Daytime sleep/sleep regression

I’m assuming we’ve started the sleep regression, resistance to daytime naps and increased waking at night (gone from once to every 3 hours)

However, what are we doing for daytime naps now they are understanding day and night?

Are you putting them into a dark room? Or trying to get them down in daylight?

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Yes sounds like 4mo sleep regression. We’re hopefully almost through it, took around 6 weeks. For daytime naps, when home in dark room with white noise I’ve found to be the best way to get my little girl down. However naps are still 30-45 mins max, which is a bit brutal for us but developmentally correct for their age! Main piece of advice is that they need whatever they had to get them to sleep to stay asleep/connect their sleep cycle - so for us keeping a routine, going by wake windows and trying to intervene as little as possible when they are falling asleep seems to work best! Good luck, and try to remember it’s all just a phase - easier said than done when they are smiling at you after a 27 min nap 🙃

We got in and out of it pretty quick I want to say about 4 nights ish. But I did leave my boy a few minutes before rushing in at night. This helped him to start to settle on his own. Each to their own though I get that xx

we do 30 min cat naps in the day too! Last night he didn’t have a nap for over 5 hours because he just refused to go down. Every time I put him down he started smiling at me 😂

that’s so good! I have been leaving him when he first wakes to see if he’ll re-settle and he does usually so only feeding once in the night xx

that’s really good, we are down to one feed now too which is lovely lol. Beau will sleep longer in the day if he’s on my bed so I just do that now and put his camera so I can see him. My eldest was the same and he transitioned well to naps in his cot and still naps religiously now at 3 lol. Do I sometimes have to wake him up from a 2 hour nap. Early days I just think do what you need to do to get through and better sleep in the day leads to better sleep at night xx

it’s so hard isn’t it! I’ve found some success in doing the last nap of the day in the carrier - I find if I put her in when she’s due a nap and start washing up her bottles then the water noise makes her nod off - it’s doing my back no favours but a bit better than her getting overtired and screaming at me while I stand in a dark room with her 🙄

We are about week 3 and a half but think we’re getting out of it, the only way is we rock her in her pushchair when she’s clearly overtired and upset can take a few minutes to 20 to get her Ina deep sleep then she’s only sleeping 30-40 mins x

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