Short naps!

Hi mamas, my boy has only had 30 min naps since he was newborn. He does 3x 30 min naps a day and im unsure if this is due to him not knowing how to link his sleep cycles.

He sleeps great at night with 1 wake up around 3am but generally will sleep from 6:30-6, we co sleep so I definitely think I’m that factors into him sleeping well at night.

Is anyone in the same boat with the short naps? We’re thinking of putting him into his own room soon so I don’t know if to start helping him to self soothe during nap time first? Any advice ? X

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I’m in the same boat but his sleep is terrible all round! He sleeps best in his pushchair if we’ve been for a walk I’m trying to get him into his cot more for a routine but I also have an older child so trying to occupy him whilst I do nap
Time is hard so he end up in the pushchair as it’s easier 🤷🏼‍♀️ would do anything for naps to improve as I think that would help nighttime.

I’m in the same boat😭😭

Im lucky if i get 1 x 30 min nap a day. We wake anywhere between 630 and 930 in the mornings. In bed by 630/7pm, wake anywhere between 1130 and 330am have a bottle and then possibly around 4am depending on the 1st wake up

We have the same here! 3x 30 minutes during the day, at night she sleeps in her own room and only wakes up once at around 3/4 but will generally do 7pm-7am (it took us a while to get this in her own room, at one point she was waking every 2-3 hours). The only way we can get her to nap longer is if she’s in her pram and we catch her just as she’s stirring and rock her again and she’ll do another 30-60mins, but that’s not always possible!
She’s only ever done 30 minute naps to, we thought moving her to her own room might help as there’s less disturbances, but it’s stayed the same!

Omg the short naps... I feel like I've been battling them forever 😂 don't get me wrong, I do occasionally get blessed with an hour or an hour and half and Im literally floored and don't know what to do with myself 😂

I honestly don't have much advice sorry... I've tried shortening the wake windows... Lengthening them...changing prenap routine, changing when bottles are fed...changing bed time! And nothing has lengthened them... Then when I don't change anything he'll randomly give me a longer one 😂🤣 Tbh I think it's all developmental and they get there at some point but my god it's tiring!

We're also going through the early rise phase. Where he wakes up around 5 ready for the day babbling 😂 he didn't use to do the before 6 months and can be a task to get him back down 🤣 x

P.s my boy is technically sleep trained (he goes in his own room and goes to sleep himself without assistance most days) so it may not change anything with the room transfer but fingers crossed you get some luck! Xo

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