Just looking for some advice on wether my little one is ready to drop the fourth nap and if so how to do it. He is just over 4.5 months
He goes to bed around 7.45-8pm (routine starts 7am) and up untill a month ago he was waking for a feed ~1.30am then going down until 7-7.15am which was great. He went through a phase (which I hope has passed!) of waking at other times in night, some nights every 2 hours but for the last month he has woken at 5.30-6am every morning. This happened one day and he’s never done a 7am wake up since. A lot of the time I can get him back asleep in my arms until 7ish but not in cot and sometimes I just have to start my day then as he seems awake for the day. Even if he does sleep in my arms his sleep seems very light. The last few days when he wakes for a feed he seems wide awake and has taken anything from 45 mins to 1.5hrs to get back to sleep
If I can get him to sleep in my arms untill 7 his day looks something like this. He naps on me during day.
9am - nap for 40 mins- 1hr
11.30-11.45 - nap for 40- 1.5hrs
2pm - nap for 30 mins. I tend to wake him from this so he’s ready to go down for nap again at
4.30pm for 40-45 mins will wake him if sleeps for 1hr
He feeds every 3-3.5hrs. He has only just started doing some naps >35-45 mins but they are unpredictable as to when and how long they will be. He can sleep for 2hrs after baby sensory!
The last nap is always harder to achieve than the rest. He is held in our arms with dummy.
Is the early waking and middle of the night alertness a sign of being ready to drop a nap? Or just a phase? If former how do I do it? Even with four naps he sometimes only totals 3hrs sleep in day and yesterday had only 2hrs 5mins as an appointment in the middle of day disrupted things.
Any advise would be welcome and sorry for long post.