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Struggling with last nap of the day

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GiftWrappedSuburbanDreams · 30/08/2025 18:07

It's always been harder to settle my baby for his last nap. But the last few days it's been such a struggle! He's just turned 5 months. His wake window beforehand is around 2-2.5 hours. But he gets tired on the earlier side, it just takes forever to get him down, so that wake window gets stretched out too long. It's been 3 hours now and he's still not had his last nap. We're not able to get him to sleep within the next hour for bed. DH has taken him out in the rain with the cover on in hopes he'll have a quick cat nap in the pushchair. I'm not sure what we do though? He cant drop the last nap yet, he only does 3 as it is already.
Advice would be welcome! 🙏🏼

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SpruceMoose · 30/08/2025 22:12

Always did this nap either in the pushchair or baby carrier. At 5 months sometimes it would only be 10-20mins max but enough to get through until bedtime. By 6 months sometimes it was only 5 minutes and eventually it just stopped happening and then bedtime moved forward about 15 mins for a while until they'd adjusted.

GiftWrappedSuburbanDreams · 31/08/2025 13:46

@SpruceMoose Thank you, that's really useful.

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