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Sarah
I've been hanging on to my
4/17/2008 at 1:10 pm
I've been hanging on to my daughter's two-nap schedule with both hands. I love her taking two naps! She's a few months older than Jack, I believe. She's starting to get up a little earlier in the morning, though, and I'm not sure if that's caused by the fact that it's getting lighter earlier or because she's working her way to the two-to-one nap switch. I'm hoping she'll keep two naps until around 18 months, which I've heard is the ideal time if you can manage it. How long is Jack awake in the morning before his nap? Elisabeth seems to want just about 2.5 hours, but a lot of my friends with babies her age go a lot longer, even 4 hours. So you might experiment there. Then she wants about 3 hours before her afternoon nap. Again, I'd play with the times a bit, see what works. If you do find that extending awake time before his first nap helps, it might fix itself in a week, not months, although I'm sure it depends! But all babies seem to need slightly different amounts of sleep, so I wouldn't presume to say that what works for mine will work for yours.


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