6 month old asleep since 5pm?

[GodisaDj]

DD is just over 6 months old and went down for a 'nap' at 5pm. She's still asleep nearly 2 hours later.

She isn't one for napping for long (always tends to be 30-40 min, sometimes an hour) and has 4 naps a day normally, one being around 4.30pm / 5pm. But then she always is in bed by 7.30pm as is always tired by this point

So thought she'd wake up around 6ish but she hasn't. Have just gone up and put lights on and not waking up! She has been teething last night/today and this week has learnt to sit up unaided.

Could this have tired her out?
What do I do? Leave her to sleep or wake her?
Anyone else have a baby similar who has shorter naps and loves going to bed?!

Its a tricky one..my friends kids often used to do this - fall asleep in the car on the way home from somewhere. They would put them to bed (no dinner) and 9times/10 they would sleep as normal.

Mine always had a nap at 4/4.30pm at this age and would prob go to sleep a bit later at say 8pm. I'm pretty sure I used to wake them.

Is she still waking in the night for milk anyway. If so I would prob leave her as she will wake if hungry.

Fingers crossed you don't have a 5am start tomorrow though!

I'd leave her be.

Leave her and have a lovely grown up evening . At roughly this age, DS1 once slept from 4.30pm -morning the next day (with a couple of wake ups for milk, but no more than usual). Oh how I wish that things like this still happened here....

Thanks all. She woke just after I post but was not a happy bunny with the lights I'd left on before I post

She had a good feed and was a bit groggy but soon perked up when playing with toys and then for dinner.

I started BLW about 3 weeks ago and this week she's really taken to it (coordination, actually swallowing some etc) so as soon as I put her in high chair she was wide awake munching on cherry tomatoes!

So, just went to bed an hour later than "normal" at 8ish and went straight off.

I'm not one for a set bed "time" as such, just a bed time routine (bath, massage, story etc) when she begins to get tired but if she doesn't have a late nap (around 4.30 ish) she's ready for bed at 6pm! I'm breastfeeding and she wakes for nighttime feeds every 2-4 hours but literally feeds and goes straight back to sleep. DP keeps hoping that one day she'll sleep through but I'm more realistic and know she won't !

Will see how tonight goes!

Thanks again

flisspaps your name just had me snort tea out of my nose! Love it

Oh dear sweet mother of Jesus thank your lucky lucky stars for the extra free time, grab a cuppa or something stronger and don`t wake her up!

I have never found curtailing naps helps with night time sleeping and sometimes makes it worse. I would guess the exercise, the teething, quite honestly anything could be extending her nap but if she is happy in slumberland then give yourself some happy-time too!

Kettle on. Feet up. Trashy magazine. Bairn to bed slightly later than normal. Don't worry about it! When I saw the title thread I assumed you meant she had slept from 5pm yesterday through the night and was still asleep now, which would be slightly more unusual!!

Kira and bird - she likes her pit bless her! And she slept well last night with just 2 feeds (normally 3 or sometimes 4) so maybe she's tiring herself out more with exercise, weaning etc.

Don`t we all! There will be times in the not so distant future from now when you would kill for just 5 minutes of peace so I say take every opportunity when you can! Enjoy the trashy mag x

Update whilst drinking coffee and catching up on MN

Dd had an early night tonight again, as we sat down for dinner at 5.20 (previous nap was for 2 hours at 1pm) and she wasn't interested in food (BLW) so was bathed, ready for bed, breast fed and asleep by 6.10pm. She woke for another feed at 7.15pm and gone straight back down. Leaving her to it and having a grown up night! thanks ladies

Ha, well done to OP and your DD! Relish the peace. And the trash