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Lovely DS won’t nap

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Emarosa · 14/01/2023 19:13

We have a lovely, super curious 10 week old DS. He’s wonderful in every way… but I recently read that babies his age are not supposed to be awake for more than two hours before a nap. DS sleeps well at night (wakes once for a feed and settles quite well afterwards), but getting him to sleep during the day is a struggle. He just seems so curious about everything and fights his sleep.

I try everything … rocking, singing, white noise, dummy (v hit and miss), dark rooms, contact naps, cot naps…

He sometimes drops off but usually for short spells of time. I think I spend most the day trying to encourage him to nap (usually while he grins at me :P)

Does anyone have any advice or ideas to share?

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Emmamoo89 · 14/01/2023 19:20

Do you put him down before his awake window ends? I find even if I went 5 mins over it he would be a nightmare to put down. I always put my baba down 15mins before his awake window ends. X

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Emarosa · 14/01/2023 19:25

I don’t actually. He has only recently started settling at all in a cot, so before it was just contact naps. What approach do you take?

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chillichutneysarnie · 14/01/2023 19:27

This reminds me of mine, he was a curious wide awake little thing that didn't follow any of those windows. I never did figure it out consciously, it just sort of gradually got better. That's not very helpful in the moment I know. I stuck with the white noise and darkened room, and now it's a good sleep association for him.

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Keha · 14/01/2023 20:37

With my 11 week old we have no particular schedule, I'm not actively trying to get him to nap. He has contact naps, and will sleep in the sling , push chair and car but when he gets these naps and how long depends on what we are doing. Will your DS sleep in pushchair etc? I think it can be easy to get very fixated on naps. I'm trying not to worry about it too much till he's more like 6 months when he probably will need a more definite nap schedule.

Emmamoo89 · 14/01/2023 20:45

Emarosa · 14/01/2023 19:25

I don’t actually. He has only recently started settling at all in a cot, so before it was just contact naps. What approach do you take?

So awake window is 60 to 90 mins. So put him in the cot at 1 hour 15. See how that goes. From 8 weeks I put mine in a routine. Bath and set bed time.

sunshinesobeautiful · 14/01/2023 20:53

It is a struggle at that age - it's normal for it to be a struggle. I took mine out on a sling walk for each nap at some stages. In a few weeks' time it might well get easier or even harder again to get him to sleep at home - just see what works best for him and for you through the next few months!

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