Napping Question

[Anonymous]

After months of no naps, I really should NOT complain, but I am a little bit concerned that Jackson’s naps are so random. We have days when I struggle to get him to sleep more than 45 minutes at a time. Then, a few times a week he will take the LONGEST naps. One day, he slept for 5 hours in the morning. He slept 4 hours in the morning this past weekend and he is currently working on 3 hours as we speak. All of these strangely long naps occur during the morning hours. He always struggles with afternoon naps. He is sleeping very well at night. He is well medicated (30 mg of prevacid a day) and he is 3.5 months old.

Should I be waking him after a couple of hours of napping in the morning or should I just let him sleep? I just figure he needs the sleep and maybe he is growing. But, every week? Will he ever have a more predictable schedule? Do you think that this random sleep schedule is the result of countless days of ZERO naps when he was younger due to reflux?

Any advice would be great!

[Anonymous]

You say he is sleeping good at night, but how many hours? At 3.5 mos., I think you probably just need to worry about how many hours in one day rather than how long in one period of time. I think napping patterns don’t become regular until between 4-5 mos. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that was the advice that I got when I was worried about the same issue. Evie’s were not regular until 5 mos., but now they are pretty consistent. (but…not always) With Evie, there was no rhyme or reason to her sporadic naps so I just went with it. I would, however wake her up if I was pushing over 16+ for the day b/c it was most important to me that she would sleep through the night and I didn’t want her wide awake late at night. Try to go with the flow, even if it’s hard and have a nap yourself during one of those 5 hour naps!!! Good luck!!!

[Anonymous]

Yes, he is sleeping between 10 to 12 hours a night. We put him to bed around 6 or 6:30 pm, he sleeps until around 9:30 p.m. and then eats. Then, he goes back down until around 6:30 am or 7:00 a.m. Once he wakes up, he gets tired again after about only one hour of awake time. I put him down for a nap and it can last anywhere from 45 minutes to 5 hours! It is crazy. Then, most of the other naps throughout the day are pretty short (45 minutes to an hour). He usually has 3 to 4 naps a day. I was not sure if I woke him up in the morning if his afternoon naps would improve. A month ago, before Jackson was properly medicated, I would NOT have believed that my concern would be LONG naps!

[hellbennt]

my philosopy is to just follow their lead- you’ll eventually find a pattern-as for the napping an hour after being awake in the am it’s been explained that it’s a continuation of their night-time sleep…

I’m w/ everyone else- go with it & try to rest when he’s asleep (or, hop on the computer)

[Anonymous]

Back to 45 minute naps! I should have just enjoyed those long nap days!

[Anonymous]

So, off subjet, well sort of. Neither of my son slept well at all and my theory on that is that it took too long to get them properlay medicated and by time I did they associated sleep with pain. So, my question is what meds are they are on and what age was the correct dose given?

[Anonymous]

He is 4 months, 14 pounds and on 30 mg prevacid/ day. He takes 15 mg am and 15 mg pm. I am not sure if it is working sufficiently right now. He smells very acidic and acts kind of fussy. But, I started him on rice cereal today and that seems to have made a difference. He slept better today than he has in weeks and seemed satisfied after feedings. He still spit up quite a bit. I am wondering if his naps have been short because he has been hungry. The Specialist recommended the rice cereal and I was reluctant to try it, but it is worth a shot! So far so good. Just hope he does not get constipated.

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