sleep/awake times for 5months old
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Topic: sleep/awake times for 5months old
Posted By: rachelsea
Subject: sleep/awake times for 5months old
Date Posted: 08 October 2011 at 1:02pm
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How long does/did your 5month old baby sleep for at naptimes? And how long is he/she awake for in between naps? Oh and how many naps per day?
My boy is up for 2-2.5hrs between naps (when he starts rubbing his little eyes) and has 3x 30min naps! I have tried resettling him a few times, but nope he wants up after his 30min nap. He's happy when he's up and doesn't seem tired so I guess I'm just gonna have to get used to it lol. (He used to do 45min naps which I thought was short haha but the last couple of weeks it's only 30mins) He's in bed overnight for 11-12hrs, with about 3 feeds in that time (fully breastfed) so maybe gets most of his sleep at night? I'm not worried coz at least he's not grumpy when he's up, just wondering what others did around this age! ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 08 October 2011 at 1:18pm
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Yep, it seems to be a very normal thing for babies his age to decide that that's all they want. Jacob did. There are plenty of suggestions for stretching out their sleeps, and it would be well worth trying that (there have been heaps of threads started by parents in similar situations on OB, just have a search) but none of them worked reliably for us. I just resigned myself to the fact that that was what worked for him, and as he got older he stretched his sleeps out himself. -------------   
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 08 October 2011 at 3:04pm
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DS was a 30-45min sleeper for a long time, I just resigned myself to it and decided that was all he seemed to need. -------------  
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Posted By: kandk
Date Posted: 08 October 2011 at 9:32pm
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DD is 6 months old, and until this week she has been fairly reliably going back to bed two hours after getting up, with three naps a day. This has been the pattern for a couple of months, I suppose? Nap lengths are erratic though - anywhere from 30 mins to two hours. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MrsEmma
Date Posted: 08 October 2011 at 10:05pm
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DD is up for a max of 1.5 hours these days, she feeds 3 hourly so is usually up for 1.5 and down for 45mins - 1.5 hours - sometimes more. She is up at 7am, has three naps a day and then from her 4pm feed, I keep her up until her next feed at 7pm when she is down for the night.
DS was a 45min sleeper for a long time. I tried the 'stirring him awake right before 45mins so he would re-settle' method but it never worked and I just went with it. I think it's more to do with personality than with age, some just like their sleep more than others. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Keolyn
Date Posted: 08 October 2011 at 11:33pm
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DD seems to break the mold on this one lol.. she's up at 7:30ish and doesnt have a nap until around 11, so she has 2 feeds and a top up in that time.. but lately shes been sleeping 1.5-2 hours at that nap... (so up around 1:30) then has another long nap around 4 and bed at 9ish. But she won't go to sleep without a bath and if I try and put her to bed earlier she just wakes earlier so I just put her to bed so she wakes up when DH and I normally get up :)
She does 'snack' a bit during the day though.. eats a bit but then gets too nosey before she's full I think! Sometimes she does have cat naps if I take her out in the pram though and if she's tired I'll put her to bed but if I try and put her down when she's not tired (shes a box of birds normally lol) the crying and kicking is worse than tired baby :( It could take up to 1 hour to get her to sleep and by then she's hungry again. |
Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 09 October 2011 at 9:24am
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Haha of course right after I posted this he went and did a 1.5hr nap (well he started crying after 30mins so went in and his eyes were still closed, so popped the dummy in expecting him to spit it out like he usually does but he didn't and slept for another hour). Not expecting that to happen every time though hehe.
Good to hear some other babies do this too. I do just go with it as it's much less stressful. He's a bit of a snacker during the day too, he just feeds whenever he wants too which I'm happy with too  ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: heaf3
Date Posted: 14 October 2011 at 5:56pm
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keolyn Holly sounds a bit similar to A...except at the moment she will only sleep on me in the daytime, as soon as shes in her bed she cries and no matter how much i try and resettle her she just won't sleep. so i figure just go with it for now because at least she's sleeping! at night she's doing about 11-8.and no feeds overnight. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: MrsMc
Date Posted: 14 October 2011 at 6:14pm
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5 months I'd say an 1hr 15min- 1hr 30min. Sometimes ive noticed that babies can have those 30min catnaps if they've been left up too long and are over tired.
Have you tried putting him down earlier? before he starts rubbing his eyes? |
Posted By: Stephi
Date Posted: 26 October 2011 at 8:47pm
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My son is almost 5 months old and he goes to bed at 6.30pm and is up at 7am. He then goes back to bed straight after his 7am bottle until about 9.30-10am, goes back to sleep for about half an hour around 1 and has another half hour nap around 3, but this all depends on his day. Today he slept from 3-6.30 then got him up, fed him and put him back down for the night at 7.
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Posted By: Tan1
Date Posted: 27 October 2011 at 2:47pm
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My son did exactly the same when he was 5 months. 3 lots of 45 mins in the day and then down at 7pm and up at 7am with 2 or 3 feeds during the night.
If he misses a sleep in the day because we are out then he usually has a slightly longer afternoon nap when we get home. He is now 6 months old and still does the same 3 naps during the day. Most nights now he wakes for 1 feed however I was amazed when he slept through for the first time last night! The funny thing was though that I still woke up automatically at 3am
A friend of mine told me that her children used to do the 3 lots of 45 min naps however she used a controlled crying technique and they eventually stretched their naps out to 2 hours. This technique isn't for me though! If my little man is happy and rested with the short naps then I will just continue to go with it. |