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3 month old will only contact nap
I have a 3 month old baby and he will not nap anywhere but on me. In his life, he’s only taken a maximum of 30 minute nap in his crib. In recent times, I’ll attempt to put him down to nap after he falls asleep in my arms but he wakes up immediately most times. I’ve attempted to put him down drowsy and awake, but he will…
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Sleep troubles
My son was born 6 weeks early and was in the NICU for close to a month. He’s almost 2 months old. They saved him and gave him the best care, but now I feel like he always wants to be held. If he’s not he screams until he can barely catch his breath. As you imagine this makes sleeping extremely difficult. He will fall…
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Frequent Early Morning Wakings
Hi! My almost 4 month old wakes twice to feed with the first stretch 5-6 hrs, then another 3-4hrs. A couple times a week he will wake up every hour after his last feed (5/530am) till 7/730 it’s been exhausting. His bed time is between 7-8pm. He takes 5, 30-45min naps a day. He needs to be rocked to sleep but is still put…
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Transition from 2:1 nap
Transition 2:1 nap
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4am-6am wakings
Hi! I have a 9 week old and goes to bed 7pm, sleeps 4-5hr the first stretch and 2-3hrs the second one, after that he wakes up around 4am and has trouble getting back to sleep or wakes up every 1hr-45min until 6am, this has been happening the last couple of weeks and it is really draining. Anybody else have this happening,…
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4 month old won't sleep longer than 2/3 hours at a time during night
Any advice on getting my 4 month old to sleep longer than 2-3 hour stretches at night? I have him on a pretty consistent feeding schedule during the day, 6oz every 3 hours and then around 2-3 oz before bedtime around 6-6:30pm. Usually in his crib by 7:30. His bedtime routine is a bath and aquaphor every night at the same…
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18 month old screams at bed time for hours and hours
My second is a stubborn one, my son went through these sleep regressions and we did all the things the Internet said and he would sleep perfectly. My daughter however has been giving us the worst time at bedtime for the last 4 months. She only gets about 5 hours of actual every night, it generally takes me between 2-5…
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Precious little sleep
I’ve been working on independent sleep for 4 days now at bedtime using the methods from the book precious little sleep. So far it seems to be working and my lo falls asleep on her own but she ends up waking up 2 hours later and really fights putting herself back to sleep. I usually wait a few minutes and she does drift…
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Is my baby having enough sleep?
I have a 14 month toddler, she’s healthy and very active through out the day., she’s taking two naps/day, these are very short, varying from 30,45 and sometimes 1.5hrs. One nap is usually around 9/10am, second nap is around 1-2pm. I have been putting her to sleep between 6-7pm, I try to do the same thing every single day,…
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9 month old waking at 3:30-4:00 am
Hello, My daughter is just approaching 9 months she has been getting up every night between 3:30 and 4 am and staying awake for a hr. She knows how to self sooth, she puts herself to sleep and we try filling her up with as much food ( if she takes it) and milk as possible. She naps for 3-3h:15mins a day and is still on 3…
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Good sleeper and not following instructions
Hi My baby is 4 months old. She’s a good sleeper, since / months old she sleeps 9 to 10 hours stretch. I’ve read everywhere that I have to put her down in her crib awake and drowsy. I don’t follow that because I feed her (EBF) wait about 10 min in my arms because of the gases and then I put her to her crib. my concern is…
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how and when to cut out naps during the day?
i have a 14 month old and he wakes up between 6-7 hes very cranky with no nap especially his afternoon nap however i notice around 10-1030 he’s exhausted when do i know to cut out a nap? and how
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7 Months Old: A Tale of No Sleep
Hi Nanit community! My son will be 7 months old in a few days. When he was 3 months old, he began sleeping through the night. However the last month or so, he’s been waking at least once (but more like twice). I always chalked it up to teeth, growth spurt, milestones, you name it, I blamed it. He’s 20lbs 7oz, but not yet…
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Wake windows
Hello! my six month old struggles to stay awake for her age appropriate wake windows. She takes 3 sometimes 4 naps totalling 3.5hrs. Sometime the 4th nap needs to happen or her bedtime would be way to early. She can barely make 2hrs of awake time for her last wake window of the day or she becomes far to overtired. Is this…
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Short Naps
My daughter is 22 months old and she’s on a 6:30a-7a to 6:30p schedule. She naps around 12:30p right after eating her lunch. But lately she’s been only napping for one sleep cycle, around 30-40mins. She wakes up crying. She used to nap for around 1.5 hours about a month back. I don’t know why she’s just not wanting to take…
