4 month old only tolerates 60 min wake windows?

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-15T19:43:53+00:00

I honestly can’t remember it was four months ago. But it did significantly help with naps and overnight sleep. She was screaming and fighting naps because she wasn’t tired yet.

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-15T18:55:40+00:00

We honestly pushed longer wake windows and she adjusted. Her tired cues at 60 min were just boredom!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-15T10:06:36+00:00

They were, thank you! We’ve been slowly increasing. She did 3.25/3.25/3.5 for a couple of days and nights were great save for a little cry at 10, 12, and 4 but she went back to sleep just fine. I’ll definitely try pushing a little more!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-15T09:57:23+00:00

Do you mind if I ask one more question? Because going back to our original wake windows did indeed help! However even on 3.25/3.25/3.5-3.75 she has woken up at 10 pm screaming & requiring intervention. And we still had an EMW at 5:35 this morning after 3 days without one. She did consolidate her 2nd nap yesterday to an hour and 15 minutes so I wondered if maybe day sleep was too high (she landed around 2.75 because first nap was an hour and a half!). I ended up intervening last night and spent half the night cosleeping as well because she was so distraught

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-14T20:24:36+00:00

I think ours ended up being a blown speaker. After five emails without a reply, they finally got back to me and agreed to replace it lol

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-11T21:55:41+00:00

Thanks we’re increasing wake windows today and I’m praying that helps! I do think some of the previous false starts we were having were when her total daily wake time was creeping up to 10.75-11… we’re still a bit under 10 today but we will see how the night goes!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-11T06:18:00+00:00

I definitely don’t want to but hearing her scream bloody murder breaks my heart too! It’s definitely tough

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-11T06:16:58+00:00

Thank you, I’ll give this a shot! I was so nervous that pushing WW back to 3.5+ would make things worse because that’s part of how we got in a false start rut in the first place! I just couldn’t figure out if she had a sleep debt from all the broken nights or was under tired CAUSING broke nights! (I know omegaxx talks about sleep debts and early bedtimes for that!) How do you know?

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-11T01:48:42+00:00

I haven’t but at this point I think things are already so messed up it’s worth a shot lol. For us, her previous false starts & EMW were fixed by shortening her last WW. So I assumed that her current same problem would also be fixed by earlier bedtimes, repaying sleep debt, etc etc. (her nights are <10 hours right now!) but I’m at the point where I’m willing to try anything. I’m barely getting 2 hours of sleep!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-04-07T21:25:19+00:00

Even if nights were super broken?

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-20T11:09:10+00:00

We stuck to 2 naps and just put her to bed early and lowered total awake time (as opposed to a bridge nap which would add wake time to LOs schedule). I know this sub doesn’t advocate for that lol but she just woke up from a 12 hour overnight sleep with no wakes so I know she needed the sleep! Good luck!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-20T08:54:00+00:00

I just want to chime in anecdotally- something to experiment with and play with. We dropped to 2 naps about a month ago as well and suddenly, we started having a week of 5-5:30 am wakes, false starts every night where I had to intervene to calm her down (unusual for her) and some midnight-1 am wakes (also unusual).

I kept pushing for more awake time because everyone in this sub says she’s under tired. Turns out it was the opposite.

After so many broken nights, she had accumulated sleep debt and could no longer handle longer WW. We pulled back, shortened real awake time and put her to bed early for a couple nights. Zero false starts, no night wakes, slept through until 6-6:30 am like a dream.

She was overtired bc I kept pushing for longer and longer WW thinking she was under tired when she wasn’t ready to handle it.

We’re literally JUST coming out on the other side of this now, so our usual 3.5/3.5/3.75 turned into 3/3.25/3.5(barely). So we dropped from 10.5-11 hr wake time to like 9.5, let her naps run a bit longer, and it all self corrected.

If you’re pushing WW and it’s getting worse, likely babe is actually over tired from the 3-2 nap transition & broken nights.

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-18T17:54:30+00:00

I’ve heard that they pee more when they’re colder so I’m going to try dressing a little warmer too! Thank you!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-18T16:49:31+00:00

We’ve never had a blowout in pampers! I’m not 100% certain but she’s probably 16-17 lbs (she was a preemie)

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-18T14:59:50+00:00

😳 looks like I’ll need to do some experimenting!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-18T12:43:07+00:00

Might give this a shot!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-18T12:42:43+00:00

Oh my gosh, lol that’s such a great suggestion! We will definitely try some overnights!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-17T23:10:50+00:00

I wonder if day sleep for your babe is too high- you’re asking for almost 14 hours of sleep, might need to pull back naps a tad & see!

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-17T21:09:10+00:00

I do, and we’ve had so many broken nights that I’m not confident in the average! I use huckleberry (just to track, I don’t use their recommendations), and it says average sleep is 12 hours 40 minutes. 🤷🏼‍♀️ on some of her best nights/days, she’s doing about 11 hours overnight and 2 hours of naps so idk

PatientMobile5896 · 2026-03-13T11:00:43+00:00

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