30 min day time naps

Teach them to sleep through the wake. I did it by accident with my boy as I had him in a rocker during the day & when he stirred I started rocking which lulled him back to sleep.

I had the same problem with my girls from 4 months - 45 min cat naps. Hammocks were our saving grace. We kept them in the lounge, babies were tightly swaddled with dummies and their sleeps extended most of the time.

If you work out a pattern you can go in about 5-10 mins before he wakes and give him a gentle prod to make him stir but not wake and that should restart the sleep cycle. Other wise just roll with it!

Yeah the old wake to sleep thing - if he wakes at 45min exact (which my boy did - HOW does he know) you can supposedly go in poke them awake then resettle to reset for another 45min. I never bothered trying as i was too afraid he would fully wake up then i'd have a 35min nap instead!! If i want DS to have a long sleep i rock him in the pram, park it up somewhere in the house and every now and then roll it backwards and fowards a couple of times. Lately hes been having 20min naps 2x daily but had a 2hr one in the pram this afternoon.

Bowie don't poke until away. Just gentle like even blowing on their face so they kinda squirm/stir but don't wake up!

Not a reflux baby by any chance? Refluxers are well known for 40 min napping, and you just have to deal with it ime.

DS1 did 40 min naps until he was 9 months old, and then he just slept longer. I tried every trick in the book, nothing worked. The best decision I ever made was to just get him up and get on with the day - sitting in a darkened room shusshing and patting and rocking 2-3 times a day was Very Very Bad for my mental health.

we tried the slight waking thing, didn't work    
only tried it once and then the weekend's gotten away on me. I might try it again next week.

I had a 45 min (or less) sleeper from about 3 months on until about 7 months. I tried every trick in the book, I started a few threads on here about it hehe I am sure I would have been frustrated at the time if someone said this to me, but I will anyway, nothing worked except rolling with it in the end. If I thought he was tired enough and I had a chance, I would try cuddle/rock/walk in pram to get him back to sleep, but otherwise I just got him up and tired him out as much as possible then put him back to bed 1.5 to 2hrs later.

He started sleeping longer in the day when he started crawling, standing and tiring himself out. He just started it one day and kept going, and I also found it coiincided with eating more solids too. So I think he used to do it because he wasn't tired enough to sleep longer than that and once he was tired enough, he started to sleep longer. He sometimes still does the shorter sleeps and it is usually on days where we haven't done a lot or he has slept really well in the night,

Things that did help somewhat though were teaching him to put his dummy in by himself, putting him on his side and patting his back, and having soft music on in the background. But time was the only thing that solved it for me in the end and once I gave up fighting it and stressing about it and instead just planned my life around it (ie racing around doing as much as possible in my 45 min window) I was less stressed. But I totally understand the frustration I used to find it so hard and exhausting, the days were long!!!!

Isaacsmum i did nothign with E, she always napped for 45mins, and now int he past 3 weeks she has suddenly started doing at least 1 2hour nap a day, and sometimes a 1.5 hour nap as well. He will do it when he's ready, just relax and dont worry about what they are "supposed" to do. babies are so different, i still have friends whose babies the same age as E only do 20min naps, and some only do 1 nap a day (E STTN and does 3 at the mo altho i dont expect for too much longer given her age). they get what they need, some just dont need as much sleep for whatever reason!