Screaming at nap time

Does she have regular wake windows? How long is she awake between naps and how long are her naps?

If she’s fighting naps it might be that she’s under tired or ready to drop a nap.

She’s awake about 1.75-2.25 hrs and her naps are about 30 minutes. I want to get her to drop the last nap as she’s still on 4 but she gets up at 5am so it’s hard to stretch it to bedtime x

You could try stretching her wake windows slightly, even by 15 mins or so, and see how she takes it. If you’ve tried rocking and feeding and she still isn’t sleeping, seems most likely she’s not tired yet.

Does she nap in her pram? I found the easiest way to tell when my baby was wanting to be awake longer was taking her on a pram walk and seeing when she fell asleep.

Last week she jumped from 2.5-2.75hr wake windows to 3-3.5hrs. Naturally she dropped her third nap this way. First wake window tends to be the shortest and the rest are longer.

My little one done this around 5 months for about 2 weeks then went back to his usual, I thought he was maybe having a growth spurt or going through a developmental stage x

I'd try stretching wake windows, I find my boy does this if I try put him down to soon.. generally his wake windows are 2.5-3 hrs now. Maybe 2.15 for the first one! I've never really used an app but tried huckleberry for a few days recently and it was suggesting to soon and he was getting upset where usually he goes down without a peep.

Yeah my girl is usually upset with her naps I think she’s overtired. At bed time she’s happy falling to sleep and will self settle. I haven’t found a solution so can’t help in that sense but you’re not alone x

My girl is the same. Cries for her afternoon naps and stuck on 4 naps too as can’t stretch her wake windows. Have tried but she’s usually rubbing her eyes and yawning before 2 hours. Also can’t get her to extend her naps. She self settles at night but can’t for her naps x

Exactly the same. Been fighting naps for few weeks now. Since this week he's also fighting night time sleep. Really hope it's a phase. However once he sleeps at night he's sleeping well and long.

My LG has never liked naps but it has gotten much harder at 5 months, I think there is a leap around then where they get separation anxiety. She's 5.5m heading to 6, and its starting to get better.
I gave up following Huckleberry, it was right sometimes, but I think it also depended a lot on if she had a lot of stimulation or got excited around nap time, then she would not feel tired. So I just let her stay up and experimented. Sometimes they're just not tired when the app says they are.

My advice would be to stop following strict schedules. I drove myself insane trying to follow the same schedule every day! I was stressing she wasn’t sleeping the same times every day - once I realised that some wake windows was 1.5 hours and some are 3 hours… my life became so much simpler! I’ve only come to this realisation about 2 weeks ago, I do all the usual activities and let her just ‘shout’ for a bit (not crying).

I feel it’s important for babies to feel almost bored for a bit, learn about their voice. I find if I let her shout for about 15 minutes after she starts rubbing her eyes, she’ll go down a dream for 40 mins or so.

But all babies are different! Important to note that most babies in this age category are going through 2 weeks of fussiness around this time. Might just be a learning leap! All things aside, it’ll be okay in the long run 💕

My baby has went through phases of this also, he’s 6 months now and it’s not so bad. All babies are different but I know in our case my son starts to rub his eyes and slam his toys when he’s getting tired, then I know it’s time for a nap or hell will break loose😂 it’s totally normal though and it will pass x