8 week old daytime sleeps

Hmm it is a toughie. Babies are so unpredictable! :-) When my bubs was young (under three months) plunket advised the "one hour up, two hours asleep" idea. However my wee boy never did that! He was and is a pretty shocking sleeper during the day.

Is your wee one happy when he wakes? And can he last until the next feed/sleep time? If so, I would just get him up.

If he is grumpy (like mine!) you could try putting him in a rocker or bouncer and let him have a further nap. Or for a walk in the pram. I often did this cause I couldn't stand hearing him cry :-) For a friend in my coffee group getting her son up for 20 minutes or so, then putting him back down for a further sleep worked. He was tricked into thinking it was just another sleep :-)

Hope you can figure something out either way :-)

My son did exactly the same thing when he hit the 8 week mark. Before that he had been up for an hour and sleeping for 2 hours, and I was wondering what I had done differently/wrong.

I read somewhere that babies' daytime sleep cycles (which are around 45 minutes long) become more established at 8 weeks, so they wake up a bit more fully between sleep cycles, and may need help resettling.

It's really hard to know when to get him up and when to try and resettle. I would get him up if he had slept for more than one sleep cycle, but if he had only been down for one sleep cycle (so if he woke around the 45 min - 1 hour mark) I would try and resettle. If I couldn't resettle him in his cot, then I would pop him in his pram and take him for a walk like 1st Time Preggies did. He would usually sleep.

Also, it was around this point that he became a lot more alert and wanted to stay awake for more than an hour - more like 1 hour 15 or 1 hour 30 before he began to show his tired signs.

Good luck!

I firmly believe (after 2 children) that most babies go through a period of lesser naps in the day anywhere is age from 8 weeks to about 5-6 months old.

Both by children became cat nappers during the day for this period of time and I have heard of so many other babies that do this. IT TOTALLY STRESSED ME OUT. Finally I just went with it (albeit with #2) and scheduled my day around lesser - but more - sleeps per day. They both evenutally settled down.

Check things like if he could be hungry, hot, cold or dirty nappy. If all is okay then please just go with the flow for a short period of time. He won't always be doing this.