Nap Drop & Wake Window Increase Question

Anyone drop a nap in their baby’s schedule yet? If so how’d ya do it? My baby will be turning 5 months on Monday and is currently taking 5 naps a day. He sleeps through the night from 9pm - 5:30am and seems to want to sleep longer during naps as of yesterday. So I’m thinking this is a good sign to drop a nap and increase his wake window to 2.5 hours instead of 2. I want to give this new schedule a try today especially since he’s about to turn 5 months in two days. But I am so unsure and nervous to try it out. Do I just give it a go and see what happens? Or do I see how he does again with his 5 nap schedule before changing his nap schedule? He was also feeding every 3 hours but yesterday he didn’t want to finish every single bottle which also makes me think I should try to feed him at every 3.5 instead and see if that makes a difference. Just curious for an outlook opinion and see if this would be a good move to try it out. I read that 5 months old babies usually do 3 naps but I know every ones different. How many naps is your 5 month old taking? Thoughts/advice on this is appreciated ❤️

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I never changed babys sleeping habits, just went with their clues 🙂 for feeding it could be just a phase but there is no harm in trying to feed every 3.5h, see if he is happy until then 🙂

I would try for a few days and see how it goes. If it doesn't work out go back to your previous schedule and try again in a couple weeks. Babies are just a bunch of trial and error 😂

I don't mind how many naps he has but I try not to let them total over 4 hrs all together as if you want them to ideally sleep 12 hrs a night then you don't want them having too much daytime sleep. My lo will only tend to take 40 min naps at the moment anyway but sometimes he'll surprise us with an hour or so 🤣 With regards to feeding my lo is taking less the last week or so but think it's to do with teething x

We are 5 and a half months and have reduced to three naps with either 2 or 2.5 hour wake window and a night time sleep of 7.30pm-7am. Our night time sleep reduced for a few days so we cap naps at 3 hours during the day if she sleeps the full 11/12 hours at night! This works really well for my little one but she’s always had low sleep needs during the day

Between 3-4 naps. He turned 5 months on Wednesday 😯

Thanks all for your responses, their all very helpful 🥰💕

My 5 month old son does 2 naps and they are cat naps but then at night he will fight sleep so bad it's tiring for me as just want 5 mins x

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