Short naps - help 😅
Any advice on how to get my 5 month old to extend his naps? No matter where he naps (cot, car, pram, or contact nap) he will almost always wake up after 30-40 minutes and have around 5-6 naps a day! He will wake up in a good mood then be incredibly grumpy and want to go back to sleep about half an hour later. It's almost like he has part 1 and part 2 of a nap before he can have a proper wake window 😴 Has anyone else experienced this, and what can I do differently?
Night sleep isn't too bad - bedtime at half 8 ish and then 2 short wake ups before waking for the day at 6am.
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We have this! Our almost 5 month old does 30 min sleep cycles, but with one long 2 hour nap a day. We have to FIGHT for that 2 hour nap - but once we get through the half hour danger zone he will sleep comfortably. We find the best way to do this is to be ready and waiting at half an hour - jigging, patting, shushing him etc. He will try and wake up and be soothed back to sleep immediately. After we get through the half hour window we're generally good for a longer nap! It's a really normal thing - your baby is just struggling to join his sleep cycles during the day x
I had exactly the same issue and nights had gone to pot too! I asked chat GPT and omg its changed everything 🤣 went from 6 wakes in the night to 2 for just feeds. Self soothing to sleep and now longer naps. We are only two weeks in but seen such a change and the advice/ timings is all personalised! Basically we weren't having long enough wake windows to create enough sleep pressure for longer naps! X
My daughter is the same, she seems to have really short wake windows because her naps are so short
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