My 6 month old son has only ever taken short daytime naps since he was very young. Now they're 25 minutes long almost to the second and it's really frustrating!
He sleeps well at night, 7 - 6/7ish with a DF at 10pm, although it can be a bit of a battle to get him down. We've recently used PUPD to get him to settle himself as we'd accidentally got into the habit of having him fall asleep on us. This was initially successful although we're currently experiencing a bit of regression with his nighttime sleep, he still settles easily for daytime naps mostly.
Until a couple of days ago he'd be awake for approx 2hrs/2 hrs 15min before showing signs of tiredness at which point I'd take him to his nursery have 5/10 mins wind down then he'd go into his cot & fall asleep easily only to wake 25 minutes later. I've tried extending naps by shh/pat and also by holding/rocking him (which I'd rather not do having just broken that habit) but neither have had much success-maybe get an extra 10 mins out of him. The past couple of days he's extended his awake time to about 3 hrs & dropped one of his naps so he now has 3 in a day, but he still only sleeps for 25/30 minutes.
He generally wakes happy but is often yawning & rubbing his eyes shortly after his nap although he won't go back to sleep if I try to put him back down.
If short naps are a symptom of OT then I think I should reduce his A time but when I've tried that he just crawls around in his cot until his usual A time then gets more difficult to settle.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
