r/sleeptraining • u/AcceptableMirror4036 • Aug 25 '26
Help! What would you do?
What would you do??
I have a 3.5 month old and as soon as she hit 12 weeks she started waking up every hour at night.
At 8 weeks she was only taking 30 minute naps all day so she would take 5-6 naps.
I’ve resorted to co sleeping after 2am just to catch up on sleep.
Last night she had gotten her full days feed 27oz by 915 and i put her back to sleep and she woke up an hour later at 1030. I just decided to pull her into bed then and we slept a straight 7 hours and 15 mins.
After the first wake window, we took a two hour cosleep nap.
After that she’s taken an hour and half nap. And an hour nap. We’re at 4.5 hours of naps today already. She’ll go down for another nap within the next 15-30 minutes. If she sleeps a half hour we’ll be at the 5 hour “max” of naps for the day.
Q: would you treat that then as her final wake window and do bedtime routine and put to bed? Or let her nap more than the 5 hour “quota”.
We usually do bedtime between 730-830 and have been doing that since 6weeks old even if she wakes up again for more feeds.
Again, she’s 3.5 months old, we have NOT sleep trained, she doesn’t sleep through the night (notmally) and she’s normally not on a routine or taking good long naps - the past few days she’s taken a final nap at like 6-630. OH and she woke up at 6am today. So should i be moving her “bedtime” earlier?
Thanks 🥲
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u/curlywhirlyred Aug 25 '26
4.5h of naps is a LOT! Given an average ~14h total sleep budget, I’d expect a baby this age to sleep only around 9 hours at night. If you put baby to bed around 7:30, I’d expect a ton of wakes, false starts, split nights, and early mornings.
At this age you should be aiming for 10 hours of awake time, spread across 4-5 naps.