Would u give ur 6m old nap at 5pm?

[Lubilu28]

Just want to know what people would do in my situation?

My 6 month old naps at different times of the day and it’s getting a little frustrating lol he’s up for the day at around 5.30 (if anyone knows how to get him to sleep later then please comment) and he has his first nap at 8. Some days he will sleep for 2 hours and wake at 10 which would be perfect but for the past few days it’s only been 40mins!! I think the cold and teething is having something to do with it. But because of this short early nap it’s means all his daytime naps are out of sync. I put him down at 2.50 as he was shattered and again only had 40 mins. So now I’m stuck as I don’t think he will last until 7 and I don’t want to put him to bed earlier. I was gonna put him down at 5.15 and just give him half an hour and then put him to bed at 7.30? What does everyone think?

I'm interested in people's reply's as my 5 month old does exactly the same thing and it drives me mad. I sometimes put him down at 5pm and wake him at 5.30 then make his last feed 7pm asleep but 7.30. This works fine. If I can't get him to have a catnap he ends up going to bed at 6.30 which perpetuates the early waking if that makes sense. I can't get him into any kind of decent nap routine wish I could.

I’d let them have a sleep, say 45 mins so one sleep cycle, then get them up gently and just make bedtime a bit later to compensate. You’ll probably tell on them when they’re needing it ☺️ My 3rd dc is 6mo and that’s what we do. If we try and keep him up he doesn’t feed well or sleep well so it’s a clear cut one here!

Sometimes my little one (6m) has a late afternoon nap if she needs it.

She is usually on a solid 3 nap schedule:
Wake up 7am/7.30
Nap 1: 1.5 hours later (45 minutes long) around 8.30/9am
Nap 2: around 11.30/12 (1.5 - 2 hours)
Nap 3: around 3.30/4pm (45 mins - 1 hour)
Bedtime: asleep by 8pm

Some days the lunchtime nap is shorter and she does a longer nap 3. Some days she naps only 45 minutes for each which ruins all my timings and means she needs an extra nap around 6pm to make it to bedtime. I tend to let her sleep for about 30/40 minutes then gently wake her (turning off white noise usually does it) and then push her bedtime back to 8.30pm so she has been awake around 2 hours before bed.

I remember going for the third nap at that time (16 years ago mind with DS 1) It really did help, and meant the last few hours 6-7,30 ish were less fractious. Can’t remember how long it lasted (month?) but don’t stress too much, all a phase and now he’d sleep all day and night!

At that age my boy was on 4x 30 minute cat naps a day and I focused more on awake times than nap times. I’d need 2.5 hours between last nap and bedtime for him to go to bed well. He goes to bed at 6.30 so I’d wake him at 4. If he had napped until say 3 then I’d put him to bed at 6. The later he goes to bed the earlier he wakes (sleep promotes sleep they say) but all babies are different! Sadly lol.
I also tried to put off the first nap of the day until 8.30am /9am.

All babies are different but I found at that age if mine had had decent naps in the day but needed that last catnap whether at 5 or even 6pm due to timings, they’d have no issue still going to bed at 7-7.30. If they’ve had too few naps and got all wired and overtired then it’s worse for me than letting them have a late nap!

My 6 month old falls asleep around 5:30pm, his bed time is 8pm and the late nap doesn’t interfere. If we try to put him to bed before 8 he treats it like another nap and then is wide eyed and ready to rumble at 9:30 😭

Whatever works for both you and baby.