Has (BL) weaning affected (really messed up) your LOs naps?

[shirleycat1]

I am BLW my DS. He is now 7.5 months and has taken to food really well and we are both enjoying making a mess and trying new things.

So the food thing is going great but since he's been on solids his naps have just been completely rubbish. He's never been a great napper, but would do at least 45 minutes in the morning, early afternoon and 30 minutes early evening. Sometimes it would stretch to 1 or 1/1/2 hours. But not anymore. They are barley 30 minutes these days. It's driving me mad.

He never wakes up crying, just cooing and rolling around in his cot. I have tried leaving him for ages but he will not go back to sleep. I have tried extending his wake times and I have tried reducing them, thinking he may be over or under tired. But neither makes any difference. 30 minutes and he's shuffling and awake.

I'm not sure if eating has anything to do with this, but it does seem to have been happening since me have been on solids.

Has anyone experienced the same thing or can anyone give me some advice or suggestions on what's going on and how I can extend his naps again please.

Thank you...

Just popped in to say that my mostly-BLW 9mo DS naps are very variable.

My advice is that, if he's waking up happy then he's probably ready to get up. I would try not to stress about it if you can.

He is waking up happy, but then he gets tired and grumpy pretty quick. He won't sleep in his Baby Bjorn, which is the usual way I take him out, so he won't sleep on the go.

I swing between thinking, if he needs to sleep longer he will so it's fine, to thinking i should be doing something to help him get a better sleep, but I don't know what. I guess I thought there might be some sort of magical solution but it doesn't look like it.

If you find the magical solution, please can you let me know? .

The only thing that we have sometimes found works for our DS is to try rocking him back to sleep when he wakes after the first 30 mins. This works only very, very occasionally, and generally for our DS when he's not done a full 30mins.

My experience was that introducing solids did take DS's digestion quite some time to get used to, and he did better naps after a while (sorry, can't remember how long...). He's doing shorter naps again now (9mo) which is either because he's sleeping better at night since we finally tried controlled crying in desperation, or because he's teething. Or some other reason. .

The only thing that I've found really helps me is to try not to stress about it. I also remind myself that they eventually grow out of needing daytime naps.