Naps
Anyone else’s LO still napping 30/40 minutes at a time?
He’s 6 months next week!
I feel like he’s been doing this forever and thought he’d give me a good hour or so by now 😩
He can link sleep cycles at night as he does a good 5 hour stretch but through the day he is up after half an hour everytime! (Even contact naps)
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Yeeep but he only wakes 1x at night so i comprimise and accept the cat naps
Yes, we're having like 5 of them a day as he gets so tired 🙃 He can connect at night but wakes every 2 hours still
Same here, at night it’s fine but in the day if I’m holding her and I’m lucky I can get 50 minutes but it’s usually 28-35
We’re the same here! I panicked and rushed to try lengthening wake windows and trying to cut down to 4 naps etc but it made him grumpy, so just went back to how it was before as he is well rested and we’re happy with night sleep!
My LO is 6 months on Monday ☺️
My 5.5 month old is only on 3 naps & they're often short too!
Can get a longer middle nap when in the car or pram - especially outside the - currently sat in the garden while he naps & nearly done 90 mins, but otherwise 1 cycle length mostly in the cot.
Has done a few longer than morning naps, but don't know what the secret sauce was those days!
Mostly waking twice for feeds at night unless been a very crap nap day & overtired!
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2) are your babies really noisy and wriggly after night feeds but absolutely fine in the day?! If so, any tips please 🙏
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