Wakes after 30 mins during day

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We have a 11 week old who is starting to sleep really well at night with only 1 wake up.

During the day - the lunchtime nap and at 7pm he will sleep and wake again after about 30-40 mins. I realise this is all to do with the sleep cycle changing but is there a good way to try and train him out of it. Sometimes when he wakes he'll take 30 mins or so of rocking before he's asleep enough to be put in his moses basket.

Unfortunately it’s completely normal. My DD didn’t start sleeping longer than 30 minutes until she was 7 months

Ideally you want a settling method that does not require moving baby from where they are. For example

• Reinsert dummy
• Bounce the bouncy chair (If baby us napping in there)
• Push pushchair back and forth (If baby us napping in there)
• Rock a rocking crib (If baby us napping in there)
• Or patting / shushing in a cot, but this is often harder.

Then it is a case of responding to baby before they wake up. Ideally catch when baby leaves deep sleep into light sleep, but before going from light sleep to awake. Once awake it's usually too late to resettle.

What I found worked for my guy around 5 months was letting him sleep the 30 minutes in his cot, then when he woke I would rock him to sleep and let him sleep on me for another hour or so. After 5 days of doing this for each nap he randomly slept for 2 hours, and then the next nap 1.5 hours.

He does occasionally still wake after 30 minutes, maybe once every 2 or 3 days, normally if we missed his sleep window and he's overly cranky. He fell into a pattern of two 1.5 hour naps but he started waking earlier, so we've reintroduced a short 10 min power nap in the afternoon to get him through. If he wakes early from any of his naps, I just cuddle him back to sleep like before. It's nice to get the cuddles now that it's not required for every single nap!

I have this problem, and I am pretty sure he doesn’t get enough sleep in the day because of it. He sometimes only gets 1 hour 30 mins / two hours over the course of the day.

All 3 of my kids were exactly the same. I tried everything and I mean everything - but it was no use. Even in the car, driving along fast asleep then bang 30 mins awake every time.
Didn’t matter if It was sleeping on me, in the Buggy, in a dark room etc nothing worked.
Eventually, with my first she switched at around 6/7 months and slept for longer and longer (2 hours plus eventually!)
My other children did the same and by then I just knew to wait it out.
Don’t stress about it. Wait it out and it does change

I'm sure this is a development issue, my boy was the same until he started having longer naps at about 5-6 months.

My son is exactly the same. Just turning 6 months and wakes up 30 mins on the dot during the day. It's so frustrating because he gets grumpier throughout the day so it makes the days feel hard sometimes.

I have learned though that if I put him to sleep in the buggy rather than his bed or on me, he wakes up but with a bit of pushing back and forth will sometimes go back to sleep. I think maybe he can't link sleep cycles? Not sure, but from reading on Mumsnet it seems to be pretty common for babies to have short naps, esp when really small

I'm having the same issue and mine is 6 months! Weirdly his naps have gotten shorter and only sleeps 30 mins each time! I haven't changed anything. Must be a development thing