6 Month Old Sleep Schedule

Updated on February 22, 2011
P.B. asks from Matthews, NC
4 answers

My 6 month old baby has started taking a 3 hour nap in the mornings and I'm wondering if anyone else has a little one that does that. Her schedule is this:
6am - wake & nurse
8am - nap till 11am
11am - nurse
1pm - nap till 2pm
2pm - nurse
5:30 - nap till 8:30pm
8:30 - nurse
9 - bed
11:30 - wake & nurse
2am - wake & nurse
start all over!

any suggestions? I'd love to know other 6 month old schedules out there!
Thanks!

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So What Happened?

my son (now 2yrs old) at this age was going to bed at 6pm and waking at 6am - it was blissful! he also took 2 2-3 hour naps a day.
yesterday my little girl's sleep was like this:
3 hour nap in the morning
2.5 hour nap in the afternoon
slept from 7pm-11pm (woke, nursed)
back to sleep until 3am (woke, nursed)
back to sleep until 7:30am
now i've fed her, played with her and she's been sleeping again for 30mins.

My goal is OF COURSE to eliminate the night feedings - what to do?!?!

More Answers

M.M.

answers from Chicago on

DD just turned 6 mos.

Wakes between 4:30-5:30 for a bottle. Sometimes goes back down for an hour or two.

8:30ish - solids and bottle (most of a Stage 2 and 6oz)
9 - 11 nap
12 - solids and bottle (most of a Stage 2 and 6oz)
1-3:30ish - nap
4 - solids (Stage 2)
6 - bottle and bedtime (7oz bottle)
Sleeps through until about 5am. Rinse and repeat!

I'd put your little one down much earlier and eliminate that late afternoon nap. You might find that she sleeps a little better overnight. At 6mos, overnight feedings tend to become more of a habit for comfort, rather than a need.

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L.G.

answers from Eugene on

When you get four or five hours of sleep it's a full night. If the baby has teeth give her/him rice cream cereal at 8:30pm and you will get more sleep.

H.S.

answers from Cincinnati on

At 6 months, it sounds like an overload of sleep! But every child is different. The morning nap sounds really long to me if she's going right back down at 1pm. But the one from 5:30-8:30, then back down for bed at 9? Really? If she didn't have a 3 hour nap before bedtime, she would likely sleep a lot longer at night which would take out the 11:30 feeding all together. But it isn't bothering you, then that's up to you. Her only being awake 7 hours a day in a 24 hour period sounds like a 2 month old's schedule. At 6 months, both of my children were napping from 10-11a, and then from 2-4p and that was it.

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D.B.

answers from Charlotte on

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