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Hi Emma, thank you for your reply. I am day 4 of the second attempt at 3 naps and this time seems to be going better. Ro’s wake windows seem to have dramatically increased in the last week and I am just following his lead i.e. today first wake window was 2 hours, second was 2 hours 25 minutes, third was 2 hours and fourth 2 hours 30 minutes. I have been playing around with his feeding too as he used to feed 3 hourly pretty much on cue (formula fed) but now the wake windows mean the range can be 2 hourly to 3.5 hourly and he has never been able to wait more than 3 hours for a feed so he was getting upset and waking up hungry. I thought this might be why he could no longer complete the second nap as he would usually feed right in the middle of where that nap is falling now so I have dropped the volumes and added two feeds before lunch instead of one i.e. at the beginning and near the end of the second wake window – I tried this today and he had an hour and 15 minute nap for nap 2 for the first time since trying 3 naps. He did not prolong his first nap today however which he has done for weeks but woke up hungry with the lower volume perhaps so it is all just playing around at the moment. I imagine it will all change when he starts solids too. The third nap is still in the carrier and currently longer than a cat nap i.e. around an hour but as he settles in to the routine I plan to change to a cot nap but at the moment I think it is helping curb any over tiredness although he is waking cranky for about 5 minutes from nap 3 which he never does normally. Does this sound ok to you? I am just winging it and playing around with things.
Can I ask what you think about this theory to cap nap 1 at one hour to get a longer second nap? Is this something you have heard?
Best wishes, Pav