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Offline mummy_bec

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Help! 30 Minute Naps!
« on: May 24, 2006, 03:41:30 am »
Hi,

My 8 week old has for the past two weeks been having 30-40 minute naps from the minute he is put down to when he wants to get up. This means that sometimes he literally has only been asleep for 5-10 minutes when he starts crying to get up. I stay in the room with him for the full twenty minutes and sure enough around 5-10 minutes after I leave he is crying and no matter what I do I can't settle him back to sleep. He isn't even getting to the 45 minutes!

Our schedule is now a two hour schedule:

e.g.

E: 7:30
A: 7:40-9:00
S: 9:00-9:30

E: 9:30 etc all day through until 7 or 8 when he sleeps until 12 or 1. Wakes around 4 and then the cycle repeats.

I'm getting so frustrated and I don't know what to do. He is getting tired at around the 1 hour mark but I'm not putting him down until he has been awake for 1 and a half hours in the hope that he will be tired and sleep for 1 and a half hours.

...Here he goes again he has been asleep for 5 minutes!

Help Me ??? Please! :'(
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Re: Help! 30 Minute Naps!
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2006, 04:00:08 am »
Hi.  Sorry - no advice.  Just thought it was interesting we are both posting pretty much same predicament at same time!  I am counting my DS's naps as 45.  But it is really 15 min holding and 30 min nap.  Ugh!  Good luck!
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Re: Help! 30 Minute Naps!
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2006, 23:55:42 pm »
Thank you, I'll give it a go and see what happens  :)
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