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7wk old only naps 40mins!
« on: June 11, 2015, 18:47:21 pm »
Hi there,

I'm very new to EASY - we have been implementing it for about 2 weeks now and it's going well. LO is 7 weeks and sleeps pretty well at night, she will sleep from about 9/9:30 through to 7:30 with a DF at 11 and waking for feed at 3-4am (but goes straight back down). But I can't for the life of me get her to nap! We follow Activity with a wind down where I do my normal nightly routine of a story and a song, she normally falls asleep or is at least sleepy. I then put her down and she will nap for 30-40 mins and then wake and I never know what to do! Do I resettle her or get her up? How do I extend this nap time. I particularly struggle in late afternoon when I'm guessing she's overtired and just won't go down!
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Re: 7wk old only naps 40mins!
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2015, 18:49:55 pm »
Hi - welcome to the boards and congratulations on your new baby :-*

You know at this age a story is pretty stimulating. Is she swaddled? That can help. So can a really dark room and white noise. How long is she awake for before she goes for her nap?





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Re: 7wk old only naps 40mins!
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2015, 19:47:43 pm »
Thank you :-)

So I shouldn't do the story? She does seem to drop off when you talk in a quiet monotone voice tho. She is awake for about an hour to max hour and half before I see her sleep signals and she will go down to nap fairly easily but as I said, wakes at 30-40 mins every time.

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Re: 7wk old only naps 40mins!
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2015, 19:48:30 pm »
Oh and yes she is swaddled

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Re: 7wk old only naps 40mins!
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2015, 19:50:08 pm »
It's really normal for young babies to do short naps. do you try to extend her nap when she wakes? You could try going in at 30 mins and gently patting to see if you can stop her from waking completely.





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Re: 7wk old only naps 40mins!
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2015, 19:59:46 pm »
I did try that once today and I intend to give it a good go next week but it didnt work today. When I can't resettle her, what should I do after the nap? More A time? She isn't hungry at that point.

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Re: 7wk old only naps 40mins!
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2015, 20:07:00 pm »
Yep just a little low key A time until it's feed time again.





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Re: 7wk old only naps 40mins!
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2015, 14:19:06 pm »
Hello, I'm going through the same thing with my LO (10 weeks). She started to nap for 45mins then her naps got shorter and shorter until she wasn't able to have any day sleeps at all and it really affected her night sleep  :'( (this was after being admitted to hospital twice so her routine completely went out of the window). We've been discharged now for two weeks and I managed to get her to nap for 10mins as and when I could and have extended them to 45mins. We're now at a stage where I'm now extending them to 90mins which is thankfully working and shevis starting to have colour back in her face!  :)

I extended her sleeps in my arms (I know its not ideal but was the only way to get to her each time she stirred). So I did the wind down until she fell asleep and each time she stirred I popped her dummy back in and did the sshh pat again until she fell back to sleep - her body fought it at first so I added in there a walk to calm her down before doing the sshh pat and just kept going with it until she goes back to sleep. Its taken quite a lot of patience and we've blocked out the last few days to work on it but she's now able to sleep again  :D I will be working on her sleeping independently as soon as she manages to sleep for 90mins without support.

Anyway I just wanted to let you know that you're not alone and that I know exactly how you feel!  :-*

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Re: 7wk old only naps 40mins!
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2015, 18:40:26 pm »
^^^ thank you for sharing your experience!! :-* ;D