Anyone babies sleep longer when they don't nap?!

[mamajama2]

Hi all

My babe is 8 months and wakes anywhere between 3-10 times a night! I'm fine with it and know it's normal, but the past 3 days naps have been awful as we are moving house so I simply haven't had the time to help her go to sleep. She's been fine in herself but I'd say her naps have lowered massively and her awake time is much longer. I had assumed I'd be utterly in for it at nighttime and that she'd be overtired therefore wake more, but she has slept the best ever! Anyone else?! I'm absolutely not going to be keeping her awake all day form now on but I am curious to know how many people the 'sleep begets sleep' rule hasn't applied to?

Its a fine balance getting it right, because under-tiredness can cause difficult nights as can over-tiredness. There are loads of other things to factor in too, not only the total amount of daytime sleep.

There is also personal perception to consider, one person's good amount of sleep is another's nowhere near enough and another persons far too much. Also the fact that coping with short term changes are not the same as long term habit development. Like I said, many factors are involved and while "sleep begates sleep" is certainly better than "restrict your baby's sleep", it's not as simple as that.

8 months is a reasonably average time for daytime awake time to extend, so maybe you just got your timing right with the house moveamoveand baby was ready for it anyway.

If you're moving towards 2-nap days now (I assume?) It might be worth giving resettles a go to extend the length of the naps - this might be the change from short, frequent naos to longer, frequent naps.