Hi,
My almost 6wo (will be 6 weeks tomorrow) has been having trouble staying asleep unless being held. She moves a lot during light sleep and keeps waking herself up. I have just started shush patting her for naps but end up doing shush pat for the entire nap (also she only sleeps 45 min and can't pat her back to sleep again!!). I have to hold her after the 45 min (when shush pat fails) to extend the nap...
I am wondering if it's a developmental thing that she keeps waking herself and maybe it's still early to start using shush-pat. I worked on this for almost a week and don't see any improvements, i.e. taking 20 min to get her to sleep but waking several times until the 45 min mark and starts fighting with her entire body and hardly going back to sleep unless I hold her. I have been almost patting every time she wakes & cry.
She's on EASY but since her nap is not too long, we don't really have a schedule. I usually keep the wake time within 1hr 15min. She's swaddled and room is really dark. We shut the curtain, turn on white noise and sit for a bit before go to bed.
Please anyone can advise if it's feasible to address the waking up because I am about to give up and go back to holding her for nap.
Thanks a lot!!!