Baby waking after 30 minutes

[Newmama20232023]

During daytime naps my 10-week-old wakes up after 30 minutes crying. Is this because of trapped wind or because I put him down fast asleep & when he wakes in between cycles he doesn’t know where he is?

Probably the transition into cot

My oldest was like this, for the first year or so. Would only nap for 30 mins at a time. It was a fuckign nightmare, I feel for you.

Just contact nap with your baby..... It's not designed to sleep on its own.

I think that’s really normal for solo sleep at that age. Mine would only do half an hour on their own but if I held them / used the carrier they’d do much longer.
Sometimes if you rouse them slightly just before they’d normally wake up you can resettle and get another little block.

How old is your baby? Could be cluster feeding. When my baby was a newborn the first 3 weeks he woke up every 30 minutes all hours through the night to cluster feed bc of a growth spurt and also to help my body produce more milk

What they all said. Babies just want to be with you, so contact naps are really normal.

My eldest was like this. I could almost set a stopwatch and see his eyes open bang on 30 minutes after nodding off. Didn't matter whether he was on me, in cot, in pram etc. It was exhausting and he was exhausted too.

He grew out of it eventually. Sorry I have no advice but wanted you to know you're not alone - it truly sucked.

My baby did this unless I contact napped with him. Don't drive yourself mental trying to fix it. I tried for a bit and it made me miserable. They are too young to know how to connect sleep cycles once they come out of the newborn phase. They develop the ability at a later date (for mine it was 5 months old). Now I have to wake him from all his naps.

You can either contact nap or else stick to the 30min naps and put baby down more often. Somedays I did a mix of a contact/longer nap and 2 shorted crib naps so I didn't feel nap trapped all day.

If it’s always 30 minutes it’s the latter. Plus maybe some overtiredness.

I agree with holding them if it helps give longer naps. Unfortunately for Dc1 contact napping stopped working sometime around this stage. I had to do naps in a moving buggy or car to get them longer than 30 minutes.

I've had that with both of mine at various points and found it to be a couple of reasons -

Length of sleep cycle, so they are naturally waking and unable to get themselves back into another cycle. I found it helpful to get them to sleep in the pram and use a 'rockit' to keep the pram jiggling and it can trick them into staying asleep.

Overtiredness - keep an eye on wake windows and make sure you're not missing them.

It can also just be a phase. Contact naps are great as advised above but don't feel guilty if you don't want to be trapped under a baby. Sometimes you want to use that time to shower/make a sandwich/attend to older child! Perhaps naps in a sling could work though?

Good luck :)

Thanks all, prior to 9 weeks he would happily sleep in his crib for day naps and at night…now it’s only at night (or exactly 30 minute naps in the day). Contact napping with him for a bit so he doesn’t get overtired and hoping he grows out of it soon!

That's totally normal OP. Around this time they come out of the newborn sleepy phase so they actively have to resettle. For me it was the 8 week mark that he woke up and the 40min naps began. He will grow out of it in time. As PP said contact nap when you like. Other than that more frequent 30 minute naps are also perfect.

Mine did this until we went onto 1 nap at 15m! We just did all contact naps! Actually when she was on 2 naps a day I would do morning nap in cot (30mins) and start afternoon nap in cot, then she’d wake after 30 mins and I would rock her back to sleep and finish with contact nap. That way I had an hour in the day to tidy up etc but also got to have a sit down and cuddle/ catch up on tv for the rest of it.