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Should I let my 9mo nap as long as she wants

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8008S · 25/06/2024 08:45

recently night time sleep has become painful and hard to achieve. I’m putting it down to her mastering clapping, crawling and standing up in a very short space of time along with separation anxiety.

Im wondering if its best to let her sleep as long as she wants during naps, which is usually 1:30-2 hours or wake her after an hour to help with night time sleep?

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Didimum · 25/06/2024 11:07

I'd absolutely let her sleep the 2hrs.

StrangeWeirdoEvensitselfOut · 25/06/2024 11:09

What time is her nap?

Knittedfairies2 · 25/06/2024 11:11

It depends what time she's ready for a nap, but 2hrs seems fine to me otherwise.

eliayd · 25/06/2024 13:21

Definitely let your LO sleep x

eliayd · 25/06/2024 13:22

My 9month old is also going through separation anxiety. One day he didn’t nap as long as we were out. And it made him worse. They need their sleep. Over tired babies are even harder to settle x

coloursquare · 25/06/2024 13:23

All of mine napped 1pm-3pm until they were about 3!

geheb · 26/06/2024 05:57

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8008S · 26/06/2024 10:14

She’s currently waking around 7-8am up for 2.5 hours (I’ve tried stretching it out but she just becomes aggy and fights her nap then). She usually wakes from her first nap between 11-12 and has her second nap of the day around 3pm for 30 mins for bed at 7, but usually doesn’t fall asleep until 8ish then is up every few hours through the night and usually ends up in our bed 🫠

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eliayd · 26/06/2024 16:02

@8008S
The morning wake window should be the shortest
My 9 month old sleeps 1.5 hours after waking up. With a feed

So 8am wake and then back down at 930am - 10am
He's sleeps maybe a hour then

Then nap around 2pm
He wakes around 4pm

Then bed at 8pm

Maybe make morning and afternoon naps sooner for bed time in evening to be easier?
And evening wake window the longest.

When my baby wakes up too early e.g 30mins in I rock him back to sleep and he sleeps longer.

But every baby is different and it's perfectly normal for baby to sleep and wake often still at this age x

InTheRainOnATrain · 26/06/2024 16:18

The 234 schedule would probably help. So if wake up is at 7am she goes down for her nap at 9am, a wake window of 2 hours and I would wake her from this after an hour so 10am if she doesn’t wake up naturally. Next wake window is 3 hours so nap 2 is at 1pm and you’d hope for 2 hours. Then finally the last wake window is 4 hours which should mean bed at 7pm. Hence 234.

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