How Many Total Hours Should a 14 mo.old Sleep & How Many Naps (How Mant Hours)

No-Cry Sleep Solution has a chart for what number of hours babies should sleep by age, including naps, and number of naps per day.

I've read in several sleep solution books that you shouldn't keep a child up who's tired. This actually causes sleep disturbances.

Is there any way to let your baby sleep a little later in the morning? Maybe just wake your older child, help that one to get ready, and then wake your baby at the last minute for a diaper change, and give him a little snack that he can eat safely (that is choke-proof) in the carseat? You might even find that if you do it gently enough, you can transfer your sleeping baby to the carseat with little waking. Or else can you gradually get him accustomed to going to sleep a little earlier? My daughter used to go to sleep as early as 7:00.

About his naps, I think that since he's an older baby, one long nap sounds about right. It's also helping him to make up for the early waking. But it sounds like mornings might be a little more tantrum-ridden and less fun for you both, with him being tired! It's hard for a child to focus and stay calm through frustrating moments when stressed with fatigue. So, by adding another half hour or hour to his night's sleep on either end, either morning or night, you might find that a bonus is more peaceful mornings and more fun with your baby :) I know my daughter is a lot happier when she has had a good night's sleep. I really see the difference!

Hope this helps.

My 13 mon. is a great sleeper and has always been. She sleeps from 8-8. and sometimes takes two naps. I do have to say that if she takes a morning nap her afternoon nap gets pushed back. I do understand the family schedule, but 6 am seems early to me. Is that when your oldest gets up, is that when you have to get up, or was it the baby waking up on it's own? Do you have to wake the baby right away or can you let them sleep until your ready to go out the door??? I don't know your schedule, but can you throw the baby in the car last minute run the older ones to school then come home and get baby dressed fed ect... all in an effort to let the baby sleep longer in the morning. If this isn't an option I would consider adding a morning nap and pushing the afternoon nap back. Our daughter wakes up close to 8am. At times she is tired by 11, depending on what we are doing. So I put her down, usually from 11-12, we have lunch around 12:30-1 and then she will sleep again from around 2:30/3-4:30... then bed at 8. Most days, however, mostly due to our schedule, she gets one afternoon nap. I know by lunch time she is tired and cranky but I am not able to get in the morning nap so we may have lunch a little early, 12, and then I get her down for a nap around 1, she sleeps til 4 every time. I think all in all you need to be flexible with your nap times and breakfast/ lunch time. If you think your baby is cranky, try a morning nap and see what happens. Maybe try a 7:00 pm bedtime. Luckily I have a flexible schedule and our daughter has grown used to it and is very flexible herself.. but yes she gets tired and cranky as do I. Can we have two naps a day :)

It is most common for babies (at least 6-9 months)to take 2 naps a day until the age of about 18 months, then they transition to 1 nap a day. All babies are different but you know yours and if your little precious one needs two, he falls in line with the average. Getting up at 6am is pretty common. If you want to, you can change that by starting the bedtime routine later by about 15 min. each night till the desired time, but sometimes babies still get up at the same time. There are tons of books and web sites that say this (helpful when wondering what is average since many moms share very different experiences and babies with different needs) but one in particular is babycenter.com. It seems to back the American Academy of Pediatrics pretty well.

I have three children and they were all different on the amount of sleep they needed and when they got it. My oldest slept 12 hours at night and took 2 two hour naps during the day until 18 months - when I changed her schedule because of our family schedule. My youngest would never sleep that long at night and only took one nap during the day starting at around 12 months. Use the guides that you read as simply guides - all children are different and there is no magic formula to plug in. Make sure he is getting sufficient sleep for him to be productive and not fussy/crabby. You could play with the time of the afternoon nap if he seems sleepy in the morning. I remember moving lunch really early or pushing it later to accomodate nap schedules. Go with your gut - you are the mama and know him best!

That sounds like a sufficient amount of sleep and if the schedule is working for you then it is working. No need to 2nd guess yourself

Children this age who are in child care have to take one nap a day because it is how the schedule is made up for the days activities. If you are a stay at home mom then do whatever you want. Most kids this age are down to 1 nap and regular sleep hours in the evening. But things like growth stages can change all sorts of stuff. I know when the kids were about to have a growth spurt they would eat, eat, eat, chub up, eat more, and sleep, sleep, sleep. Then after the growth spurt happened they wouldn't eat as much or sleep near as much.

If you let him nap in the morning and then find he won't take a nap in the afternoon then falls asleep around 4-5 pm for a couple of hours and then stays up until midnight your whole schedule will be off. I say try to keep him on your current schedule if it is really working for you. Try eating lunch earlier putting him down for nap earlier and letting him sleep longer.

Like others have said it depends on the child. Around 12 months my oldest transitioned herself to one nap a day. And my second went to one nap a day around 13 months. It just depends on the child. My kids would always sleep (at that age) from 6:30-6 or 6:30. If your baby seems sleepy in the morning try putting him to bed a little earlier and maybe that would do the trick. Or doing his one nap 15-30 minutes earlier. But if his schedule works for you and he is doing well, then don't worry about it.