Gradually increasing wake windows throughout the day
I know it’s typically advised that the first wake window of the day is the shortest and the last one before bedtime be the longest but it seems it’s the opposite for my LO?
Shes 4 months and no matter when I start trying to wind her down for her naps she always falls asleep at the 2 hour mark (almost always on the dot). Her last ww before bedtime is then 1.5 hours most of the time. But then she’s waking up every 2 hours so could she be overtired?
Is this normal? Is there anything I should be doing differently?
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My lO is 5 months tomorrow and I tried the shorter wake window first thing and he's not having it 🤣🤣 so we are trying two hours now think they can be anywhere from two to two and a half wake windows not 100% sure though xx
4 months olds should have wake windows max 2 hours. Because the nervous system otherwise gets overwhelmed.
So you need to put her/him to sleep at around 1:45 , so that they are asleep as it’s gets to 2 hours.
Hi, at this stage we followed huckleberry sweetspot and it was great to predict naptimes. I think we started to wind down 1:45 hrs and in 10 mins he was fall asleep. I would not increase wake window yet.
Just follow sleepy clues such as rubbing their eyes, being a bit fussy, being slower, yawning.
If anything the nap before bed time I have made the shortest when my children were the same age as yours. I’d let them have as long as they wanted for their first/second naps and then the last one would be about half an hour. They naturally would have a longer nap at lunch time and the other two would be shorter, but the one before bed time would be to tide them over til bed time, and would be the first one I would drop when cutting down to two naps. Also, as she’s four months, it could just be the sleep regression that’s making her wake. If she was overtired then it would be difficult to get her to go to sleep and stay asleep, lots of false starts, you’d be able to tell if she was overtired!
Seems to be the same for us atm! First one is longest then last one is really short!
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Gradually increasing wake windows throughout the day
I know it’s typically advised that the first wake window of the day is the shortest and the last one before bedtime be the longest but it seems it’s the opposite for my LO?
Shes 4 months and no matter when I start trying to wind her down for her naps she always falls asleep at the 2 hour mark (almost always on the dot). Her last ww before bedtime is then 1.5 hours most of the time. But then she’s waking up every 2 hours so could she be overtired?
Is this normal? Is there anything I should be doing differently?
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