Pick up put down

[hiji3964]

Couple of questions!
We have just started putting 6mo ds down for naps without rocking him and using the PUPD method. It worked a treat and only took 30 mins the first time and from then on he takes 10-15 mins to fall asleep on his own and I just have to pop his dummy back in a couple times before he falls asleep. The only thing is now his naps are maximum 30 mins so he's very grumpy and if we don't get him back down for a nap in time he struggles to sleep. Before this, I used to co sleep for his first nap of the day and he'd have 1-2hrs, the rest of the days naps would be in his crib (after being rocked to sleep) and would be around 30mins-1hr. This worked well for timings and he was rarely grumpy.
My question is should I still co sleep with him for the first nap to get his day off to a good start, then if the rest of his naps are still only 30 mins he will be okay? Or will this confuse him as he's not consistently falling asleep on his own? I thought as he's done really well he may be able to fall asleep either way.
My other question is is there a way to extend these 30 min naps after he's fallen asleep on his own?
Ps his night sleep is great and he only wakes for a feed then back down to sleep straight away.

Thank you to anyone's who's read and to anyone with advice!

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It sounds like he's not joining up his sleep cycles - so he needs to learn to self settle a bit more.

I think it would be confusing to do different things depending on the time of day. What's going on at night? How do you get him down?

He's still very little so it might be a bit early for self setting. They all learn at different times.

At night he goes to bed at around 6, about half an hour before we come upstairs, have dim lights, classical music, nappy change then cuddles and a book. Then get into sleeping bag and white noise on and into cot with dummy. After he's asleep then he doesn't wake unless it's for a feed.

Yeah I agree it could be confusing. Admittedly we have only been doing this for 2 days so could he still learn? It would be a shame to start rocking him again after all this progress wouldn't it?

Thank you so much for your reply

Yeah I wouldn’t go back to rocking! He’ll get used to it. Also if he gets really tired after several days of poor naps it will help him go through and nap a bit longer. He’ll get there and you’re doing really well!

@BakedBeeeen thank you!!:) I thought that tbh, but you're always second guessing yourself aren't you 😂