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How to lengthen daytime naps in the cot?

Sleep-trained baby, falls asleep independently at night and throughout the night. Falls asleep independently at naps, too - but only naps 30 mins at a time! I can see he’s still tired when he wakes up, and his wake windows can’t be too long otherwise he gets overtired, so I do think he needs to lengthen his naps.. but how to help him?

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I personally would stretch wake windows as under tiredness more common than overtirednesd. Why not try it and see!

Had the same issue and extended the wake window to just under 4 hours and nap went from 30 mins to between 60-90

It's hard when they probably need a longer wake window and less naps when they are only sleeping for 30 mins. My little boy just shifted to longer naps one day but in the run up I was helping him get back to sleep by basically cuddling him in his cot- holding his arms by his side.

My wee boy wakes at about 30mins almost every single nap time, it used to be killer but then I cam across advice on reddit saying to leave them 20mins (if not crying or upset) and see if they go back to sleep. Was such a game changer, he 9 times out of 10 goes back to sleep and has 1.5-2hr naps now, his 3rd nap is still short but that works for us - would definitely recommend giving it a go if you haven’t already!

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