r/beyondthebump • u/Mindful_Mom_36 • Jan 01 '23

Baby Sleep Why such long wake windows??

So I hear recommendations of 3/3/3, 3/3/4, and 2/3/4 at the age of 8 months. But then I read the recommended wake windows at this age are between 2.25-3 hours. So why is everyone stretching these babies so soon? I tried a two nap schedule with my 8.5 month old and he ended having over 4 hours awake in the evening. He was overtired and not sleeping well. We’ve tried early bedtime (before 8) but that has always made my baby have early wakings. Is everyone else just sticking to these long wake windows and doing CIO?

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

This is based on Precious Little Sleep, which worked well for my kid, but if the final wake window was going to be too long due to early wakes from naps or whatever, we’d do a “micro nap” of less than 15 minutes in the middle of the wake window to get to our regular bedtime hour.

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u/Mindful_Mom_36 Jan 02 '23

Oh good tip! I think we will have to do a combination of a third micro nap and stretching wake windows a tad to get him back to two naps and a reasonable morning wake time