Short naps!!!! Tried more A time and less A time.. At a LOSS!

[Luvbeingmama]

So my 16 almost 17 week old keeps taking 35-45 minute naps. I've tried extending his A time and lessening it. I don't really know how to do it or what I should be looking for. There have been a few fluke days where he'll throw in a long nap and so I've tried to figure out what the similarities were on those days but can't find anything because when I repeat the same amount of wake time- it doesn't work. Here are a few of the days where he gave me a long nap... Maybe someone else can enlighten me??

Awake and Eat 7:15
AT 1hr 50min
  Nap 9:05-10:50
Eat 10:55
Nap 12:15-1:00
Eat 1:35
Nap 2:50-3:30
Eat 4:30
Nap 5:35-6:15, 6:20-7:40
Eat 7:45
Bed 9:50
Eat 10:30

Eat 8:15
AT 1hr 20min
  Nap 9:35-11:45
Eat 11:50
AT 1hr 20min
  Nap 1:10-3:30
Eat 3:35
Bath 5:30
Eat 6:00
AT 2hr 40min
Nap 6:10-8:55
Eat 9:00

Eat 8:00
AT 1hr 30min
Nap 9:30-10:05
Eat 10:30
AT 1hr 50min
  Nap 11:55-2:05
Eat 2:15
AT 1hr 45min
Nap 3:50-4:40
Eat 5:10
Eat 8:10
AT 3hr 40min
Bed 8:20
Eat 11:00

Eat 6:45
AT 1hr 20min
Nap 8:05-9:00(?)
Eat 9:45
Nap 11:00-11:30
Eat 12:35
  Nap 1:10-3:55
Eat 4:00
Nap 5:45-6:15
Eat 7:00
Eat 9:00

[lauradj]

Hi there, sorry no one has responded yet!  At this age, short naps are pretty typical.  Many babies will take 30-45 minute naps and there's virtually nothing you can do to prolong them.  It will end, that I can promise, if you just stick with your routine as it provides consistency.   
If you are going to attempt any further tweaks to his routine, make sure you give a solid week/week and a half for each to see whether it is effective or not.  Constantly changing baby's 'A' time will only confuse him and make him more OT or UT.

[Luvbeingmama]

Oh ok! That's good to know.. Thank you for your reply. It's nice to know that it's "normal". It's just hard when I talk to most of my friends and none of them experienced this. I just don't want it to become a habit  How do we avoid that?!