In my extensive experience of working one on one with nearly 10,000 kids, I’ve learned that the brain seems to treat sleep after 4 pm as “nighttime” sleep. They are napping too late into the afternoon/evening If your baby is napping a lot longer than 3.5 total hours each day, that may be contributing to night time wake ups. But all infants/toddlers should max out at around 3.5 hour total across all naps. Please know many kids sleep a lot less than 3.5 hours and that’s ok. Meaning, if baby starts their day at 7 am and goes to bed around 7 pm, naps should total no more than 3.5 hours each day. This is assuming they are on a 12 hour on/12 hour off schedule. Starting at four months of age, most babies should sleep only up to about 3.5 hours each day. Congratulations on your little one, many wishes for peaceful sleep on hour household.Thinking about sleep training? 2. I’d keep walking for 10 min after he fell asleep before I even thought about laying him down. But I would turn on the white noise and just pace. I’m surprised I didn’t wear a track in our living room floor. Anyway I’m rambling now, but one thing that helped us to get him to sleep was walking with him. You do what you can do survive and what works for you and baby. And just when you think she has a routine and you can breathe, she’ll probably change things up on you. Still did lots of contact naps until about 5 months. For our son, things improved around 3 months. Having a newborn is exhausting in so many ways that I never imagined. Just cried and cried if we laid him down. Ours wouldn’t sleep anywhere but our chests for quite a while. They want to be held and feel close to you because that is all they’ve known their whole life. Unfortunately this is totally normal for the newborn stage. I completely blacked out the nursery for naps and nighttime and it really helped my second baby. Not every baby, but some babies are very sensitive to light, even moonlight or a nightlight. Also making the room your baby sleeps in dark can help them stay asleep longer at night. It helps stimulate the production of melatonin. Certainly better than what you’re dealing with right now!Įdit: A couple more things you can do -> Give your baby exposure to sunlight, either by going outside or hanging out near a window for 15-20 minutes, especially in the afternoon. A lot of newborns don’t give you a 4-5hr stretch until they’re 2-3 months old, but 2-3 hr stretches are common at this age, as well as being able to nurse them back to sleep when they wake. Within a week he had switched to where he was sleeping a 4-5 hr stretch at night instead of during the day. If he slept past that I would wake him up. So I started limiting each of his naps to 2hrs. Mine was napping really good during the day, like 4 hour stretches sometimes. My second baby had his day and nights mixed up, and it sounds like yours does too. Back to rocking, possibly while nursing him. Wait until he's quiet for a few seconds before going back to bed. Touch his feet down first, gently rocking him still until he's fully in the crib. Slowly lower into crib on the warm patch left by the hot pad. Gently pick up baby, rock from side to side to mimic swing motion. Once baby is sleepy, remove hot pad from crib. If not, hang out on reddit or read an e-book until he is. Check to see if baby is quiet and dozing. Diaper change, still low light and minimal interaction Nurse one side (low light, no talking or playing, use a battery operated tea candle or a nightlight) Unswaddle baby (he had trouble nursing otherwise) They're also great for soothing baby back to sleep after a nighttime feed. You're not supposed to let baby sleep in them, but a supervised nap can be a game changer for breaking the over-tired cycle.
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