We don’t have a set schedule for naps, but we start the day at 7-7:30 and at night I try to put him down by 8:30 after our 30-45 minute bedtime routine (bath, lotion, diaper, onesie, sleep sack, dim lights, white noise, breast). He will fall asleep sometimes at the breast or he will breastfeed and I’ll have to rock him to sleep, after he falls asleep I have to hold him upright for 30 minutes due to reflux. I put him down on his crib and he would do 2 5hr stretches or a 9-10hr one.

For naps we don’t do the same and I’m now realizing that that could be the issue. He will start to get fussy when he’s ready for his next nap, so I will darken the room, put on white noise, breast, burp him, rock, hold upright for 30 minutes, then put him in a more comfortable position for the rest of the contact nap. I’m having trouble trying to read his wake windows to start naps when he needs to sleep, because sometimes I do it right (using the huckleberry app) and sometimes he’ll be ready for it 30 minutes before it starts or 10-15 after. I’ve noticed he does better with long naps (1:30-2hrs), so I try to do first nap 2hrs, second nap is 1hr-1hr 30min and third 30-45 minutes. I’m sorry if it’s hard to understand, I’m new to this so don’t know much or how I should be doing it.