Hello
Looking for some help from someone with a bit more experience than me... btw I know that that five weeks old I'm probably overthinking this, and he could be totally different next week, but nonetheless...
My 5 week old son seems to resist naps. Most sources I have seen suggest that babies this age should sleep 14 to 17 hours per day. My son averages about 10. He will sleep happily in 3-4 hour stretches at night, but I'm lucky to get him to sleep for two hours overall during the day. He doesn't seem to get very grouchy, but I assume that the cycle of overtiredness is the least part of the reason he's not dropping off.
I try to put him down 90 minutes after previous waking, and I watch carefully for sleepy signals. I try to get him to a state of sleepiness before I put him down, and will then leave him with white noise. Occasionally he will drop off, but this morning he lay in his basket, happy but totally awake for an hour, and the same in his pram this afternoon.
I sometimes have success by feeding him to sleep and sneakily putting him down, but this is not really how I want to go about it.
Any ideas as to why he is not dropping off? Can I help him without intervening too much? And is there a point at which you give up on the nap and e.g. have some playtime? Obviously if I have failed to get him to sleep and it comes round to feeding time again, I feed.
TIA.
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Nap strategy - 5 week old
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Saz467 · 12/05/2017 15:41
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