Contented Little Baby naptimes

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My 6 month old is a wonderful little boy who I have been basically attachment parenting with a routine that has come up naturally and has worked pretty well even though it's meant I haven't be able to do my roots in 6 months as i can never be sure enough of nap times to book at the hairdressers! However now I am getting him onto solids and am also so tired of not sleeping through the night (and him coming into bed earlier and earlier each morning to snack!). Don't feel able to let him cry it out but I was hoping the combination of a fuller tummy and an earlier rise (he's fully awake at 5 so I have him in bed with me - though can be earlier if he refuses to go back to bed after his middle of the night feed - and we doze on and off till 9ish as I am desperate for sleep) could mean he starts to sleep through. It would also help me be more sure that he was full and therefore have the confidence to let him cry a bit when settling for naptimes rather than breast feeding him to sleep in case he's crying of hunger (naptimes have always worked quite well but he's spent them in his pram so it's snug and I can rock him a little if necessary, since a few days back he's having to nap in his cot as I've switched to the pushchair part of his pram, and he's not liking it at all!).

Anyway, friends have mentioned the naptimes for CLB and they seem to coincide with my baby's so I was wondering if someone could be kind enough to write down the times for a 6 month (though if possible including afternoon naptime for a younger baby as he still needs this). Someone has lent me Ford's weaning book as I was so confused and this has food times.

Thank you so much and of course any other tips would be greatly received!

sounds to me like the book is a marketing ploy. as in 'for those parents who never bought/got on with clbb, here is another opportunity for me to sell you one of my books.'

Do you mean the weaning book? From what I've read so far it has pretty sensible advice and is very helpful when someone (like me!) is feeling rather lost in where and how to start. She suggests 'tier feeding' for example where you feed the baby a little milk, then the meal, and then the rest of the milk/ other breast. Perhaps that's common sense but I hadn't worked it out and so my son hasn't always been hungry to try solids. Have only read a little but seems good so far. Am not denying she is out to sell though... looked on Amazon and saw that there is a CLB book for the first year which is what I thought the original one was for...

i dunno. i assumed from your post there is a book to help you with naptimes.

weaning books were impossible for me. my dd1 wasn't interested in food till she was over 13 months old.

turns out she is egg allergic as well as dairy allergic.

have you looked at www.babyledweaning.com? tons of useful info on there for first time mums.

i think the connection of solids and sleep is sleep is over-rated. Babies also have a complex nervous system and a lot of neural development to do between 6-12 months and solids have no impact on how they will respond to this and sleep.

I wouldn't put too much weight on food to sort out naptimes. A lot of early weaning foods as per GF or Anabel Carmel or british tradition are less calorific oz per oz than milk anyway.

5-6 month routine has naps at 9-9.45am and 12.15-2/2.15pm. The earlier routines have another short nap around 4.30/4.45pm for half an hour or so.

agree with foxy about food not always meaning more sleep. My dd was a great eater right from the start of eating solids, but it wasn't until she was 13 months and learnt to walk that a full nights sleep fell into place. It also coincided with the time I stopped bf her. I remember at around 8 months thinking " anytime now a full night of sleep is mine"! No!