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OK, so my twins were the same way, but apparently I had forgotten just how much my babies love to sleep! My newbie, 4-months-old, has to be woken every morning and from almost every nap. She sleeps 12 hour nights and I still have to rattle her (literally put hands on her and rattle her lol) to get her up - sweet baby just squints up at me and gives the biggest smile when I do that :) Then there's the naps - 3 of them! 9:30 am - 12 noon, 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm and a quickie from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm. I wanted to cut the third but she aint having it! I'm lucky if she naturally wakes from one of these naps per day. Crazy girl! And she only gets fussy when it's time to sleep, she's so mellow otherwise. You could set your clock by her! She will be playing, or I'm holding her, and she starts whining and rubbing her head back and forth. She doesn't stop until I hand her her lovie and put her down in her crib. Then she proceeds to "burrow" and konk out before I've even fully closed her bedroom door. She continues to fuss if I try to rock her, even for a second, she just wants her crib and to be by herself. She's so adamant about her sleep! It's funny!

I'm not so much complaining, just wondering if anybody else's babies are borderline narcoleptic? lol (not literally)

Both my boys went thru that, esp younger. Older one always wanted to stay up all night and "party" . He was our only then and my husband snow plows in winter so they would stay up and watch movies or play video games. Younger son is quite independent one and just wanted certain things "his way" (still does at 3) and would crash for so long my husband would make me wake him up after like an hr nap thinking he wouldnt sleep at night, which he always did just like yours. Until school started this Sept for little one, his reg sleep schedule was like 10 hrs a night and a 3 hr nap in afternoon! lol

It's funny you say that, my mom said that all four of us (siblings and I) napped until the day we left for kindergarten. My two-year-olds still take a 3 - 3.5 hour nap every afternoon like clockwork, and still sleep 12 hour nights like your son did. They neeeeeed that nap!

The irony is that my husband and I are late to go to bed and early, early to rise. We require and desire very little sleep.

My son has slept through the night, average of 12 hours, for the most part, since he was 7 weeks old. He has had his blips here and there of waking up at night, but that is rare and sporatic (usually when he's teething). He used to also take 2-3 naps during the day like your girls. Right now he is on just one nap each day, and that can be anywhere from 2-4 hours. I think he gets his love of sleep from his daddy LOL, because like you I'm just not a big "sleeper". If you ask him if he's ready for his nappy and "Mr. Binks" (his pacifier) he runs excitedly into his room ready and willing for night-night time :)

My 4-year-old would never sleep if I didn't make her. Until recently (she started preschool this year, so I think that has something to do with it), she complained about bedtime. Now she is wiped by 7:30 so she finally goes to bed willingly.

No. My babies didn't like sleep at all. They prefered to be awake. They are 5 and 12 now and they still prefer to be awake. They go to sleep easily, but they don't sleep for long. I need more sleep than they do.

My kids were great sleepers as babies and for the most part, it continues today! My 12 YO is getting pretty good at staying up later now, but my 10 YO still fades fast at bedtime. And forget about her at slumber parties - she's always the first out!

No. My babies didn't like sleep at all. They prefered to be awake. They are 5 and 12 now and they still prefer to be awake. They go to sleep easily, but they don't sleep for long. I need more sleep than they do.

Gail, none of my 3 children are good sleepers and I feel the same way (it seems that I need more sleep than they do too!) My youngest is the worst. Didn't sleep more than 3-4 hours at a time overnight until almost 1 yr old. Barely naps @ 17 months. I'd love to have a baby who wants to sleep!!!

Since my girls are not quite independent sleepers, I NEED MORE SLEEP.
DD#1 would only nap on me, until she finally was 1 year old and then accepted nap time in her crib. At that point her 2-3 daily mini 1/2 hour naps combined to 1 daily 2 hour nap ONLY in her crib. Nap time requires 1/2 hour mini-bedtime routine; bedtime routine takes 1 hour. Now, she will nap at Grandma's (when we are having a longer visit), but that took a lot of work to get to that point. This week she was sick, ans ASKED to take a nap (on the couch with no routine) and later ASKED to go to bed, both EARLY for her normal times.
DD#2 only naps on me, and refuses to go to her crib at 9pm or 10:30pm when she's napping on me. She'll finally transition there at 12 midnight or 1am. She'll sleep until 9am, but it doesn't seem like that's enough sleep for me. That might have something to do with DD#1 waking up early, and needing consoling or cuddling.
Is it bedtime yet? Nope, it's almost lunch time.