Wake to sleep to extend naps - successes and failures?

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I've posted here many times about my serial catnapping 5mo. My latest plan is to try wake to sleep, starting tomorrow. She wakes on the dot of 30 minutes so my plan is to g

FFS. Go in at 25 mins, give a little jostle and leave. She's not bad at self-settling.

Just wondered if anyone had tried with or without success? Preferably with!

Watching with interest :-)

Anyone at all?

I didn't do wake to sleep but managed to extend DS's naps when he was around 6 months by having him in bed with me and pouncing on him at the slightest stir and rubbing/feeding back to sleep. After a couple of weeks he'd sleep for 90 mins / 2 hours on average rather than the cat naps. It's definitely about getting past the first sleep cycle so I think wake to sleep well worth trying! I think unfortunately that tiny babies just don't sleep in long chunks though and you will probably find it gets easier as she gets older anyway.

Good luck!

It's worked a few times with me but generally it's unsuccessful.

I have had marginally more success with holding my hand firmly on him to stop him moving/rolling over when he stirs. The gentle pressure is enough to encourage him to pop his fingers back in and resettle. I have about a 20% success rate at this.