Your 8-month-old's sleep
At a glance: at this age your baby can stay awake for 2 h 20 min–3 h 40 min at a time, and needs 12–15 h of sleep per 24 hours.
Recommended awake time
2 h 20 min – 3 h 40 min
Number of naps
3
Total sleep per 24 h
12–15 h
Bedtime
8:00 PM
Sample schedule (8 months old)
Assuming a 7:00 wake-up — adjust it to your real wake-up.
- 7:00 AMWake up
- 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Nap 1
- 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM Nap 2
- 8:00 PMBedtime 🌙
What’s happening at this stage
Six to eight months is a season of big motor and social leaps — sitting, crawling, separation awareness — and each one can temporarily shake sleep (the “8-month regression” usually lands somewhere in here). Nights, meanwhile, are capable of genuinely consolidating.
Daytime structure matters most at this stage: three naps early on, with the third catnap typically dropping around 7–9 months. If the last nap is being refused for a week or more and bedtime keeps sliding late, that’s the 3-to-2 transition knocking.
Three things that help right now
- Practise new motor skills relentlessly during playtime — rehearsed skills disturb nights less.
- Use an earlier bedtime as the pressure valve whenever naps run short.
- Keep bedtime inside roughly 19:00–20:30; later rarely buys more morning sleep.
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General guidance for healthy babies — every child is different. This is not medical advice; talk to your pediatrician about your baby.
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