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Offline lizzymac99

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Question about extending naps
« on: June 01, 2011, 02:34:44 am »
I have been trying to work on getting my dd to nap longer than 40 minutes for the past few weeks, now that I have a video monitor and can watch her I don't go in when she wakes up.  Previously I had tried other methods like shhh/pat to extend but she wakes up smiling and happy from each 40 minute nap so shhh/pat or intervention of any kind by me results in a lot of giggles and smiles and she thinks it's great!  Anyway now I leave her after she wakes up and watch on the monitor - I was reading how Tracy suggested using PU/PD for babies older than 4 months (dd is 4 months and a couple weeks old now) when they awaken from naps shorter than 1.25 hours, but my question is how does this work when they don't wake up upset or crying?  My dd will lay in her crib perfectly happy for up to 45 minutes after waking if I leave her and just look around, she never starts fussing or crying.

Also on a few occasions she doesn't go back to sleep but will sort of doze off and on for a while, sometimes the whole 45 minutes after waking from a shorter nap.  She wakes at the 40 minute mark and looks around and babbles, then sometime later maybe 5 or 10 minutes she will appear to sort of sleep with her eyes half closed for a few minutes, then be wide awake looking around again for a few minutes, then doze again for a few and this repeats several times - sometimes as long as 45 minutes, but it is definitely different than her real sleep... when counting her A time I count it from the initial wake up right? 

These babies can be so confusing?!  :)
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Re: Question about extending naps
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2011, 14:15:59 pm »
what A time are you using? it sounds like she is UT to me this is why she is so happy on waking!!

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Re: Question about extending naps
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2011, 15:21:04 pm »
Her A time has been slowly increasing over the past few weeks and is now at about 1.5 hours to 1 hour 40 mins.  In the mornings she shows me sleepy cues like yawns etc and I usually get her into her crib shortly after that and she will generally fall asleep at the 1.5 to 1 hour 40 minute mark in there.  By afternoon though she is really hard to read and I am not sure if it's because she progressively gets wound up during the day?  I have trouble with her during her wind-down routine for naps in the afternoons, she almost seems hyper!?  She also fights her last nap of the day tooth and nail but I cannot figure out how to drop it for her - the few days we were able to stretch out her naps and get her second last nap within a more reasonable time for bedtime she then fought the second last nap the entire time. 

I am having lots of trouble with her sleep and schedule and this is my first baby...
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Re: Question about extending naps
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2011, 15:51:45 pm »
A time for coming up to 5 months would be about 2 hours so I do think she is UT and thats why shes wakening and not fully going back to sleep.

I'd add 10-15 minutes  (so go for 1.50 maybe) for a few days and see does that help your naps. 
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