Awake time before first nap

[Tatasmum]

Good morning!

So we have just woken up from night sleep and playing peacefully in in our bedroom. But quite soon our first nap battle is going to start.

I don't know what happened but my almost 6 mo dd started having troubles with her morning nap. Her first awake time has always been pretty short ~ 1 h. Then she began to protest it and we lengthened it to 1 h 15 min. Everything was perfect until recently. Now she protests every time and would not go down any sooner than 2 h after waking up. But after 2 h she is too tired and is only capable of catnapping. So the whole day schedule is screwed.

How long do your babies of similar age stay awake in the morning?

I always do first nap after 2hrs (baby is now 8 months). It's a fine balance between not tired enough and overtired!

I'm following little ones and it says 2 1/4-2 1/2 hrs for 4-6m old awake times - it also says that there might be a bit of catnapping/disruption for a couple of days while the awake time changes until it resettles! And to only move them 5-10mins at a time per day so it's a gentle change and less likely to disrupt

It's so hard isn't it, it's a constant change with mine.. I think just going with your gut will help!

HTH

All my boy did until he was 7 months old was cat nap. He’s 9 months now and generally has 2 one hour naps if we are in the house. Shorter if we’re out and about. And then he’ll probably need a third nap. At 6 months he was having 4 30-minute naps every 2 hours.
Now First awake time is between 2 and 2.5 hours and after that it’s about 2.5 to 3 hours.
At 6/7/8 months the daytime routine changed all the time so we just had to be more flexible.