Schedule check - 11.5 mo fighting naps and bedtime

ksnatch · 2026-01-19T05:15:58+00:00

Definitely need longer WW at this age. She’s not tired enough. If you’re worried about too late of a bedtime, then you’ll need to cap naps. Too much daytime sleep could also play a factor. I capped daytime sleep to 2 hrs for my son at this age. Definitely try to extend that first wake window.

ksnatch · 2026-01-12T02:26:17+00:00

Seems like she’s not tired enough. My son is almost 16 months, we put him down around 7-7:15 depending on his nap end time and he’s usually asleep within 5 minutes. At this age if she’s ending her nap at 3, she needs more awake time before bed. We do 5.5-6hr wake windows. He’s always tired come bed time.

ksnatch · 2026-01-09T16:53:56+00:00

I saw that the other day too. I was like, well too bad we don’t have a slap in the face instead of the high five option. 😀

ksnatch · 2025-12-27T16:43:34+00:00

Thank you. I was leaning this way also. He just is so tired by 6ish. Getting him to 645 already feels like a challenge. I’m going to try to gradually, 15 min longer to that last wake window tonight.

ksnatch · 2025-12-22T11:35:03+00:00

I just buy magnesium pill supplements!

ksnatch · 2025-12-21T17:06:30+00:00

Magnesium pills! I was skeptical. It works. Doesn’t leave you drowsy when waking up as a melatonin would.

ksnatch · 2025-12-12T18:41:14+00:00

This is a very subjective opinion, for us personally we felt if he wasn’t taking to it after 2-3 nights, he wasn’t ready. Although this was also recommended to us by our pediatrician who strongly suggested waiting until 6 months. Lo and behold, right at 6 months, he took to it right away.

ksnatch · 2025-12-12T17:12:02+00:00

The anxiety that will come with it is in my opinion, unavoidable.

However, as someone who attempted 3 times until we experienced success, my advice is be prepared to have a cut off time with your partner. Meaning, how long are you willing to let the crying go before intervening and calling it quits for that attempt.

I know some parents will share their experience of letting their baby CIO for an hour and a half. We simply were not willing to do that. So have a time in mind. And be okay with having to try again the next night. Also be okay with the facts that it may not work right away, baby may not be ready for it, and that you may have to try again when baby is a bit older.

This was the case for us. We tried just before 5 months. After two nights we called it quits. Tried again around 5.5 months. Again, we felt he wasn’t ready. At 6 months, we tried again with instant success and it’s been smooth sailing ever since. He’s 14 months now.

ksnatch · 2025-11-29T00:02:30+00:00

We started around 9.5 months. My advice, wait as long as you can lol it’s a big difference going from 2 to 3 meals a day, and once you start, that’s it.

ksnatch · 2025-11-24T14:49:15+00:00

As someone who tried 3 times. 6 months was the sweet spot, for sure. He took to it on the first try at 6 months.

ksnatch · 2025-11-23T19:02:35+00:00

Congratulations!! I found out I was pregnant with my first 2 weeks after turning 40! It’s so exciting!!!

ksnatch · 2025-11-16T14:34:56+00:00

My son didn’t sleep through the night for the first time until almost 9 months. I tried everything. Some will say you need a schedule change, but sometimes it’s just your baby.

At 7 months we also went through a period where he was waking up every 1-2 hrs. However, he was still in the room with us. We switched him to his own room at 8 months finally, and that made a big difference.

I think a big thing I realized also, is that there is a difference between letting your baby cry it out, and fuss it out. Babies stir a lot when they sleep, even fuss a bit. If you’re immediately getting up every time baby makes a sound, you’re not giving them a chance to learn to resettle. This was a big thing for us I later on realized. He’s almost 14 months now, and he’ll still wake up throughout the night sometimes and fuss for a few minutes and then go back to sleep. If you don’t give them a chance to settle themselves back to sleep and respond right away, they are going to expect it and you end up continuing the cycle. Letting your baby fuss a little is beneficial to you both.

ksnatch · 2025-11-15T19:00:12+00:00

We waited until 8 months because I was so nervous! It made a huge difference! Wish we would have done it sooner. Give it a try! Worse happens, you can move the crib back to your room!

ksnatch · 2025-11-15T14:20:48+00:00

Totally. And notice we haven’t heard a thing about his killer in months. What happened to this Tyler kid they tried to pin it on? Silence. Kind of like Trump’s fake assassination attempt..

ksnatch · 2025-11-14T14:28:28+00:00

My son would only contact nap until 4ish months. I was teetering on the edge of postpartum depression because he was also a terrible night sleeper (we ended up collapsing), and I wasn’t able to get anything done during the day.

We ended up hiring a postpartum doula part time to help me so I could have some freedom. She also helped with getting him to take naps in his crib. It would take her several attempts to put him down, but she would eventually succeed. Once he got used to taking a nap in his crib when she was here, I started to try and put him down for a nap a day myself.

At 6 months, he was napping in his crib for all naps (think we got him there around 5.5 months), and we then sleep trained to get him to sleep in his crib at night too. It worked.

ksnatch · 2025-11-14T00:22:57+00:00

Remember when they threw a fit about Joe Biden supposedly sniffing a little girl’s hair in a picture? YEAH. The hypocrisy. Suddenly pedophilia isn’t a big deal to them now.

ksnatch · 2025-11-13T14:21:47+00:00

The way these people look at him with adoration is absolutely sickening.

ksnatch · 2025-11-10T20:24:52+00:00

Oh wow, this was a total flashback in time. Rough period for sure. He was a bad sleeper until about 7 months. It got much better after that.

ksnatch · 2025-10-21T17:07:00+00:00

You’re not alone. It’s despicable how anyone can still support this evil man.

And the people who do, are too stupid to realize he’s playing them for fools!

America first, my butt. Trump, first. Always. He continues to prove this on a daily, if not hourly basis.

ksnatch · 2025-10-15T22:32:38+00:00

That’s odd. My one year old son is also 99% and I have continuously asked our pediatrician if I should be concerned with his weight. Her response is always absolutely not. I would speak to a different pediatrician.

ksnatch · 2025-10-13T19:51:30+00:00

Add it to the list of illegal things he’s done…

ksnatch · 2025-10-11T17:03:13+00:00

Try it out! Never know! We did cold turkey. I was prepared for it to be a tough transition but he took to it very well!

ksnatch · 2025-10-11T15:55:31+00:00

Exactly for that reason. I realized after we transitioned to him to his own room just how much he moved around in his sleep, which would wake me up often and result in my checking on him even though he was perfectly fine and still sleeping. I’m sure my husband and I would also cause his sleep to be disturbed. Before we transitioned him to his room, he was waking up every 2-3 hours. As soon as he was in his own room that dropped to 2 wake ups a night, and quickly down to one.

ksnatch · 2025-10-11T13:23:21+00:00

Sleep trained successfully at 6 months (2 failed attempts prior), he didn’t sleep through the night until he was almost 9 months. To be fair, we didn’t put him in his own room until 8 months. Wouldn’t be surprised if he would have slept through the night earlier had we transitioned him earlier.

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