How late do you let your babies nap?

Question

My baby is 6 weeks and we've had a pattern of having 1 easy day and 1 difficult day. I realized shes getting too much sleep on her easy days and then she's up all night and gets overtired leading to crankiness the next day. 
She had a difficult day today and didn't sleep much last night. She's been asleep for 45 mins and it's 7pm, when should I wake her up?

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My son was this way.. I’d let him sleep or he’d be even more grumpy. I heard that not letting baby sleep will effect the sleep at night. We are 10 weeks now and he’ll sleep a 8 hour stretch and I let him still sleep how much ever he wants and we still go to bed between 8-930

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Wow. I'm kind of jelly of the sleep it sounds like you guys are getting. My son is still on the three schedule. Eats every three hours and sleeps for the most part for 3 hours. Although recently he moved to letting me sleep 4-5 hrs after midnight (his last feed).

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I let her sleep however much she wants. As long as she gets her last bottle by 930p, and is in bed for the night by 10 she sleeps all night. Usually her last nap will be around 630-7ish at night. She will be 8 weeks tomorrow

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This helped me a lot and it really made a big difference in her sleep we’re currently at 5 weeks. She takes one big nap in the middle of the day (3hrs) and after that is little naps. At 6pm I start winding her down for bed. During the “bedtime” she will sleep 2hr stretches but once we get to “mid-night” she will sleep 4hrs straight, 45-1hr wake up for feeding and change, then she’s back asleep again for 3-4hrs.

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also i don’t wake her even if she is asleep at 6 or 7 because sometimes she’ll sleep for 5-6 hours from that time. it sucks that her long stretch is early but it still helps train her tummy to not wake up to eat!

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we find that if baby naps long during the morning / early afternoon and takes shorter naps late afternoon/ night she sleeps MUCH better at night. we’ve been getting consistent 5-6 hour stretches for The last week when she does this. this is her sleeping patterns if that helps you at all.

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During the day I try to only let him sleep for 2 hours between feedings. Also I make sure he takes a nap 60-90 min after waking and eating. I follow the E.A.S.Y model and taking Cara babies. If he has short naps I just watch him so he doesn’t get overtired and let him take cat naps. Over tiredness is definitely something to keep under control cus like you said every other day was bad. I was experiencing that until I really paid attention to his sleepy cues and made sure he napped or offered him a nap. I think waking them and controlling sleep during the day can help them determine day and night too. (The long sleep they’d associate with nighttime). I’d definitely check out takingcarababies on Instagram for tips, she helped us a lot!

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I let my LO nap whenever she wants, and she sleeps so good at night, she’s normally down around 9pm and usually wakes up once at 4am for a quick feed and nappy change, then she’s down again until about 7:30am. 2 days ago she had a late nap till about 8pm I thought she was going to struggle to sleep during the night, nope, went back to sleep easy around 10pm. I believe sleep breeds sleep so I’d let your LO have how ever many naps LO wants.

How late do you let your babies nap?

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