How long do you let your baby take a nap?

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My baby girl is two months today! Yay ♥️🥰
She takes about 3 naps a day some of those naps varies from 30 minutes to and 1 hour. That’s the shortest naps she takes but then she takes long one like 3 hr naps. Sometimes I wake her up if she goes passed 2 1/2 hrs but then she gets cranky and wants to go back to sleep so Should I let her nap until she wakes up or wake her up? How long do you let your little one nap? 
So far it hasn’t affected her night time sleep she wakes up once at night for her nightly feed and then goes back to sleep.

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Never wake a sleeping baby worked fine for us 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I let both my girls sleep whenever they want and it never affect their sleep schedules. I know some babies get flipped and it’s hell, but I personally never had any issues. I was careful about total darkness though and routines, just to try and keep them straight at night. But naps were fair game

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Why in the world would you wake a 2 month old up from a nap??

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I let them sleep until they wake on their own.

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Once baby regains their birth weight, I always let them sleep.

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Thank you so much everyone, this really helps knowing that I can let her sleep until she wakes up on her own. ☺️

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As long they want!

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I let her nap at that age. The midwife told us it might be a growth spurt and some babies sleep more if they're already feeding enough during these times, so told us to let her sleep.

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I don’t consider my baby’s sleeping ‘naps’ at this point. He eats every 3 hours and sometimes he sleeps the whole time in between, sometimes he falls asleep right after eating and wakes up an hour before the next feeding or stays awake and falls asleep later. So far that’s worked for us for now. At night, he sleeps the whole time in between feedings, and now will sometimes sleep for 4 hours! He’ll be 8 weeks on Thursday.

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I let my baby sleep as long as he wants during the day.  I try to keep him up as long as possible after 5 pm but if he's fussy I just let him sleep.  He's been sleeping through the night pretty much since 1 1/2 months.

How long do you let your baby take a nap?

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