Capping naps?

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Do you cap naps? My baby will often take a really long morning nap if I let him (over 1 hr 30 min) and he’s only able to stay awake about 3 hours before he needs another... he wakes before 6 and takes his first nap just after 8:15-8:30. Usually I wake him at 1.5 hours, but should I? Or at 2 hours? He still usually needs 3 naps to make it to bedtime so sometimes ends up with a late one which I also cap so he’s awake by 4 or 4:30 so he can go to bed at 6:30 and he usually falls asleep well then.

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I don’t cap..their brains and bodies need the sleep to process what they learned throughout the day. If my daughter naps longer than usual, I just assume she needs it

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I cap naps at 2 hours.

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I only cap the nap after two hours. Baby girl takes two naps during the day, sometimes a small catnap after dinner. But usually the schedule is
Wake 7-7:30am
Nap 9-11
Nap 1-3
Bedtime 6:30-7pm

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I only cap the 3rd nap at 5:30. If there is one.

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I wish my sons only napped 20-30 minutes from day one 😒 🤣xx

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I don’t cap naps I let her sleep for as long as she wants. She usually gets up between 8-9 with a bedtime around 9:30. Her first nap is around 11 and her second is around 3. She is up by 5-5:30 and goes strong until bedtime. Naps range from 45 min to 2.5 hours long.

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I always wish my son naps for longer, he barely naps for 30 minutes. On the rare occasion that he does nap for 1:30 minutes, I thank God :)
My grandmother always says to let kids sleep for however long they want. I guess their body just tells them how much they need.

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I've never capped. I figure if he's that tired then he needed it.

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I only cap a nap if he is sleeping past 4pm. For example, he falls asleep around 4:15pm or so (rare but he sometimes still needs his third nap). If he isn’t awake at 5pm, I wake him. I refuse to let him nap if it’s after 5pm. We start bedtime routine at 6pm and he is usually asleep by 7pm until 7am.

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I was having this struggle when my little girl was still taking three naps. When we dropped a nap we no longer had that issue. If a baby has three hour wake windows and takes 1-2 hour naps then they should be able to make it 12 hours (6-6 or 7-7) on two naps. 
The first week was a rough adjustment but it was worth it.

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