45 min naps help.

[Jen114]

My ds has been very good and cooperative sleeping through from 11-7 he is now 5 months 3 weeks old. I startEd on solids this last 2 weeks could this be the prob of early waking in nap time? And when he wakes he is happy and full o life?

[~Sara~]

Hmm, it might be; but if you could post his routine for a 24h period that would really help to see if there's an underlying routine issue instead.  My first thought is that he's actually taking undertired naps.

[Jen114]

Thank u for reply! Soo this would be the routine

7am awake breast
9am sleep aprox 45mins
11am breast
1130 cereal and veg
12 top up breast and falls asleep

Supposedly here 2 hours nap till 2
But around 45 mins

3 breast
If didn't sleep well before
330 nap-5

But supposed to have a cat nap around

4-5

530 cereal veg
6 bath
7breast and bed

Dream feed 11

How does this sound?

[~Sara~]

I'm still inclined to think undertired.  I'd start with the first A time and add ~15 minutes on to it and see if he sleep longer than 45 minutes.  If so, it was an easy tweak.  However, if he suddenly starts taking 30 minute naps and wakes up very cranky, 15 minutes was probably too much and he was probably overtired.  I'd then scale back to ~10 minutes more A time.  So, you'll just have to keep an eye on it.

Then, once you've got the first nap figured out, follow the same pattern for the rest of his day.

Anytime LO takes a nap shorter than about 1.5h, the following A time is reduced to prevent OT at the next naptime.  It means that the routine is a bit off for that day, but that's okay   It's normal.  Also, a good nap is anywhere between 1.5-2h at this age.  My DS never took a nap longer than 1.5h until he switched to one nap/day.  If your little guy doesn't take 2h naps, that's perfectly fine.  I know Tracey mentions that in her books, but it's more of a guideline than a set expectation, iykwim.

Here are some links that I think might help:
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=64158.0
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=164029.0

Give this a shot for a couple of days and let me know how you're doing