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Katiepillar 
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Posted: 24 August 2011 at 11:31am |
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Hi ladies,
Does anyone have any tips on how to get my baby to sleep for longer during the day??
He is 3 months old and will generally only take 45 minute naps. He will sometimes sleep for 2 hours, but it doesn't happen often. I have tried leaving him when he wakes but he generally doesn't go back to sleep and will start crying (I can't leave him to cry for long at all). I have also tried picking him up and resettling him, but he just screams when I put him back down. I have also tried giving him a top up breast feed before he goes down.
He sleeps ok at night 8.30-7 am waking for feeds at 1am and 5am.
Any tips would be much appreciated. 45 minutes just isn't lng enough for either of us!
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T_Rex
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Posted: 24 August 2011 at 2:11pm |
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Have a read of the no-cry sleep solution. I think one of the ideas in there is to gently rouse him not quite awake just before the 45 minutes is up, so that he starts another sleep cycle then. Hope that helps - nothing really worked for my girl, but it might be worth a try!
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Puddleduck
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Posted: 24 August 2011 at 3:32pm |
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I dont have any advice for increasing the length of sleeps, just wanted to let you know that after months of 30min day sleeps my DS started doing 1 and a half hour naps at 5 months. So it may just happen for you when he is ready.
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Hopes
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Posted: 24 August 2011 at 6:39pm |
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I also struggled with the 45min nap problem (or 30min, or 20min, sigh). Using a dummy helped him resettle to some degree (you'd pop it back in when he woke, and he'd suck-suck-suck and go to sleep again), but basically I had to resign myself to the fact that he just had short sleeps. And I tried everything. I found it easier when I stopped stressing about the fact he wasn't getting enough sleep, and rolled with it.
He has got a lot better as he's got older. It's very rare for him to have a sleep of less than an hour now, and he will sleep for two a lot, and three sometimes.
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kandk
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Posted: 24 August 2011 at 8:42pm |
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White noise - radio static at the moment - will generally send DD back to sleep if I put it on the moment she stirs, before she has woken properly. Best in the afternoon, when she is really in need of catch up sleep.
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MrsEmma
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Posted: 24 August 2011 at 8:54pm |
Ditto with white noise here (sometimes she settles but not always) DS had the same problem and I did try the 'rouse before he wakes' method but it didn't work. I just go with it this time round. It's hard though, I sympathise 
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Katiepillar
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Posted: 24 August 2011 at 10:19pm |
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Thanks heaps ladies.
I might try the rouse before he wakes thing and radio static.
It is nice to hear a few of you saying your wee ones have got better with age. He has improved so much from only being able to sleep on me during the day, so hopefully he will continue to improve with age. I really shouldn't complain much as he is a very happy wee baby when awake!It is just kind of tircky because you can guarantee when I decide to go to sleep he will only sleep for 45 mins, but when I do nothing he will sleep for two hours!
Thanks for the advice.
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CJsays
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Posted: 27 August 2011 at 9:41pm |
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Sorry Katiepillar i find that just sometimes 45mins is all they need, thats all E used to do then and she got by... some days she would do more, but some babies just dont seem to need the long naps as much as others i think. so dont stress too much if it doesnt work, be thankful he gets to sleep at 3 months i would have trouble getting her to actually get to sleep and would be thankful when she would do 45mins hehe! it is hard tho to get things done I hear you on that. E got much better when she found her thumb - instant settler when she needs it she just shoves it in and away back to sleep she goes, but not every baby is a thumb sucker unfortunately! i am very happy she is!
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tanialnz
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Posted: 15 September 2011 at 7:31pm |
Hi,
I really struggled with 45 minute naps with my little boy, I tried everything. Recently my friend had a session with Dorothy Waide and she passed on her advice and now my little boy sleeps for 2 hours with no fuss. Basically the idea is that you have an allocated time from 9:45 until 12 that is sleep time and the baby stays in the cot. At first my little boy woke up at the usual time and normally I would just go in and get him. This time I left him and after ten minutes of crying he went back to sleep, he did the same in the afternoon, after two days he doesn't wake at all and he seems so much happier.
We also gave him a toy which he loves and uses it to settle himself. It may not work for everyone but it certainly worked for us! 
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