I just want to know if anyone else's baby has done this, and if so, did it end?!
After two months of four naps a day that were almost never longer than 30 mins each, my DD suddenly started doing longer naps a few days after she turned six months. I was absolutely delighted. She was down to three naps a day, one of which would always be over an hour (ranging from just over an hour to just over an hour and a half, although we had one memorable two hour nap!). This lasted two weeks, then we had a few days with no long naps, followed by another week of one long nap and two short naps every day, then another couple of days with no long nap. Then a week where she had one long nap every other day- the next day would only be three short naps (usually between 30 and 40 minutes).
This brings us to the last couple of days: Saturday naps were 34, 28, 27 mins; Sunday was 30, 8(!) then spent half an hour getting her back to sleep only for her to only sleep another 14 mins, 32 (that one was in the car); today has been 29, 15- she wouldn't go back to sleep after that.
I feel pretty defeated tbh- once she started sleeping for longer stretches, I thought that was it- I didn't imagine she'd have quite such a dramatic regression! The only thing I can think of which may be affecting her is that I think she's a bit ill- she's coughed and sneezed more than usual over the last few days, but she's not snotty and she's coping very well with it if she is ill. (Wife is ill and not coping well at all, so baby is clearly very tough if it's the same thing!)
Thank you if you managed to get through all of that! I'd love to hear from anyone who has experienced similar.