when does your 4 month old nap?

[verds]

Morning!

Baby Verds is coming up to 4 months, and I'm slowly realising that letting her sleep fours in the morning might be kwhat's keeping me up all night. Who knew, eh?

I'm trying to go for the old 45 mins at 9, 2 hrs at 12 and a cheeky livener at 4.

It's been a week since I stopped letting her have the morning mega nap, but she'd still rather be asleep at this time.

Anyone up for sharing their nap times for this age?

[Pickle]

Baby Pickle is 15 weeks (I think, 3rd baby syndrome means I'm not so good at keeping track!)

She gets up around 7 -7:30ish and falls asleep in the buggy when I do the school run around 9am. She sleeps for around 45 mins to an hour at that time depending on what we do.

I pick my middle daughter up from school just before 12 and once again she falls asleep in the buggy. I transfer her to her bedroom and she will sleep for anywhere from 1 to 2 hours... ideally 2!

Then generally sometime between 4 and 5pm she will have a nap, but never later than 5pm as I put her to bed for 7pm so that I can go out to my rehearsals in the evening.

[verds]

Ooh, that's exactly what I'd like mine to do! She's the same age.

Dare I ask if she sleeps well at night? Mine's a fan of waking up loads. Her sister wasn't, so it's come as a bit of a shock!

[Pickle]

Yes, really well. I followed a routine with my first 2, with #3 it's very much a case of her having to fit into our day, but I approach night with my routine head on :)

In bed for 7pm, we get her up for a feed around our bedtime (anywhere from 10pm to 11pm). I breastfeed her, so bring her downstairs and do half a feed, then hubby changes her nappy while I get ready for bed and I finish her feed in bed then pop her in her Moses basket. Most nights she then goes through till around 5 - 5:30am, has a quick 5 or 10 min feed, then straight back to sleep until usually after the big kids are up.

A couple of times a week she goes right through till morning without a feed.

Good luck x

[Pickle]

Just wanted to add, there is a large element of her simply being a "sleeper" when it comes to nights. Since she was born she has never woken more than twice between 10pm and 7am, so we had a good starting point!

She is a good advertisement for 3rd babies :)

[verds]

I thought it was second babies that were easy! ;)

[verds]

Pickle, do you wake her to feed at 10pm? I've been doing a dreamfeed but she rarely wakes up, so not sure she's getting enough as she wakes again at 2ish

[Pickle]

Sort of - by bringing her downstairs into the light she wakes enough to take a good feed, then by changing her nappy half way through she then takes another reasonable amount before drifting back to sleep.

Eventually I'll start doing it as a proper dream feed where I just lift her and do it in her room, but as we start the evening with her in her cot then move her to our room for the rest of the night it's easier to do it as we are for now.

[nabz]

my babys 3 months and has several naps during the day lol! shes down by 9:30 then wakes up between 5:30-8am for a feed then back to sleep (so i can get a little more sleep too!) then shes up again by 10:30 has a feed then back asleep around 1:30 for around 45mins then feed then her next feed is around 3/4 then quite a long nap and her feed is then around 7/8 then one bottle of formula at 9 (so i can get some rest and gather milk for the next morning!). i found using a strict routine really does the trick with her at bedtime which funnily i learnt from edf mummys who inspired me to be able to put my daughter down at 9 instead of 11 or even midnight for then her to wake up at 2am!! so thank you everyone!