Extending Naps

So my little girl is 8 months and is sleep trained on a night and has no issue sleeping. She sleeps from 7:15pm-6:30am and only takes her 10/15 mins to fall asleep herself.

She has always had contact naps but I’ve been trying to use the Ferber method to train her for her naps. It has been taking her 30mins to fall asleep but she wakes up after 30-40mins. How can I get her to extend her naps? I’ve tried the crib hour technique but she just cries hysterically until I go get her out of the cot. She always used to have 1hr 15-1hr 30 when she contact napped.

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Hi Amanda! Wow she’s doing amazing at night. I would continue nap training her with the interval method (Ferber) since she did so good with that.

A few questions: what do her wake windows look like?(how long she’s up between naps)
And how is she being put down for nap? Ex. Rocked, fed to sleep, straight in crib awake

so her first wake window is between 2hr45-3hr, second wake window is 3hr-3hr15, then last wake window is 3hr30 before bed. I am putting her in her crib awake

Ok those look really good!
Since she’s used to contact napping there will be some protest at first but with the interval method if you stay consistent you will get results! Naps do take longer to sleep train then nighttime sleep. A few things I’d recommend:
1. Build sleep pressure on wake windows if you aren’t already make sure you’re giving her lots of time to be active and- I have a guide on wake window activities for different age groups I can send your way if you’re interested.

2. Do a short bedtime routine before naps. This can be simple as just a book in her room then have a phrase you say every time you put her to sleep I say “night night I love you” every time to my son!

3. Blackout curtains and a sound machine! Highly recommended to all my clients!!! This is a game changer

4. If doing the interval method you can try giving her a little more time for naps for ex don’t go in and soothe until 10min or so. This will give her time to practice soothing

Let me know if you have any other questions!! 💗

that would be great if you could send me the guide for activities. Yeah we have a nap time routine that only takes about 5 minutes. I’ve been singing the same lullaby that I would when I rocked her to sleep. Do you think this is a good idea to still sing this to her before I put her in her cot?

Yes!!! Of course the lullaby is great. The repetitiveness of it every time you put her to sleep eventually becomes a sleep cue for babies. Telling their brains it’s time to sleep!! As long as you put her in drowsy but awake

I’d love to -You can send me your email or if you’d like to dm me on Instagram I can send it to you there @sleepbestie whatever you’d prefer ❤️

thank you. I’ll dm you on Instagram

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