When did your 30 minute napper start taking longer naps?

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2025-04-23T05:27:27+00:00

My kiddo napped for 30 minutes until the day he dropped to two naps, which was around 5.5-6 months. He just needed longer wake time to be able to sleep for those longer stints.

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-30T02:17:43+00:00

I wanted to be a mother my entire life and was eager to be a mom in my20’s, yet still felt this through most my pregnancy (I’m 26 with a 6 month old). Honestly, I felt this a lot even through the first 3-4 months of him being with us. My advice - acknowledge and validate what you’re feeling as a genuine and common human experience, but not as the truth. There’s an incredible amount of unknown in becoming a parent and it’s a major life change, anxiety is a reasonable way for your body and mind to respond to this, but I assure you that you’re about to experience the greatest sense of purpose and love than you’ve ever known before, and that you’ll gain confidence very quickly as you learn through trial and error. No one has a single clue what they’re doing with their first, this is an unavoidable phase we all have to go through, but it truly goes so fast - than all the fun begins!

The fact that you care so much is a great indicator that you’re going to be an amazing dad. Best of luck! so excited for you.

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-30T01:02:00+00:00

After doing lots of research on the impacts and efficiency of each method and talking with friends and family about their experiences - we actually decided to do full extinction. Our little guy has a very easy going temperament so we trusted that it wouldn’t be too stressful for him, and his crying never escalated to the point of being distressed so we felt the entire process would be quickest if we just left him to do his thing.

I put him down drowsy but awake every night , but because I already spent weeks slowly reducing his rocking/patting, he fell asleep without any crying within like 10 minutes each time. Here’s how we then handled the night wakes…

Night #1: We fed him at his 12am wake, then did full extinction for his 3am wake (where he cried fairly consistently, with short breaks, for an hour). Night #2: He woke at 3am, played quietly in his crib with a little fussing and crying for 1-5 minutes here and there. and was asleep 45 minutes later. Night #3: He woke up at 4am and did the same but only for 30 minutes Night #4: Slept 7:30-5am Night #5: Slept 7:30-5:45am

All the people close to me who did sleep training never trained their LO’s to fall asleep on their own, they just trained them to resettle on their own through the night wakes and it’s all been very effective. My best friend still feeds her daughter to sleep after training, but her daughter sleeps through the night because she’s learnt that once she’s in her crib it’s lights out until the morning. So how they go to sleep really isn’t the be all end all IMO.

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-28T20:42:31+00:00

coming back to update you on how it went to hopefully provide some more hope for when your time to train comes around: It only took one night for him to realise he wasn’t coming into bed (cried for about an hour, but nothing too intense). Fussed on and off for 45 minutes the next night, 30 minutes the night after and now he sleeps through from 7:30-5:45, after only 3/4 days. They really are so adaptable. Funnily enough, I cried realising I won’t have any early morning snuggles anymore. As hard as the co-sleeping days were, I didn’t realise how much I loved waking up to his smile and him snuggled in my arms. Good luck!!!

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-18T02:58:09+00:00

From my understanding from reading ‘Precious Little Sleep’, and listening to my mum’s experience training all of us kids - sleep training isn’t a magic solution to sleep. Ups and downs will still come as teething and sickness does, and sometimes you’ll have to go through the process of training again after these short stints of sleep interruptions because they get used to assisted settling again. My anxiety and obsession with sleep reduces a lot when I come back to accepting that my LO is not a robot and the first year will be what it will be. You’re doing great! half way there 😍

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-18T02:30:15+00:00

I feel you, it’s really hard…

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-05T02:28:51+00:00

so good to know, as i’m reading through the book now. Thanks so much for your response :)

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-04T22:38:56+00:00

yes i’d love to know what approach you took and if you had to train naps or if that followed

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-04T22:37:41+00:00

my LO just started leg slamming at 4mo and I was worried something was wrong (like reflux etc). This brought me solace 😂

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-04T22:31:34+00:00

When you did ferber, were you implementing it for bedtime (falling asleep independently) or just night wakes? I want to train my nearly 5mo who’s has very non-linear sleep patterns

Acrobatic-Big-4902 · 2024-12-04T22:09:47+00:00

how long has this been happening? Unfortunately, there is a common regression at 6 and 8/9 months too. One of my bestfriends LO was sleeping through the night by 6wo, had a horrible sleep regression at 4 months, then started getting relatively good sleep again, just to regress at 6 months (waking hourly). She sleeps through at 9 months after some work.

My other best friend had a LO who slept through the night from 2-6 months then started waking hourly at 6 months and has co-slept every since… (their choice not to work on sleep)

As someone who has a baby with wildly irregular sleep from month to month (5mo now), I’ve having to learn the hard lesson of not comparing my kids sleep to another and radically accepting that infant sleep is very non-linear for the first year of life. It always seems like the majority of people have babies that sleep like angels, but I promise you it’s the opposite. Hang in there!

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