3 Month Old Won T Nap. Keep your baby awake for no longer than 90 minutes. Put your baby down completely asleep and do the arm test to check. I am a first time sah mom to a beautiful healthy 3 month old boy and Im at a loss on how to get him to take naps during the dayThe swing and vibrating chair rarely work anymore and a trip in the car only sometimes works he usually wakes up as soon as I take the infant carrier out of the car. I am sure it is my fault because for the first three months of his life I would bounce and rock him to sleep.
A 1- and 2-month-old should get about the same amount of sleep 14 to 17 hours a day broken into eight to nine hours of nighttime sleep and another seven to nine hours of daytime sleep over the course of several naps. But I know I just cant do that forever. If he actually goes a full 45 minutes that is actually good. When you enter your babys room to feed or change him during the night. I mean when he gets to sleep he sleeps but getting him there is an affair every night. However as your baby nears 6 months the third nap may be dropped.
For other parents a baby wont nap despite sleeping fitfully through the night.
However as your baby nears 6 months the third nap may be dropped. Sleep problems can happen even when parents do everything right These are a few of the more common ones you may encounter at this age. 3 month old wont nap in crib. For other parents a baby wont nap despite sleeping fitfully through the night. As a first-time mom I figured my baby would nap when he felt. This means that baby is cycling through sleep every 60 120 minutes and then briefly waking up.