Nap lengths?

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Heading into 7 months, LO is “supposed to” move from 3 naps to 2. I saw other moms posting about their two hour long naps 😳 but she rarely sleeps longer than 30 min! So we definitely wouldn’t get the recommended amount of sleep and the wake windows would be too long if we dropped to 2. Anyone else?

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I don’t control or try to limit any naps or sleep my daughter gets. I have never really timed her naps. I put her down for a nap when I can tell she needs one and put her to bed when she’s tired. The times and lengths and amounts change and I just follow her lead. I don’t think there’s a right or wrong unless your child is asleep all day long or only sleeps a few hours each night.

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My little guy still takes 3-4 naps. We are working on stretching out his naps by increasing his wake times to 2.5-3 hours. It is not unusual for him to nap 30 min, but with increasing his wake time he has been giving us at least one long nap ranging from 1.5-2 hours. As long as he is happy and isn’t cranky I don’t worry too much about it.

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My LO is 7 months tomorrow and takes 4 naps a day all 30mins each. It works for us and I'm not planning to try and cut down to less at the moment as he seems happy 😊

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My little one randomly just started having longer naps and dropped his 3rd one by himself. As far as I'm concerned he will just do things at his own pace. As long as baby is happy and healthy I wouldnt try to cut the nap out =).

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Yup!
9am nap is usually an hour and 20
1pm ish nap is 30-45 min
Occasional 430/5pm nap is 30 min
Bedtime is at 630/7pm regardless of naps
Really wish he would extend that 1pm nap. I feel like he would sleep a lot better at night if he did. 😴

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Most days it's 3 naps unless he gives me a long nap in the morning then I'll stretch his wake time a bit and aim for a "hopeful" longer nap later afternoon. Bed time is always between 630-7pm depending on naps.

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My little man will be 8 months on the 2nd and only naps once a day.  (rarely twice if we were up early) He only naps for an hour sometimes 1&1/2

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We are still a week from 7 months, but she takes 3-5 naps still. I haven’t been able to settle her into the scheduled naps like a lot of people on here describe.

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Mine is on 2 naps, but I was under the impression that was fairly early? Think they generally drop from 3 to 2 between 7 and 9 months. Mine just did it naturally herself, then she lengthened her own naps from there - we went from 3 x 30mins to 2 x 1-1.5hrs. I'd just go with what baby does naturally xx

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