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  • Giedrė Leleivienė

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    October 24, 2024 at 8:33 pm

    Hi Emma,

    My baby wakes up around 5:30-6:30 AM. So she has her first nap about 2 hours from waking. But I could not tell exactly what time she has all of her naps, since most of the time her naps are 30-45 minutes long and still seems a bit chaotic. Only sometimes she is able to have one longer nap. But her last nap usually ends at 6 PM and if she is still sleeping, I wake her up.

    She goes to bed at 8 PM, and around 7:30 PM we start her bedtime routine. It looks like that: we bathe her, turn on white noise (on TV with a dark screen no ads), put her in a sleeping sack and then I breastfeed her. When I see that she becomes sleepy I put her drowsy to bed and start patting. Recently I stopped waiting if she can fall asleep on her own for nighttime sleep because she always starts to fuss, then I have to rock her for a long time and if I put her calm but awake, she starts to cry again and I have to repeat the process, it is too exhausting. When she falls asleep I turn down white noise. The bedroom overnight is dark, quiet, and cool. And yes, she sleeps in the same room as me and my husband, I consider transferring her to her room when she’s about 1 year old, but also it would be nice to hear your opinion on that, when and how to do that. By the way, before regression she used to fall asleep about 8-8:30 PM and slept until waking for feeding but now she falls asleep at the same time but then wakes up every 15-20 minutes few times until she is able to fall asleep for few hours.

    Usually she wakes up about 11 PM, 2 AM, and 4 AM for night feedings. Before regression, she woke up only once or twice for feedings and and if she would wake up more she used to settle herself to sleep or with my little help. Now it takes much more time to help her back to sleep, even with breastfeeding and rocking it takes about 40 minutes for one waking. So she wakes up at least 3 times for feedings and usually even more, especially at the begining of night and then in morning from 4 AM. If she wakes up at 5 AM we usually are not able to her to sleep again. She refused to take a pacifier so she sleeps without it.

    My set-up time for morning wake-up is 6 AM. Rarely she wakes up around 6:30 AM, most of the time before 6 AM or even earlier.

    For daytime naps sometimes she falls asleep on her own, and sometimes I pat her but I always try to move to the bottom of the pyramid as soon as she settles down.