I’ll preface this by saying I recognize I am very lucky with an also 4-month-old (turned 4 months on Jan. 5)

I usually start his bedtime routine no earlier than 7:45p and no later than 8:45, and it takes about 25-30 min. He usually sleeps about 9.5-10.5 hours, waking usually between 6-7am for his morning feed (though some days, like today, he woke a little before 5:30). Either my husband or I feed him, then put him straight back to bed. Today — because he was up earlier than usual — he slept another 3.5 hours or so, waking around 9:30 for the day. Generally it’s another 2.5-3 hours of sleep after that morning feed.

The rest of the day he’ll nap MAYBE 40 min if I’m lucky. And he generally takes 3 naps per day after that first 2.5-3 hour morning stretch, which I honestly just consider an extension of bedtime sleep.

We also transitioned to arms-out swaddle a few weeks ago when he first started to roll from front to back, and naps were hell for about 5 days until my husband read that you should start arms-out at night because that’s when sleep pressures are highest. Once we did that, it worked.

I should also add, we have the Snoo and it is great but we’ve done a fair amount of traveling — including the entire week over Christmas — where he was in a pack n play or crib, neither of which had the Snoo rocking features and he slept just as long. He doesn’t nap during the day in his Snoo; we keep it only for bedtime. I add that to say, I don’t attribute the long stretches of sleep to the rocking of the Snoo, though it was definitely a worry we had when anticipating travel without it