Nap help

[~*~Louisa~*~]

Hi sophina is 3 months next week and we had sorted her onto 3hr easy great

then she shortened her naps to 1hr so we ofcourse extended her A time nothing changed

Now we have got her to as much A time as she can handle which is 1hr 20 min but the nap is still an hour long

Shes not over tierd cause if she gets OT then she always naps for 30 min (and that was what happened when we took her to 1hr 30min)

What can i do, shh/pat doesnt work, she wont take a paci, she has a white noise thing playinig when she sleeps, she is always put down in her basket and is always swaddled
she self soothes to sleep and is a deep sleeper

I was wondering because her naps are ALWAYS 1hr now could i try w2s could that work? maybe if i disterb her enough to semi wake her and then she goes back off could that extend it

When she does wake up she is wide awake but then if we take her to the 1:20 again she is OT so she isnt getting enough for her iykwim

[deckchariot]

if her naps are always 1 hr, you can absolutely try w2s - than can be very effective for habitual wakings.  When we did w2s, the first couple days, I'd just go in 15 min before I thought she'd wake, and I watched what happened as she woke up.  Then I'd go in 10 min before, as I saw her start to wake, I'd place my hands on her arms and legs, if she kept waking, I'd start shhhhhhhing, if she kept waking, I'd start patting......and if she woke all the way, I'd try pat/shh or pu/pd to extend (but only for maybe 20 min), then I'd just get her up.

I only had success about 50% of the time, but it was still enough, and by 2 weeks later, she was doing it on her own.  So it is a bit of trial and error, in terms of intervening at the right moment and intervening the right amount, but it does work.

hth
michelle