We've made quite a lot of progress with napping over the last few weeks and my 13 week old will generally now have 2 good naps in the morning of 2hrs and 1hr20 - 2hrs over lunch (i often have to wake her from them). We are working on the afternoon naps still....! Anyway, if she's OT and goes to sleep tense or crying, she'll wake up from her nap after about 45 minutes, crying. I try and leave her if it sounds like a half cry and is stopping as much as it's starting, but as soon as it escalates or becomes continuous I'll go in. I don't know if it's that I'm starting too late (though it often ends this way whenever I go in) but she is impossible to calm whilst still in her room. While she's in her moses basket or in our arms, she cries continuously. As soon as we turn on the light, draw the blind or take her out of the room she stops and is all smiles again. Why is that and is there anything I can do to lengthen naps like these? Shush/pat doesn't seem to work. I pretty much always know when they're going to happen as like I say, I can tell from how she goes to sleep, though she does sometimes catch me out and it's those ones where I'm most likely to see if she'll settle herself.
