Naps? How many and how long?

Question

How many naps and how long? Do you ever wake them from a long nap? So my 4 month old sleeps maybe 45 mins in the morning then will take a 3 hour nap sometimes until around 3 or 4 and I give him another cat nap around 5 maybe for 45 mins bedtime at 8 and usually wakes around 8am (Is up 4 times at night lately) I’m wondering if this is too much day time sleep. Should I wake him after two hours for his long nap?
He used to sleep through the night until about a month ago. He also only napped two shorts 40 min naps yesterday and was still up at 2,4,5:30,7. Just trying to find a happy medium it’s just tough because I don’t wanna cut his long nap short in case he doesn’t nap at all the rest of the day. I don’t know. Lol

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I read somewhere that 1.5-2.5 hour naps are normal, but more than 3 hours is too much. 
My baby has mostly 30 minute cat naps. About 3 naps. Once in a while she'll sleep 2.5 hours. 
Catnaps are normal for this age, according to Babysleepscience.com: https://www.babysleepscience.com/single-post/2014/02/12/Common-Age-by-Stage-Sleep-Schedules
They'll start napping a little longer starting 5-6 months. And right now they should be sleeping 12-16 hours in a 24 hour period.

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12 hours at night and 3 hours during the day is common at this age. 3 naps a day. 
Your little one is probably waking because he's sleeping so much during the day. 
I'd go by wake times for naps. About 2 hours between naps.

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My baby still takes 4-5 naps but I think that's because he will only nap for 30ish minutes. Nothing I do will lengthen his naps. He doesn't even sleep for 3 consecutive hours at night. I would be jumping for joy if he slept for 3 hours!! 
I say enjoy the time. It's normal for babies to go through a sleep regression at this age so that's probably why he's waking up more at night

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We’ve been doing two naps. Sleeps from about 6:30 pm to 6:30 am with one feed at night. Morning nap is 45 min to 1.5 hours and after noon nap is 2-3.5 hours. If everything runs on the short end, she’ll take an afternoon cat nap and bedtime will be later. I was cutting the second nap at 2 hours, but I can rarely get her to take the third, so I stopped an am letting her sleep.

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one at 10am-11:30am in the morning then a long one from 1pm-5pm

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