Baby permanently tired
My Lo will only nap for 30 minutes but I know she’s still tired when she wakes up, but it’s impossible to get her back down. Within an hour she’s hysterical and has to go back to bed. Any advice on how to extend naps? I’m getting frustrated that the situation seems never ending but I don’t know what to do.
I’ve played around with longer and shorter wake windows but nothing seems to help 😩
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Firstly I've been here and it's a horrible cycle, it does get better! ❤️ when you say you tried longer wake windows how long did you stick to it? We had this exact problem at around 4 months when babe was taking 4 naps a day. I increased her wake windows from 1.5 to 2 hours and dropped to 3 naps a day and after a few days of sticking to it naps got longer and she got sooooo much happier. She did used to wake up in between sleep cycles still but I left her in her cot for ten minutes to see if she would fall back asleep, was hit and miss at the start but then she caught on. I know it seems counter intuitive to keep her awake when she's so tired, I felt the same, but it did work for us! The thing is with short naps is you have more naps and so more wake windows and then babe ends up having too much total awake time even though it feels like all you're doing is putting them to bed all day! You got this xx
You tried white noise?
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