Wake windows

Hi everyone! First time mum here. Just wondering how long you should keep little ones awake for during the day? My little boy is 4 weeks old on Monday and we do some tummy time / stories / talking to him etc but there’s no set routine really. Are there any rough guidelines of how long their wake windows should be during the day after a feed? He wouldn’t go down for two consecutive naps yesterday so then became really cranky and overtired so worried I’ll keep him up too long and have a negative effect!

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Use the Huckleberry app - it’s great! It’ll tell you how long Bub should be awake for at every stage :)

We have this same issue - we’re aiming for 80 mins at 1 month, and if we hit that with a good feed then she goes down beautifully, but if we miss that time slot we end up doing tummy time/play to keep her entertained and she’s up for hours and is overtired and fussy all evening! Not at all sure how to order the nappy change, feed, tummy time in these short windows. Interested to see if anyone else has any ideas!

Every baby is different. Just watch out for sleepy signs. My girl came early and is eight weeks now she can only last between 45 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes. I do think she’s more of a high sleep needs Baby.X

do you have to pay for this feature? I use the app but it doesn’t seem to tell me about the wake window. I saw someone else say they used it for that and loved it but wasn’t sure if this was an paid for feature x

it is a paid feature x

Huckleberry’s sweet spot feature (where it’ll predict the time for the next nap) kicks in at at about 2 months and won’t be available / very useful before this; our wake windows vary massively still so it’s very much us going off his cues! It’s anywhere between 20-40 minutes (usually in the evening) to up to 3 hours at 3 and a half weeks x

I just go with the flow and watch out for the queues

I have been thinking the same as I read so much online about wake windows and sleep routines for babies but I think it’s still too early to get into a perfect routine.
Sometimes my baby will have her feed and immediately want to sleep again and she’s been doing this all week. Other times she has stayed awake for a bit and will have some tummy time or go in her bouncy chair. It’s so different every day / every week so I just go with her cues and if that means she doesn’t have much awake time during the day then fine!
The only thing I will do is if I can see she has been awake for quite a while, like over an hour then I’ll start trying to settle her before she gets grumpy haha. I think take the pressure off of yourself and just go with your babies cues and when they get a bit older then it will be a lot easier to be in a routine 😊

We just go with the flow. No wake windows or routines. They're so little still 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 have a 4 month old and now all of a sudden when he’s been asleep for 1hr30/2hrs he will wake up screaming (high pitched) I’ve tried winding him sometimes that helps, I’ve tried bicycle legs & bringing his knees up but that doesn’t seem to help but he brings his knees up himself sometimes but nothing happens. I’ve noticed since the 4 month mark he has started to struggle passing wind downwards! Any tips?

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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