hi everyone, just a quick question,, how much should a 4 month old be sleeping during the day?
we dont really have a strict routine, but he will normally wake around 9am stay awake until about 12 where he will have about an hour nap, then have another hour around 3-4pm , then maybe about a half hour around 7-8pm then he will stay awake until about 10.30pm (we put him down for the night with us as i dont trust baby monitors, we used one with my daughter and when she was 4 days old it blew up) he doesnt sleep through yet, he will wake for a feed about 4 and again at 7. he is on solids now and has 3 meals a day with one of them about an hour before bedtime.

tia

Hey gemmalou!

Aubrey Ann is a week over 3 months and she takes 4 one to one and a half hour naps per day, goes to bed at 8pm and wakes at 8am. She gets a total of 16 to 18 hours of sleep per day.

Hope that helps!

Hi there -

My four month old really doesn't have a routine yet. I thought she had one a few weeks back, but it has all changed again recently :) Some mornings she is up at 7 and stays awake - some mornings she will go right back down and sleep until 8/8:30. She usually requires a nap around 10ish, but if we're out, she will doze a lot in the car and will finally have a melt down when we get home around noon and sleep for a bit then. She needs another nap in the afternoon (which she doesn't always take), and then goes down somewhere around 10:30 pm. My daughter is waking up anywhere between 2 and 4 for another feeding and then we're back where we started at 7am again.

I just started my daughter on cereal last week, and just increased it to twice a day today (I'm a first time mom, so I do things slower than you veterans :) ). I'm hoping by the time she is on a more routine feeding schedule next week that she will sleep more...but I'm not counting on it!!