Naps/daytime sleep

What time are you up in the morning? You should aim to have 12 hours between when baby wakes up and goes to bed at least

We use huckleberry and it’s pretty accurate so far! We’re down to 3 naps a day. This week he’s been fighting his last nap. Napping 1.5hrs per nap. Last nap is around 30-45minutes if he takes it. Make sure your huckleberry app is set to the right sweetspot settings also!

Mine used to nap for 30 minutes before too and it sucked 🫠🫠🫠

Also how are you putting yours down for naps? Before we would feed to sleep and transfer and that’s when naps were short! Now he’s pretty much sleep trained. We put him in his crib awake and let him fall asleep on his own

I would like for him to wake up around 7/8 but he tends to wake up around 9am
I’d be happy with a 9pm bedtime

I’m hoping this will pass soon ❤️
I know all of this is such a short period of time in our lives, I’m trying to soak it all in and appreciate it as best as I can

If I’m lucky I can nurse him to sleep lol
But most naps I put him in the carrier and rock him to sleep while singing to him (he has like 5 songs on a playlist that will put him to sleep like magic) and patting his butt.

We cosleep and all naps are contact naps so I gently get him out of the carrier and hop into the bed with him lol

I’m beginning to think there’s something wrong with my app
Cuz WHY does the schedule say “wake up at 7:30am, nap at 9:30am” when he doesn’t usually wake up until 9am?

Why does huckleberry keep making my baby stay up so lateeee 🤣😭
I’m confused

I also use the huckleberry app and it’s almost always on point! Check your settings and adjust when you want the ideal wake up and bedtimes!

As for the last ‘nap’ that it’s telling you to give your baby, just put him to bed at that time. My app sometimes tells me baby needs to nap at 7, when his bedtime is 730, so we just start our bedtime routine at 7 and he’s asleep by 730.

We have been on a 3 nap system for a while, and I think moving towards 2 naps given that he fights his last nap hard and it seldom lasts more than 40 mins.. on average he gets 2.5-3 hours total nap time a day.. tbh I don’t stress about it length of naps, I focus more on total nap time during the day so maybe try that? .. 4 hours of nap time for a 6 month old is a lot so if you just do bedtime at 830 or whenever that last ‘nap’ is suggested, it should just morph into his nighttime sleep!

Also, to add to that.. to help you feel more confident (because you know your baby best!!) take a few days and really watch his sleepy cues. My very happy baby will happily stay awake for HOURS and not cry once, I have learned that glossy eyes are a tell tail when it’s nap time. 95% of the time the glossy eyes line up with the app, but sometimes they don’t and that’s ok! The app is meant to be a guide, not a definite! I think it does help get sleep on the right path, but it’s not meant to replace a mom intuition! You got this!!

I always try to just put him to bed when I feel that last nap is too late
But somehow the app knows he’s not gonna sleep through the night lmao
Cuz it never fails, he will only end up sleeping like 30/40min and then his eyes pop open and he’s happy and ready to get up again 😅

I will try not using the app for a few days though
I need to gain that confidence.
For all I know I’m trying to make him sleep too much, I know all babies have different sleep needs.

My mom is constantly reminding me that I hated napping as a baby and I quit taking naps altogether at 2yo

I try to let him stay up for about 2 - 2 1/2hrs
But I think maybe I should extend that?
I’m seriously starting to think something is wrong with my app lol

thank you!!!
I’ve definitely been trying to get him to sleep for about 4hrs during the day and obviously that’s not appropriate at this age anymore lol

Is there a way for me to help him learn to connect his sleep cycles?
The only thing I’ve found that works best is for me to stay right by his side, that’s when he will take the longest naps

this is exactly what I did with my guy too! I can attest that it works 😊

you got this!! …

Some nights my little guy gets fussy at the 30-40 min mark and I need to go into his room and ‘ssh’ him. What I’ve found to be key in that is to not get him out of his crib in those moments. It’s nighttime, it’s bedtime.. that’s my moto on it. Same thing if he wakes at like 2am, no way are we starting our day at that time 😂 overtime, his body has adjusted to the sleep schedule.

It sounds like he isn’t fully connecting his sleep cycles which might be why he’s always waking at that mark. I found most helpful to either rock baby till he was drowsy but not sleeping or just putting him in his crib and letting him fall asleep on his own (I stayed in the room with him to support him until he figured it out).. and if he does wake up in that 30-40 min mark upset I know he’s not ready to wake and I’ll help him go back to sleep by placing my hand on his tummy, or it turns into a contact nap.. if he wakes up happy in the 30-40 min mark, well, It means he’s ready to go!

Thank you ladies so much ❤️

I am what I call a “CIO survivor” so I’ve been super against any form of sleep training, but I really need to get over that a bit!
I know there are gentle ways of helping them to learn how to sleep a bit more independently.

I am very lucky that my LO rarely ever actually wakes up during the night (since he’s right next to me I’m able to just pop the booby in his mouth when he starts stirring)
It’s during the day that we have some issues.

But I just realized that I don’t try hard enough to get him to fall back to sleep when he has those short naps.
I usually just cuddle him and give him kisses when I see he’s awake, which is probably making him more alert and ruining my chances of getting him to fall back to sleep 🤣

I might just have to try the SIT BACK approach in a way that works best for us!

I started something called nap training. Super helpful and helped our baby go from 30 min naps to 1-1.5 hour naps. He takes 2-3 a nap. One long one and 1-2 short ones.
Once you put baby down for their nap keep them in their crib (or whenever they sleep) for an hour.
You can go in and comfort them if they wake up within that hour, but keep them in the crib the entire hour. It’s hard at first but eventually my baby learned to sleep the entire hour. That’s my advice to give it a try!