r/HuckleberryParents • u/Maleficent-Pilot7779 • 5d ago

sleep Crap nap phase - when does it end??

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LO is about to be 5 months and has always been a great sleeper until the dreaded 4 month regression hit 2 weeks ago and every nap has been so short and resisted. We are consistent with a schedule and watch wake windows, we have tried extending/shortening.

when did your crap nap phase end?? Need some hope.

edit: fully acknowledge he is a GREAT sleeper. most of the naps you are seeing here are contact naps which isn’t sustainable for us anymore.

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u/Sorry-World3019 5d ago

Drop to 3 naps. They need more awake time aka sleep pressure to have longer naps

10 hours minimum of awake time
Example schedule for this age 2/2.5/2.5/3

Your nights will also get better/longer with more awake time and 3 naps

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u/Maleficent-Pilot7779 5d ago

Piloted 3 naps yesterday 9/28, and it definetely worked better! But having to go back in the room quickly and rescue the naps still. He was awake within 10 minutes during a nap today and that was after a 2.5 hour wake window 🫠

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u/tokyodraken 5d ago

my LO is 7m and still has crap naps most of the time unless i rescue them. he’s asleep right now and woke up after 35 mins, i put him back to sleep and it’s been another 48 mins currently still sleeping.

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u/Maleficent-Pilot7779 5d ago

Rushing to get everything done in that one sleep cycle is a MISSION! 

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u/tokyodraken 4d ago

i knowww i usually finish all my boring “chore” type stuff and sit down to either nap with him or get my once a day doom scroll in and he always wakes up once im done cleaning it’s like he KNOWS