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7 month naps all over the place
« on: December 14, 2014, 20:00:55 pm »
Where have my blissful sleeping babies gone.??!!

Rose and Jude turned 7 months on Saturday. I feel like they are completely different babies. They are very good at settle themselves to sleep but at the moment Jude is ok at sleeping (ish) but rose fights each nap especially her last one. We've been working on dropping the 3rd nap but this has been proving difficult this weekend. Our schedule at the moment is:-

5am -6pm wake up.
7am milk
7.45 food
8.30 8.45 Nap  approx 30-1hr long
11am milk
11.45 food
12.30 nap 30 - 2hrs used to be a blissful 2hrs!
3pm milk
3.30 or 4.15 nap depending on what time they woke from Lin
4.30 ish food
6 milk and bed

I would love your advice on how I'm going wrong and what I can tweak. I think they are both teething which I know isn't helping but I don't know how to get back to putting them down later for their morning nap. It used to be 9am onwards but now dos they wake so early I'm having to put them down early. Vicious circle!

Many thanks

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Re: 7 month naps all over the place
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2014, 13:17:20 pm »
Hi!

I would say at 7 months that the 3rd nap needs to go for sure.

At 7 months i think the average A time is around 3hrs/3.5hrs so i would definatley reccomend stretching the A time out a little 😊

I always found with my DD that she would have an EW when she was undertired, and also it could explain why theres some nap fighting!

You can push the A time in 10/15 minute incrumemts over 3/4 days then push again.  If you aim for something that looks like this -

WU 5.30 (example wu based on yours above)

nap - 9 to 10.30

Nap 1.30 - 3.30

Bed 6.30/7

From my experience, if the morning nap is too early it reinforces that EW. So i would try working on pushing that out later. It may be then when the A times have been pushed, the WU becomes later.
Hope this helps ☺️
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Re: 7 month naps all over the place
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2014, 21:47:22 pm »
This is great thanks. Will be great to get to 2 naps. Thank you for your help x

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Re: 7 month naps all over the place
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2014, 07:29:29 am »
Thats ok, let us know how you get on!
Good luck x
Jody
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