Your 9 month old - how many naps?

[Shanti]

DD was having 2 naps a day at that age.....around 9:30am and then around 2:30pm....(from memory!) BUT I remember having to ensure her 2nd day sleep wasn't too late in the arvo otherwise yeah it was hard to get her to bed....that rule still applies today even with just 1 day nap now.

DD transitioned around 12mths/13mths to 1 day nap.....

I remember 9mths of age was a very difficult age with sleep!! and she was waking ALOT at night time too! Particularly because of her teething!!!!!

Good luck hun it's exhausting.

[HotI]

Today my LO was up at 8.30am. looked tired at 12 but wouldn't go to sleep (despite trying 4 times) until 4pm. slept until almost 5. she has just had dinner bath and now feeding (hopefully) to sleep. wish us luck

[teresa]

DS was a shocker of a day sleeper up until the last couple of weeks. from around 3 months until 11 months old he would have 2-3 half hour naps per day. he didnt sleep thru the night until he was 4 months old and that is on and off still. most nights he will sleep thru others he might wake up have a bottle then settle again. at the moment he is now having an hour sleep in the morning, and a two hour in the afternoon. i wouldnt worry too much about it, she will sort herself out again soon. it really is hard and i can only offer hugs to you. i hope things start improving for you soon xx

[MummaSue]

Thank you my lovelies!! Just wanted to see what others were doing. I'm so confused about many many things just now...... *sigh*

Good luck Kate! Hope she snoozes for you tonight.

[HotI]

Thanks mate. I have finally got my LO to sleep and in bed just now. Hopefully she stays asleep for awhile.

Hope you guys have a good night.

Do you know our girls have now been out in the world for as long as they were in our tummies? crazyness!

[Miss.B]

MummaSue, big hugs hun. My wee man decided that he doesn't really need an afternoon nap anymore.......if I put him down any later than 4 pm, he won't go to bed until sometimes 9.30-10. So these days if he hasn't slept in the afternoon, I try and stretch him till bed time. It sometimes means going to bed earlier than his normal 8.30 pm bed time, except that he tends to wake up during the night and find it hard going back to sleep (over tiredness). He's always had sleep issues during the day. At best, he would sleep an hour from say 10.30-11.30 in the morning and then for 30-45 minutes around 2.30. That was a few months ago. Now we seem to have the new improved (not for me, for wee man - more play time, yaaaaaaay!!) sleeping times during the day. And, no teething here!!!!! GL hun, hope your wee princess catches that little sleep before 3 pm!!

[MummaSue]

Do you know our girls have now been out in the world for as long as they were in our tummies? crazyness!

I KNOW My mum was asking me yesterday what she should get for her 1st birthday. I told her not to because my baby isn't going to be turning one. EVER. She's my BABY!

Thanks for your responses guys. It would seem that 9 months is a difficult time from what you all say and I am certainly finding that to be the case, with sleep and a few other things.

Yesterday we stretched her out. DH took her for a walk after dinner and he came home with a sleeping baby in the ergo That was at 6.30pm and she is STILL ASLEEP! She woke in the night for feeds but has pretty much been asleep since then. When she wakes for feeds, it's a quick nom nom nom then back over (usually).

Hmmmm...... DH is thinking that a walk after dinner and bath might be the way to go - we'll see. The wee rascal changes things so frequently that this will work for a few days and then it won't.

[Miss.B]

It's very true MummaSue, what works one day is not guaranteed to work the next. I've taken my DS for a wee walk in the late afternoon before dinner a few times and sometimes he goes down a lot easier and sleeps longer when the time comes for bed. It might be the fresh air that does it I think. It might be worth trying it out. You could try a walk before dinner and bath or after dinner but before bath??