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NAPPING FOR 15 MINUTES!!! HELP XXX
« on: March 03, 2012, 22:48:31 pm »
Hey everyone, my buba is 6 months old and never naps longer than 15 minutes. i believe this is the reason he doesnt sleep through the night, how can i get my little man sleeping and having a good solid 2 hour nap?? id love if he slept 12pm till 2 pm. please help xxxx

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Re: NAPPING FOR 15 MINUTES!!! HELP XXX
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2012, 22:59:32 pm »
Could you post your day's routine in EASY format? Like this
E: 7:00am (Eat)
A: 7:30(Activity)
S: 9:45-10:00 (Sleep)
etc

Thanks!
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Re: NAPPING FOR 15 MINUTES!!! HELP XXX
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2012, 23:10:22 pm »
Also can you let us know how he gets to sleep?  Do you help him?  Can he do it himself?  Where does he  nap?

Does he have a dummy?

And reflux or other issues?

How much does he eat in a day and does he have any night feeds?





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Re: NAPPING FOR 15 MINUTES!!! HELP XXX
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2012, 00:17:10 am »
E-7:30am at the latest
A-8:00am, watching telly, playing toys
S-about 45mins/an hour after his feeds. 9:00-9:15
A-9:15
E-11:00/11:30
A-12:00pm
S-12:45 for 15 mins
A-1pm       ect.

he has a dummy, he had very bad colic, but i changed his milk which now hes 90% much better!!! he lasts 3/3.5 hours between feeds. he can sleep a good hour in a car, but i have never made a habit of going in the car just to get him to sleep. i think him not napping in the day makes him that overtired when its his bedtime, that he doesnt sleep through the night. ive tried everything an i can only put it down to naps. if its not his naps then im clueless.

i get him to sleep by doing the same thing when i put him in his cott. everytime i put him in his cot, i pop his dummy in his mouth, put his cot thing on where it plays a song, kiss him, tell him i love him, then walk out with him watching me leave the room. most of the time he drifts off, sometimes i have to leave him to cry a few minutes to tire himself out but it never lasts long untill he drifts off to sleep. i put him to bed in between 8 and 9, he will wake between half 12 and 2, ill feed him, pop him back to bed, then after popping him back to bed, he will then wake every 3 hours. On one occasion i was visiting family, and he woke at half 12 at night, i fed him changed him and had him back in his cot for 1am, he woke at 4, and stupidly when he woke i took him in my bed an he then slept till 8am without me giving him a feed. so i cant tell if him waking at night is for food or just for a cuddle. i just dont kno xxxx

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Re: NAPPING FOR 15 MINUTES!!! HELP XXX
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2012, 21:32:04 pm »
Hi SammiwJoe
sometimes i have to leave him to cry a few minutes to tire himself out
Can you just clarify this please.  Is this a mantra cry, a sort of monotonous repetitive hum-like sound, no tears, no escalation?  Or does he work up to a very upset cry, tears, sobbing, screaming?


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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2012, 19:58:13 pm »
its not a crying, sobbing cry, its the other one. its not very often he wakes fully crying his heart out xxxxx

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Re: NAPPING FOR 15 MINUTES!!! HELP XXX
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2012, 20:44:56 pm »
Ok, so it sounds like a self-soothing mantra cry.  This sounds then like you have an independent sleeper when you put him down for his nap or night which is great.

Your EASY probably needs a bit of a tweak.
Most LOs at this age are on 4hrly milk feeds, I would push the time between E up gradually to get to the 4hrs.  This means LO is good and hungry and takes a full feed to sustain for the next 4hrs.
The A times on your EASY look somewhat inconsistent if I am reading it correctly.  The first A is only 1hr 30mins whilst the following A is 3hrs 30.  I think your LO would benefit from a consistent A time, somewhere around 2hr 30, and an earlier bed time (between 7 and 8pm).

You'll see in the second of the links below that LOs of this age would usually be on either 2 naps or 2 naps plus a CN (CN is dropped around 6 months depending on the LO, some keep it another couple of months) and that the long single nap at 12 - 2pm you hope for doesn't come until later (around 18 months, some move to one nap earlier)

http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=64158.0
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=85134.0
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=64161.0

There are some sample routines here, scroll down to the 6 month section
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=164029.0

There are some useful topics in the night waking FAQs if you have time to look, something there might ring a bell with you with regards your LOs nights.
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?board=88.0

You may find that both days and nights improve with a more solid routine.  If you gently push out the E and A times to a consistent routine then hold it there for a week or two you will be able to judge if or what may need to be tackled next.
How does this sound as a start?