9 months sleep advice!

[TiredMama72]

My baby is 9 months old, he’s not been a great sleeper until 7 months when we got rid of the dummy and he started STTN from 7/7:30-6. From about 4/5 months he has been a constant cat napper, 30/35mins seems to be the magic numbers. I’ve tried naps in car, pram, contact naps (which he will not do now) the room
is pitch black, black out blind, white noise on etc so I’m feeling like either that’s just him and he’ll improve on his on or I’m not getting the wake times correct. He wakes super early, like 5 onwards, I normally leave him in the cot he is 9/10 very happy chatting away and will go back to sleep and wake up closer to 6/6:30 but sometimes that’s him awake for the day and will not resettle which then makes naps a bit more all over the place due to the early rise. He’s not hungry, I’ve tried giving a bottle but he’s not interested at that time. More recently he has been awake through the night, I think a sleep regression potentially but also wondering if he’s just not getting enough day sleep. On a good night he will sleep 10/11 hours and day sleep can honestly range from 1.15hr / 3 hr over 2 or 3 naps.

Any advice welcome or is this just something that will sort itself out in time? Someone had suggested doing two naps exact same times every day to see if he falls into the routine but if he wakes up at 5:30 one day and 6:30 the next I don’t know if having a set nap time would work?

It does sound like it's to 9 month sleep regression to me and yes, good naps might be the answer. Have you tried the No Cry Nap Solution?

I’ve had a look on google but can’t seem to get a straight forward answer on what that solution involves? He does go to bed super easy in his cot for naps and bedtime not much fussing and asleep usually within 5/10 mins it’s just the length of the naps and I’ve tried resettling him when he wakes up, tried being in the room with him to try catch him early but he just loves a cat nap 🤣 I think you’re right about the regression, hopefully he grows out of the cat naps soon it’s just hard not to feel like I’m possibly putting him down at the wrong timings like today he did x3 naps and 2 of them were just over an hour just feel like I have no idea what I’m doing half the time but I think a lot of parenting is winging it unfortunately 😅

I’ve had a look on google but can’t seem to get a straight forward answer on what that solution involves

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