Can I ask about your 4 month old's naps?

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DS has gone from being the incredible non-napping 2 month old, to taking 3 fairly regular naps of 45 mins - 2 hours. In the last week, he's been fighting his late afternoon nap - he still seems tired but he just will not sleep! So, I just wondered, is this normal? What are other babies doing at this age?

My DS is turning into the incredible non-napping 4 month old. He usually manages 3 x 30-45min naps and you can almost set a watch by him. We're pretty much doing the EASY routine with BF so no times set in stone but he has definitely found his own niche in regard to number of feeds and preferred bedtime. Now that he's 16 weeks old I'm trying to get a little more structure while still staying very flexible with whatever he wants so I am actually being more strict with myself by staying up from 7am onwards (we used to doze back off after morning feed and wake whenever DS decided - usually 2-3 hours later). So I guess he's just got to find his pattern in the new 7am consistent rising regime.

Do you find yourself questioning everything now that LO has gone past the magical "you can't possibly spoil them yet so do whatever you like" 3 month mark? I do!

I'm still letting him do what he likes in terms of feeding/sleeping! His naps were always about 45 minutes, but about 2 weeks ago they started getting longer (he's 19 weeks tomorrow) so maybe that's why he's dropping the 3rd nap? Today he had 2 hours in the morning and 1.5 hours after lunch. We're roughly following EASY but have no rigid times a d he naps for as short or long as he wants.

We also seem to have hit the dreaded 4 month sleep regression at night, and he's back to waking every 3-4 hours .

PS thanks for the reply its really useful to hear what other babies are up to, as none of them seem to have read the books!

Can I just ask I as I'm having the sane sort of issues what time you put your DC to bed please

He goes to bed around 7.30 because he's seriously tired by then, any later & he has a major meltdown. He then usually wakes for a feed at 11ish, and then was going through until 4-5 without a feed, until this week when he's been waking every 3 hours - 4 month sleep regression, maybe?

My (just) 5 month old still generally has 3 naps a day. When they are depends on whether it's a school day, if so then I wake her at 7 (which I hate doing but we have to leave the house at 8:20 if we're walking), and she'll fall asleep at 9ish in the pram for about an hour. Then another nap after lunch for an hour to an hour and a half, then sometimes another half an hour in the late afternoon - she dropped it a few weeks ago but now she wants it again! Then she goes to bed at around 7:30 and sleeps through

Routines change all the time at this age, Christmas really knocked everything out of sync too - with dd1 I used to stress about it but I'm just going with the flow this time and letting her do what she wants. Dd1 had longer naps through the day but didn't sleep as well at night - I definitely prefer it this way around

Thanks

I find the afternoon nap is the most difficult one. He just obstinately resists and resists and just when you thought he couldn't resist anymore he finds a 3rd wind. As a result he doesn't start his evening wind down until 8:30-9:00. I know this is quite late in the world of 7pm-put-em-to-bed but it actually works quite nicely for us as DP gets to spend time with him. I'm sure it will need to come earlier (and possibly the 7am rising will do this) as he ages but we're just cruising at the moment.