4 month old daycare naps

Daycare Question

How do working moms cope with crap naps at daycare? I know at around 4 months it’s said that babies should be transitioning from 4 to 3 naps which my little one has been doing great with when I have him all day on the weekends. When he’s at daycare during the week, he naps on demand and it’s really a wash on if it’ll be a 30 minute nap or an hour. Most of the time 30 minutes. And the number of naps, there was one day last week where he had 4 crap naps while he was there until I picked him up at 4:30 and he had his last nap on the car ride home. So 5 naps for that day. Does the number of naps count as much as how much daily they’re getting? I just keep hearing “your baby should be on this many naps and be on a structured schedule” and it feels like I’m behind.

Posted Jun 23, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC

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