 6:30!! Has anyone dealt with this? Any tips??

Answer

Babies have a set amount of time they can sleep in a 24 hour period (wake-time to wake-time). If your LO is using up most of the allotted sleep at night, naps will suffer.
However, naps are important! We've moved to a 10 hour night and 4 hours spread throughout the day in naps. My LO is shifting from 5-4 naps so they're kind of all over as far as length, which is fine. As long as at least one is over an hour (I usually hold him for one because he rarely makes it to an hour on his own). 
Check out Patience Bleskan's blog. She's got a short series on sleeping myths, and one of them has a chart for how much sleep babies *need* (not how much people claim they need, bit what they really need based on research).

Naps?!?! What’s that?

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