Baby doesn’t sleep

So my baby has been waking frequently every night for the last two months (she’s now 7 months), she can wake between 6 - 8 times a night. She barely naps in the day - at best three 30 min naps but she’s now trying to make this two naps! I know daytime naps impact sleep but how do you increase these for babies that point blank refuse??? The second the time hits 30 mins it’s like a switch and she’s wide awake. She’s a busy baby and plays a lot, goes to groups, swimming etc and no change. I started swimming as I was told how much this helps naps and sleep and she didn’t change at all! Are some babies just wired to not sleep?

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Have you tried resettling after the 30 mins or contact naps? If so do either of those improve the length of sleep? Some babies do just have short naps. Is she happy during her wake windows or grouchy and tired? x

@Yasmin I do contact naps which she prefers in the day, and I’ve tried resettling but still nothing more. She’s the happiest little baby all day, towards her bedtime she can get slightly grouchy - so I wonder if this is just who she is!

The night times will improve with age. We woke every 40 mins for months and then every 1-2 hours. At 11 months we’ve just started waking 2-3 times without changing anytime at all. It sounds like your little one is just a cat napper though! x

@Yasmin thank you so much! I needed to hear this. 😃 I’m so glad things have started to improve for you. Did you try a lot of different things that didn’t work too? She really is a cat napper! Xx

We played around with naps etc and did find a later bedtime helped when he was younger until around 10ish months. What really helped is moving dinner time closer to bed time (not sure how you’re weaning but if BLW this may make more of a difference as baby becomes more established on solids). I also did find more daytime sleep meant less night waking so at 11 months he has roughly 2.5-3 hours of day sleep which for some is a lot and I do notice if he has less because say we’re out and he wakes early he sleeps worse at night! I’d say have a play around with things but whatever you trial trial for a couple of weeks rather than chopping and changing as it takes a while to see a difference x

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