When do babies get into two naps a day pattern?

[philbee]

DD2 is 8 wks and still in a kind of newborn 'feed, look around, get furious, sleep' pattern every two to three hours in the day. When do babies tend to start having a morning and afternoon nap, if they do? I can't remember when DD1 started to do that or if it's something I encouraged somehow (can't imagine how though!).

Dd was about 9 months. She'd been a horrible napper til then and we went on holiday and we fell into a wonderful routine of nap after breakfast and nap after lunch and both were 1.5-2hrs with overnight sleep 7-7. This also coincided with her starting to crawl.

Thanks. I suppose I just mean regular naps as at the moment she just naps whenever the two/three hours is up, so there's no reliable time for anything.

2 or 3 hours? Mine could only last 90 minutes until about 4 months. Anyway, DD is 7 months and now does 2 naps. They are at different times every day, after about 2/2.5 hours awake. But that suits me so I don't wake her at particular times. If you wanted the naps to be at certain times in a routine, I guess you could wake her in the morning at a particular time and then there would be a chance that she would need her naps at similar times.

DD1 only ever slept for 45 mins at a time, once in the morning, once in the afternoon. DD2 mostly does have to wake at the same time as we do the school run, so she's up between 7 and 8 during term time.