feels like massive step backwards with morning naps - help

[benne81]

My DS is 16 weeks old and I need some advice regarding daytime naps. I had managed to get him to sleep regularly in the day and he usually can't manage more than an hour and 15mins without needing a nap and then would usually have 45mins (very rarely a longer one). His nighttime sleeping has been improving and he slept through for the first time on the 29th Dec and since then has only woken once a night.

Since the new year though his daytime naps seem to have gone out the winndow and to me it seems like a massive step backwards. He is not having a morning nap at all anymore - he will fall asleep in my arms but when I put him in the moses basket he cries and wakes. I have tried to get round this by giving him a dummy and placing a hand firm on his chest and he will sleep but then wakes after 10mins. Yesterday my DH had to take him out in the pram and he fell asleep about 3hrs after waking (10am). Today he slept for 10mins and lay in his cot awake for 20mins and is now wide awake playing with DH again - grrr what has happened to my morning naps!

I had manage to keep his rountine going over xmas but I have let him sleep on me three times when we are round at other peoples houses and on new years eve we went to a friends house and we missed out on the usual bath and bed rountine - could this be a factor? Or could it be him becoming more awake and being able to last longer before his morning nap and I should try and put him down later for a nap.

Any advice massively appreciated!!!

Hi my DS is 18 weeks and he's exactly the same. Someone said to me that its the 4 month sleep regression and best thing is just to do what you can to cope apparently. I'm very stubborn though, so I'm still pushing for 2 long naps but spend most of my day fighting with him. The only sleep he is fine for is the first evening one and sleeps well through the night (but still wakes for milk grr)

Good luck x

It could be that his sleep pattern has changed - it's a bit earlier than for my DD for whom it happened about 23 weeks but it had me totally fixed for a week. She was never fab about naps but suddenly she would point blank refuse or sleep for only 10mins. She had gone from 1.5 hours awake to 3 hours awake over night. I had to start from scratch and wait til she started yawning and rubbing her eyes etc to work out her new routine.

I meant totally foxed!

Where does he have his naps?

Do you put him down in his cot?

Yep my girl went through a phase of refusing to nap in the day time at 16 - 17 weeks. She's now 18 weeks and has now suddenly gone the other way, out like a light at 11am and 3pm for 1.5 to 2 hours each time! Just a development leap I reckon - she has become so much more animated since the blip, grabbing things and really getting into her toys and also people