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Hi, Emma!
Thank you for answering.
For daytime naps, it sounds like she is sleeping in her crib after you go through a nap routine. You’re placing her in the crib, and sometimes she falls asleep on her own, but if she doesn’t, you use the settling pyramid to help her drift off. Just to clarify—she isn’t falling asleep in your arms or during feeding and then being transferred to the crib, correct? > Correct, I follow wake, feed, play, sleep schedule.
My baby girl now is almost 5 months and two weeks old. She used to have four naps but I noticed that she started to connect sleep cycles and for the past two weeks she’s having more and more three naps a day. There have been more very positive changes in the recent two weeks. As I mentioned her naps were already quite good but they improved even more: I rarely need to use a settling pyramid, now I just go through a nap routine, put her in the crib and she falls asleep in a few minutes. I’m so happy and so thankful for your program! Those are great results!
As you suggested I expanded a bit wake window before her bed and she stopped waking every 15-20 minutes before falling asleep for a longer time. But sometimes she still wakes after an hour when put to bed. I also moved breastfeeding to the beginning of the bedtime routine so now it looks like this: breastfeed, bath, white noise, sleeping sack, singing lullaby while rocking. However, I’m still not able to help her fall asleep on her own for bedtime: I put her down awake or drowsy but she starts to cry a lot. I still slowly go through all the settling pyramid steps and just do it at least once or twice hoping that just as it works for day naps it might work one day for bedtime – she might just need more time to adjust after regression… However, now she falls asleep in my arms for bedtime. Same for night stirs.
You know what is the weirdest part for me? The other day we were at my mother-in-law’s house and when nap time came, I went through the routine, put her awake and she fell asleep on he own even though there was a different environment and very bright. But for bedtime when there is pinch dark, cool and quiet – no.
She also wakes less frequently at night and it takes a bit less time to put her back to sleep but she still needs a lot of help: to be fed or rocked and when put down to the crib we pat or rock her (our crib has wheels) because if we don’t do that, even if she seems asleep she wakes after few moments. Also, she almost stopped waking up 5-5:30 AM and wakes up between 6 AM and 7 AM. So there are some positive changes here and I assume those are signs that regression is about to end but in general her bedtime and night wakings remain very challenging because she needs a lot of help to be settled.
Giedre