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My daughter won't sleep longer than 45 during day is there anything I can do she's almost 5 months

Are you breastfeeding? Sometimes for me if my DD stirred after a short nap I could pick her up quickly and start breastfeeding and she would go back off to sleep again for a bit longer.

It gets better as they get older.

I'm sure that other people will be along with some better advice soon.

Yes EBF it doesn't bother me for the short naps I'm just worried she's not getting proper brain development from full sleep I hear so many people saying theirs sleep 2 hours but if it's fine for the 45 then I'm fine with it I'm a believer in that baby's know whats best for them just wanna know if she's right on her naps too

DD was exactly the same, she was always a poor sleeper and never slept as much as I was constantly being told she should. Her naps were 45 minutes to.the second, it was amazing. Feeding from about 40 minutes onwards may help, or singing to.her or putting on her mobile if she has one - basically you want something that soothes her to ease the transition from one sleep cycle to the next.

Sadly none of these things ever worked with DD and I worried about her development just like you. However she walked at 8.5 months, said her first word a couple of weeks later and at her 2 year check was assessed as having the speech and comprehension of a 4 year old so it obviously didn't do her any harm!

She used to sleep 2 when she was younger then one up until a week ago now it's 30 to 45

I fretted over and over again about the length of my sons naps during his first year; for the first 6 months he rarely slept for longer than 30/40mins at a time and often only once per day (and was almost always grumpy/crying!)! And then as he got older he started sleeping for EXACTLY 45 mins with EXACTLY 2 hours in between. Now at 12mths he sleeps for EXACTLY 1 hour once per day. -I'd like him to sleep more and for longer, I'm extremely jealous of those mums with babies who nap for 2hrs+, but I have just come to accept that he is just not a 'napper'. (once I came to terms with that i was a whole lot less stressed day to day!!)
Good luck!

Just read your latest post, it was my experience and that of my friends that babies nap schedules often change from week to week according to teeth/illness/amount of nighttime sleep/temperature/whether the month has a Friday in it etc etc!!!! I'd say keep putting your baby down for naps, try not to worry too much though if they don't sleep, babies also benefit from a bit of quiet time anyway, I'm sure in a few weeks naps will be back to normal anyway!

My DS who is now 4 did this. 45 mins to the second so he had 3 naps a day rather than a traditional morning and afternoon one. Only way he would do longer would be on my knee. Apparently babies have 45 min sleep cycles, adult ones are longer but that's why some babies wake up at 45 mins on the dot. Mine stopped doing this when he was weaned and also when he started moving about

My 5 month old DD naps for 45 mins too. If I whip her out of her cot quickly and put her on my boob, she'll go straight back to sleep. Currently only do this after the lunchtime nap though. The hope is that she'll get used to sleeping longer at this time. I leave her asleep on my lap with my nipple plugged in and happily play on mn for an hour!

Static radio (white noise) worked for us when DS did this at around 3/4mo - pop it on when you put them down for their nap, quite loudly so you could hear it over their cries and leave it on throughout. DS went from 45 mins to me waking him after 2.5hrs from thereon. We weaned him off it at 8mo.

Apparently the constant sound makes them fall back into the next sleep cycle easier.

HTH

My dd is just 6 months and sleeps 40 mins every 2 hours.... I remember my son doing the same tho he lengthened them at 6 months... Her night is 12 hours tho (broken up a lot) and his was never more than 10 hours... You win some you lose some

45 min was normal nap length for DS at under 1 year.
AT least he was reliable, so I could get a 30 min task done while he was asleep.

DS went through a stage like this. It passed. I think it's a pretty normal phase that will change as she gets older and her sleep patterns begin to change to that of an adult's.

Both of mine were like this, nothing I did ever made a difference, I used to feel so stressed and anxious about it, I wish I'd just accepted it (esp second time around!) They did both sleep for longer from around 12 months though, DD is now 16mo and will have a good 1.5 - 2 hours most days. Still seems less than friends babies but I'll take what I can get!

My DS (now 9 mo) did this up until 6 months old. NOTHING I did could make him sleep longer and as others have said, once I accepted it, then things were much easier. He'd always have three (sometimes four) sleeps a day - I'd try not to leave him longer than 2 hours.

Then at 6 months he started to sleep longer. It coincided with him being way more active - crawling certainly wears him out! And now he usually has 1.5 hours in the morning and then about an hour after lunch. Today though he only did 40 mins for the morning nap, so went down early for next sleep and I've just put him down again.

I always rationalised that as long as I was giving him the opportunity to sleep, he's figure it out.