Never wake a.....

[CornishDoll82]

Sleeping baby.

If my 8 month old decides she wants to take a long nap in the AM should I wake her?

[MariaV0nTrapp]

I wouldn't.

Currently trying to get my 7 month old to sleep. I'm ill and she's driving me bonkers.

[waitingforsomething]

My 7.5 month old always takes a long morning nap. I don't wake him unless I need to go out. Why do you want to wake?

[FATEdestiny]

Why do you want to wake?

Families with school and nursery runs to do often have to fit baby's naps around specific times and that may well involve waking baby up.

My 17 month old still likes her morning nap and her preference would be a long morning sleep - she would sleep 9.30am-1pm if I left her. But then she would struggle staying awake past 5pm ish (which would be too late for a nap)

So instead I wake her at 11am. That way she is ready to go back to sleep for another nap at 1pm. I usually have to wake her from that one too - because I have the school run at 3pm. She sleeps 9.30-11am and 1-3pm and I usually wake her from both these naps.

[waitingforsomething]

I agree that lots of people have to- I am one of them! But the op isn't suggesting that she has a reason such as going out so I was wondering why she felt she needed to wake her baby?

[comeagainforbigfudge]

Unless you are going somewhere, hells no!!

I say that as a ftm with a baby who is a rubbish napper. Shes recently started sleeping for two hours in the am. Its bliss. I just make plans for the afternoon now.

[waitingforsomething]

Ps fate I am very impressed that your 17 mo will go back for another nap after 2 hours awake! My 8 month old won't do this ...

[MyBreadIsEggy]

I'm debating waking my 10mo now!! We have hit a patch of her waking at 4/5am everyday. She had a nap from 9-10:30am, and then when back down after lunch at 1:40pm and is still asleep now. I'm worried that if I leave her to wake on her own, she will have had too much sleep today and will have a crappy sleep tonight and wake up early again!!

[whatsinanamereally]

I had to start waking my son in the afternoon. He was up every hour overnight because he wasn't tired enough. He is 8 months and now gets a 40 min nap and a 2 hour nap (or an hour then half an hour later on if he wakes), before this he was taking two hour long naps and one 2 hour nap. He now only wakes once a night, or twice on a bad night.

[CornishDoll82]

Because she doesn't usually sleep that long. She did 1hr 15 in the end. And then refused her third nap today so has now been up hours!!

[waitingforsomething]

Neither of mine have had a third nap past 6.5 months. Lots of babies don't need 3 at 8 months if the first two are of decent length. One hour 15 is not excessive for a baby that age

[waitingforsomething]

She might be transitioning to two naps if she's taking longer ones

[CornishDoll82]

She's all over the place. Did another 1hr 15 this AM then a disappointing 30 minute lunch nap then I had to wake her from her third nap at 5:45 as she was still going strong!

She sleeps so well at night but has no daytime rhythm to her naps at all

[NewLife4Me]

I thought you were going to say sleep walker

Oh yes, I'd wake a baby.
If they would be too long without a feed, I mean a lot over for a tiny.
If we had to go somewhere, would try not to wake, but most of the time did.
If they were sleeping and it would mean they wouldn't sleep at night.