how much does your 4 month old nap?

[scottygirl5]

DD2 hasn't been a good napper in a couple of months but right now she's terrible, fighting sleep whether in the cot, the car, the sling or on the boob. Just wondered how often/for how long other people's 4 month olds were sleeping? DD1 was a poor sleeper but did have 4-5 naps totalling 3-4 hours at this age iirc, DD2 only managing 3 totalling 1.5-2.5 hours which doesn't seem enough but I wonder if I'm just over-comparing?

My DS (19 weeks) gets ragey every two hours or so, so I try and nap him around every two hours, but it's usually for 45 mins at the moment as he will wake at the end of a sleep cycle. So I might get three 45 min naps in the day and then at one point he will (if I have him sleeping on my chest) have a long two hour nap. Night time is about 7-7 (sometimes later bed but still 7am wake up!) with a wake up around midnight and 4am for feeds. I think he's quite a sleepy boy though as I know some babies can go a lot longer than 2 hours awake at this age, but he gets so angry when overtired and rubs his eyes frantically so I have to try and make him sleep! He requires rocking and dummy though, he doesn't drift off gently :) unless in the carrier where he just falls asleep alone and quietly, it's lovely. I don't really think of the total he sleeps, as it varies and he has no set 'nap times'. He just obviously crosses a line of tiredness where he has to nap, it could be 30 mins or 2 hours. The more he stays awake after the eye rubbing and yawning begins the worse he is to get to sleep so I just go with it. It's hard though, he does fight it so much in the day, it's like a different world to night sleep.

My daughter is coming up to 5 months and we're lucky if she naps for more than an hour a day total over 3 naps. We're trying to follow the 2-3-4 routine but she sleeps for such a short time we'd be putting her down for the night before she woke up within a week.

Today I put her down at 9am, 2 hrs after she woke this morning. She slept for 5 mins and woke up giggling and silly. I would love some time to myself but at least she's adorable I suppose...