Napping and sleeping?

[Dryshampooagaintoday]

Is anyone able to help me tell the difference in a nap and bedtime sleeping? My LO always sleeps for around 2-3hrs both in the day and ihroughout the night. So I can’t really tell when he’s “getting up and waking up” or when his “natural bed time” is!

How old is your LO? When they are super young I don't really think there is such a thing as a nap, all their sleep just blends into one! As they get a little older their sleep starts shifting so they have more at night and less during the day.

@hodgepodge21 my LO is 12 weeks, we definitely don’t sleep well, as in he sleeps only on top of someone and won’t sleep in his snuzpod or be put down AT ALL- not sure if it makes a difference

Ok I would have thought by 12 weeks your baby should have an idea of day/night... you say they sleep 2-3 hours day and night - what about awake time? What's the rough pattern throughout a 24 hour period?

@hodgepodge21
usually wakes at 4.30am- feeds and awake and laughing
6.30am feeds again sleeps
8.45ish Feeds and sleeps again for 2.5 hrs. 1.19pm Wakes again feeds and plays
3.15 sleeps for 45minutes
4.45pm feeds sleeps straight after
5.30 sleeps for 39 minutes or so
6pm -7pm awake
7pm-7.30 begin bedtime
8.30 in bed, bathed, book read, fed and sleep with me in bed (he sleeps on me) .
10ish wakes up to feed and sleep
more or less every 2-3 hours he’ll wake to breastfeed until 4.30ish

So when she feeds and sleeps at 6:30, does she sleep for around 2 hours, then another 2.5 hours at the next nap? Then a sort of interrupted nap of 1.5hours (the one with the feed in the middle) around 3pm? So around 6 hours "day time sleep"? Maybe like she thinks the day starts at 4:30am and is then having to replace this lost sleep during the day. Is the atmosphere different during the day and night sleep? Eg is night time dark, quiet, calm etc, and daytime light, noisy and busy? That usually helps teach babies the difference between day and night. Also some babies do "split nights", mine did (and still does now and again at nearly 5 months). So will go to bed at 7pm, then wake at 3am-ish and want to party. Then go back to sleep for the remainder of the night around 4:30. I have found shifting bed times around a little helps with this, in particular pushing it back a little. I know it's probably not useful to hear but these weird sleep things are usually phases! You will find she suddenly stops doing it (but starts doing something else!)