What should a typical 4 - month - old baby's
nap schedule look like when nighttime sleep is going great?
Not exact matches
It
looks like she is doing well:) Once you move her to a 4 hour
schedule, she could take longer
naps for the first two, but a shorter third
nap.
He's on a 3 hr
schedule (
looks about like this altho
naps aren't consistently good and he has a difficult time settling after his bedtime feeding - 7, 10, 1, 4, 7, 10DF).
We will
look at nutrition,
nap schedule and every other detail for optimal sleep.
Our
schedule looks like this: 5:30 - 6:00 a.m. wake, bottle (4oz) 6:00 a.m. get dressed, play time in room 7:00 a.m. breakfast 8:00 a.m.
nap 9:00 a.m. wake, change diapers, play time in room 10:00 a.m. bottle (4oz) / lunch 10:30 a.m. independent play time / blanket time 11:00 a.m. jumpy seats, or walkers 11:30 a.m.
nap 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. wake 1:00 p.m. bottle (4 0z) 2:00 p.m. free time, mommy time, walk (we change it up all the time what we do.
Look at tweaking your daytime
schedule a bit: increase face to face playtimes with your baby, get outside a bit more, and perhaps cut out one of the
naps - especially if they're not yet mobile.
It's tough to sign up for another pregnancy when you
look ahead at going through sleep deprivation, being tied down for
nap schedules and managing babyhood, all while ALSO dealing with the needs of toddlers and school - aged kids.
Christine was the first person I
looked to and within two weeks she helped me get him on a regular
napping and overnight sleep
schedule!
Doing so may cause the
nap schedule to
look like this:
Do your best to gauge when they'll be
napping on the day of the evaluation and if it
looks like there may be a collision of
schedules, try to call the evaluator just to give them a heads up.
Let's
look at a sample kids»
nap schedule.
When she IS ready for a two -
nap schedule, it will ideally
look something like this:
The great thing about that book is that it talked about
nap schedules and how to
look for the signals in your children about when they're tired and how to work that into their days so that you can be flexible with what your child needs and that's really hard when you have three at the same time but it made us able to come up with a way to have a daily
schedule that allowed for having
naps and we were really strict about you know, we have to do
naps.
Remember that your child's
naps are changing in the next few months, so take a few minutes to
look at the appropriate
nap and wakeful window
schedule for your baby:
If you're reasonably sure that your baby's getting enough sleep overall, it's possible that you're just planning your outings too close to his naptime, so you may want to readjust your errand
schedule to accommodate his
naps — a 20 - minute catnap in the car can spoil the two - hour rest you
looked forward to all morning.
Especially if you have others coming in to help and they shoo you away to take a
nap or shower — they can
look at the journal and know exactly where you are in the
schedule without having to bother you.