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How much does your baby sleep during the day?

My daughter is now 5 months old and she generally takes about 2-3 naps during the day, totalling 3-4 hours in all. I've noticed that sometimes at night she won't want to go to bed if she has slept more than usual during the day. I realize that all babies differ as far as how much sleep they need and whether that interferes with their nighttime sleep but I am just curious how many naps your baby takes and for how long. My 15 month old takes one 2-3 hour nap per day and has no problem sleeping at night. Thanks in advance.

Public Response to How much does your baby sleep during the day?

  1. your baby is health and natural. enjoy it
  2. All babies are different. Mine just started to sleep through the night because we "ferberized" her. Just a nice way of saying I stopped getting her in the middle of the night. She was waking up twice once at 12am then again at 3:30am then up at 7am, this went on for 7 months until just last week. It took three nights of her crying for about 10-15 minutes and she went back to sleep. She naps at 10 am and again around 2 or 3pm both times for an hour. I will wake her up if she sleeps longer than that on her last nap because she won't want to go to bed at 8pm if she sleeps longer than that.
  3. one nap a day for about 2-3 hours is great. mine is just over 7 months old and she wakes up around 6 or 7 and takes her nap around 11:00. that way when she wakes up at about 1:00-1:30 she has time to get worn out by the time she has to go to sleep... which is around 7:00. i have followed that schedule every day now. it seems to work out great!
  4. I have a 5 month old son and he take 2 to 3 naps a day about an hour to 2 or 3 hours each.He will usually go to bed around 730 at night,waking 2 or 3 times to feed and will be up at about 7 or 8 in the morning.His afternoon nap a few days ago he slept for 4 hours!! He got up at 6 and i was worried he would not go back down but he did and slept a normal night.It has only been the last couple of weeks i have been able to get him on this schedule,before if he napped lots through the day he wouldn't go to sleep till 9 or 10 and even then he didnt want to go to bed!lol!!She should figure it out,good luck.