I am glad you are seeing improvements, we will take them any where we can. Remember they are just learning this sleep/nap/eat thing and change takes time.
Yes, i used wake to sleep for naps - When i say awake to sleep, i mean go in 5-10min before they normal wake and disrupt the sleep cycle in hopes it will start again and you get a longer nap.
I have used 'wake to sleep" many times during our nap struggles.
1st time when my LO was 4mo and started the 45min naps - I would set my timer, go into her room and when she stirred I would slip in the paci and pray she went to sleep. I did this for every nap for 2 weeks! It worked about 50% of the time and if it didn't I used shh/pat to try to get her back to sleep. Which also worked 50% of the time. The other % I had a sore back and tired baby :? .
2nd time I used was at age 7mo - she was waking at 4am (or something like that) out of habit. I set my alarm for 3.45am for 3 days and it worked.
3rd time was when we moved to the 1 nap and she took a 1hr 15min nap, same length as her previous am nap. It worked immediately and I did it for 3 days (as described in the announcement - wake to sleep).
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