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4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« on: February 27, 2014, 23:25:45 pm »
Sooo i know there is a few posts on this subject but thought instead of hi jacking someone elses i would start my own.

My lo used to have a good morning nap anywhere from 1hr to 2 hrs, sometimes with some re settling most of time not but for the past three weeks will not sleep longer than 45mins! She sleeps 7-7.30 waking 1/2 times for feeds over night so is it possible shes just not tired during the day? Ive always cuddled her till drowsy then put her in cot and ssh pat if needed..she is bf

Our typical EASY is:

7.30 wake and feed
9.00 take into room read book gets drowsy
9.15 asleep by this time
10.00 wake
Try and resettle for another 30/40mins
11.00 feed
12.15/12.30 sleep
13.15/13.30 wake
14.30 feed
15.30 sleep
16.15 wake
17.00 feed
18.15 feed
19.00 sleep

I find if i dont get her to have atleast 4 catnaps she is really overtired by bedtime and has a restless night sleep - this is easy when im in the house all day but if i wanna pop out somewhere im screwed cause she dosnt sleep in the pram really (wayyy too much to look at!) and not really in the car unless its a long trip so i try to go out during her awake times but then she just wont sleep longer when i get home argh!
Do you think she needs to be awake longer inbetween? Or is it just the 4 month growth spurt and it will all click soon?!

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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2014, 00:23:18 am »
By 4 months many are ready for  nearly 2 hours of A time, so I would say most likely the issue is she is UT. 

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Most babies are doing two naps and a catnap, and usually a 4 hour EASY is the goal but many bf babies don't achieve that right away (my DD2 & DD3 were both not able to do a 4 hour EASY until closer to 6 months and even then not really as they were having shorter feed times in the afternoon than the morning). Our EASY now is more about making sure the E & S isn't too close together but it sometimes looks like EAEAS!
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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2014, 02:28:32 am »
Do naps have to be consistent times? Is that maybe a problem too? Thanks for your reply!

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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2014, 02:37:31 am »
No they don't have to be...some babies do work better on set times and others you can just go by awake times. DD3 does set naps mainly because with three kids it is just easier than trying to keep track of A times! Does she wake at the same time every day? If so even if you go by A times it generally means naps happen at a similar time if they are a consistent length.
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« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2014, 03:14:17 am »
Yep she wakes same time everyday! I'm thinking she might be ready to go four hours between feeds now cause she dosnt seem super hungry at each feed now.. So maybe i might look at that with extending her to 2 hours wake time and see what happens!


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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2014, 03:59:38 am »
Good luck! I tried to keep that extra A time low key at first to avoid overstimulation.
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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2014, 12:35:55 pm »
Ok so easily extended her feeds to four hours from 3.5 today but still didnt really seem hungry for the 11.30/3.30 feeds then all of a sudden at 5pm is real hungry!? And now woken up at 11.30pm for a feed too..
On a positive note though she had a 1.5hour nap this morning! Hope it carries on..

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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2014, 21:43:23 pm »
That sounds like a promising nap!
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« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2014, 00:01:17 am »
Ok so yesterday i got bub to have 1.5hr in the morning and around the same in the arvo for first time ever! But then she was awake at 3am this morning till 5am?! So is she now getting too much sleep?!

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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2014, 03:02:13 am »
Was she happy and chatty or upset? Or just hungry?
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« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2014, 04:00:27 am »
I fed her both sides and then put her back in crib asleep but then she woke up all chatty! I left her until she started crying then tried to settle in cot but just kept smiling!

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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2014, 04:36:39 am »
How much total day sleep did she get compared to before? Low sleep needs perhaps??
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« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2014, 07:01:45 am »
Usually she has about 1.5/2 hours total per day, yesterday she had nearly 3?!

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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2014, 18:18:44 pm »
How is it going today? Even my lsn girl does about 2-2.5 most days at 6.5 months. At 4.5 months we got 3 or so I think. Perhaps developemental? Any rolling etc going on? We get lovely nw's for practice!
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Re: 4.5 month old wont nap longer than 45min!
« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2014, 20:32:06 pm »
Yesterday she had about 1.5 hour in the morning (had to resettle at 40mins) and then a catnap in the arvo and slept 7-1am feed-7am!

Whats definition of a low sleep needs baby and how does it affect routine?

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