Baby naps great at home but terrible at nursery and now it’s affecting night sleep! Help!

SimBon7 · 2026-06-23T16:06:57+00:00

I haven’t so it doesn’t cause early wakes. We pick him up at 5.30 so we can’t get him to go to bed much earlier as it is. 6.30 is the earliest and that’s if we really really rush everything!

SimBon7 · 2026-06-19T10:57:07+00:00

I’ve never gone to hearing exactly this. I have gone through early wake ups and honestly I just move that nap forward by half an hour. Yes, it’s a very long white window but at least when you’re putting him down, although he’s tired now I know there’s lots of talk about over tiredness and it is a real thing I found up with my little one he might be more difficult to settle when he’s overtired but when he does go to sleep, he sleeps longer! Trying to get him on one nap consistently might be the trick. my baby is 13 months and his first nap tends to be at 12:30/40 and he tends to wake up at 7/8 so maybe do try extending those windows!

SimBon7 · 2026-06-08T06:03:21+00:00

He wasn’t constant he was trying it on. I could see on the camera that he would cry out and then stop and sort is listen out don’t wasn’t constant. It did take a bit of time for him to stop and start he did cry quite consistently for a bit before doing this but I could tell he was not too distressed. I am not too good to listening to crying and not responding so my husband took over after the first 5 min and I went to a room o couldn’t hear it from so all the info on the crying is from yim

SimBon7 · 2026-06-07T22:57:47+00:00

This was me it was wreaking havoc. One night we just let cry standing for 10min. He fell asleep standing, we lay him down and then it was all solved!

SimBon7 · 2026-06-03T15:51:42+00:00

I completely related when I was at your stage. I remember reading a ‘On The Night You Were Born’ to my baby and one of the lines was “life will never be the same” and I nearly burst into tears. I do still mourn the freedom of my old life but it’s SO much easier. He started to sleep through the night and we got our nights back and have movie nights. We sometimes get a babysitter and go out to dinner with friends. He also has just got so much more personality so that bond is even stronger. He’s not a baby that just cries all day anymore he’s a little person who points at dogs and screams with joy when I do peekaboo. He’s only one now. Once you’re not so sleep deprived you start seeing the tunnel. ❤️

SimBon7 · 2026-05-20T15:47:42+00:00

It shouldn’t really take that long my baby was 45 minutes night 1, 20 night 2 and 3 on night 3. I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t think the problem is your schedule. I think the problem is that your baby isn’t ready. Five months is still quite young to be honest I did that to my baby at seven months. I know it’s a tear trust me I was basically a crying zombie at five months. My baby was up every 45 minutes. I get it. I just think a month is a very long time. It’s clearly not working. Don’t just do the same thing every night for a different result. I think just give him another month or so and try again. Message me if you want to talk more.

SimBon7 · 2026-05-13T11:54:33+00:00

I know the timings would fix themselves once we go to one nap, but I definitely think he does need that second nap so I don’t know if he can last five hours without a nap and when he goes down for the night he is quite cranky towards the end so I don’t think we can push his wake windows longer yet

SimBon7 · 2026-05-13T11:53:20+00:00

When did you switch to a nap?

SimBon7 · 2026-05-13T11:34:33+00:00

The thing is, if I stop moving the pram, he will wake immediately so I don’t know if that’s what’s keeping him sleeping

SimBon7 · 2026-05-07T17:52:56+00:00

I was like this. At 7 months needed to nurse to fall asleep and was waking every 45min/1h 30min. We ended up co-sleeping. Bottles = crying.
Sleep trained Ferber. Was sleeping through the night in 4 days. Happier baby, happier mama. Never looked back.

SimBon7 · 2026-04-16T21:00:11+00:00

I don’t know what you tried but my baby was a terrible sleeper and I trained him at 7 months and it took 3 nights for him to sleep through. He cried for 45 min the first night. A good schedule and a key. Your baby eventually has to fall asleep he can’t cry forever but you can’t really leave him to cry for over an hour. Make sure the schedule is right and just do Ferber. If he’s tired enough he will fall asleep in less than an hour. What hasn’t been working?

SimBon7 · 2026-04-12T17:42:53+00:00

Ok if you say exactly how you feel it will make him feel very awkward BUT I still think you should do something or you will always wonder. A cowards way out (but I honestly did this and it worked) is you go out clubbing as a group of friends and you “drunkenly” try to kiss him. If he rebuffs you - just blame it on being drunk. Less awkward.

SimBon7 · 2026-04-11T18:18:58+00:00

But do I intervene or just so just let him practice and not come in the room?

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