If you have a 2 month old, what is their nap routine?

[SundayTwizzle]

DD tends to sleep 10 - 8 at night (with 1 or 2 wakeup to feed but generally short) but during the day her naps are quite random no matter how much we try to regulate them.

Today for instance, she had a nap 9-9:30 then wouldnt nap again until 12-12:45 and nothing since! It doesn't seem enough but I cant seem to get her to day sleep unless we are on a walk. She used to fall asleep on me after feeds but that seems to have stopped too.

Please could I ask what your 2 months old day sleep looks like?

When mine were that age they didn't really have any sort of routine during the day. They change so quickly that whatever suited them at 2 months would no longer suit them a few weeks later, so with number 2 we didn't try - just followed their lead and they had naps when they seemed sleepy and ate when they seemed hungry. It was actually much less stressful

Same as above. My baby is 3 months now and we still have no set routine and it works just fine and less stressful for us. In the early days I got a bit hung up on thinking we needed a routine but I let that go quite quickly and just follow baby and have been reassured that in the coming months she will naturally develop a bit of a routine as naps consolidate more. I keep a bit of an eye on awake time and encourage her to nap (we do a lot of contact naps when at home and she has to have her dummy and be rocked for a few minutes normally, if we're out she usually sleeps in her pushchair or car seat). Sometimes it's a 30min power nap, other times it can be 2hrs but it varies each day. I just go with it and don't stress and baby generally seems happy and content. We had good stretches like yours at night too at 2months and we're just starting to move mostly towards one short wake up at night now - nighttime sleep has always felt a bigger priority to me. Mine also stopped feeding to sleep at a few weeks old as she found her own rhythm of sleep, feed when she woke, play and repeat. Not sure if that helps but I think having no consistent routine at 2months is totally normal and it's more just watching for babies ques and keeping a bit of an eye on awake times (if you find it helpful as a rough guide)

DD2 currently 11 weeks. Sleeps 6pm-6am with a couple of brief wakes for very small feeds. Often ends up in bed with me after second wake. Has an early bedtime due to the fact that she is seriously overtired and grumpy by the evening, and can’t sleep in late as her dad gets up at 6am for a shower, which wakes her 2.11yo sister who basically wakes the entire street with the noise she makes 🤦🏻‍♀️

During the day she will only nap in a moving buggy with loud white noise (I rock with my foot while playing with her sister, but sometimes she will accept the Rockit as a substitute). I use Huckleberry to remind me of when she should be going down for a nap - too easy to lose track with a toddler around.

Usually has around five naps a day. Will only do a maximum of 30 minutes even if in a car. Categorically will not contact nap, even on quiet days when her sister is at nursery.

I’d love to say that this will all get easier soon and naps will consolidate, but sadly DD1 did 28 minute naps until 18 months when she started refusing them! Luckily by about 7 months she was down to 2 x naps a day so our lives weren’t consumed by constantly be trying to get her to sleep.

Sleep about 8.30pm until 8.30am with two feeds at about 3 and 6.

Nap at 10 ish for about 45 mins. In and out of sleep/looking at things in pram 12-2. Long nap of at least an hour if not 2 at about 3pm and another short nap at about 6pm.

Seems to work for now!