Anyone with 4+hr wake windows?

If you have 4+hr wake windows and a good sleeper can you please tell me your nap routine/wake up and bed time? We have been trying 1 nap but it's not quite enough but there's not enough hours in the day for 2 naps?? And LO is a terrible sleeper at night so need some help lol!

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Same 😀 now usually up at 6.30-7, first nap around 10, second around 3 which makes bedtime around 8 or later which is getting too late for us. What works atm is walking around 2-2.30- our little one gets sleepy and falls asleep sooner than he would at home plus stroller nap is never more than 30-40 mins. I think we will try to push the first nap later soon and get on 1 nap, last wake window is already at 4.5-5 hrs 🙈 but the first one is more 3-3.5 so a bit tricky

@Karo that's exactly what our naps used to be but 2nd nap is just not happening anymore! I also have a school run at 1pm and 3pm to throw into the mix so the timing of 1 nap is so tricky as i'd love to just do 12-2! Lol

This has been working for a few weeks *fingers crossed* but little one wakes up between 6-7am (usually 6:15)

We always work off when he rubs his eyes we try to get him down, but usually this is around 10:30/11 for 1hr -1hr 30. Then maybe 45 mins around 2-4 but he’ll often skip this.

Bath time is 6:30 and bedtime is 7/7:15. He sleeps through.

He eats three full meals and snacks throughout the day. BF when he wakes up and before bed and has a small morning bottle before his first nap and another bottle mid afternoon. He

I’ve got a sleep coach helping us right now and the routine she’s advised to do is:

7am wake up
9:30-10am nap
12:30-14:30pm nap
7pm bedtime

And aim for no more than 4 hours and 15 mins for final wake window.

It’s got our daughter from waking every 1-2 hours to doing 5+ hour chunks and we are only on day 3!

Our issue is that sometimes baby wakes from a nap after 40 mins. Do you comfort and put them back down for a longer nap or get them up? Sometimes makes the last wake window very long before bed!

if mine woke up from his last nap early I’d just get him up from then! Trying to get him back down etc would make it worse for mine x

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

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I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

Help meeee

!!All advice welcome!! My 5 month old (nearly 6mo) is just not sleeping . Not for naps and not at night . She can’t connect her cycles . We started sleep regression at 3 months but in like how is this nearly been going on for a further 3 months . Like surely not . She has 10 min naps in crib ( which take so much effort ) and maybe 20/30 min naps in my arms/pushchair . She wakes minimum every hour at night with guaranteed false start 20 mins in . I combo feed. I breastfeed her until almost asleep then place her in the next to me crib give her the pacifier and put my hand on her cheek/face for 20 seconds and she drifts off . It’s not really getting her to sleep that’s the issue it’s she just won’t stay asleep . She doesn’t even need to feed much at night usually 1-2 breastfeeds . The rest is comfort wakes needing her pacifier or my hand on her cheek . I’ve looked into sleep associations and independent sleep and I broke the feed to sleep association and rocking and do bedside comforting instead for most wakes which has now lead to my hand being a sleep association on her face . I’m just so exhausted my husband is working mon-fri 9-9 and it’s just me . I haven’t had more than 4 hours in a row since her birth . I can’t get anything done during the day . She is so clingy and cries if I leave room /put her down etc. I love her so much but we both need rest . If anyone has any tips or a routine that could help PLEASE tell me I’ll try anything 🥲❤️❤️

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