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  • Emma H

    Administrator
    January 18, 2025 at 10:22 pm

    Hi Monica,

    It’s wonderful to hear that your little one is falling asleep on her own for naps and that your routine is becoming a bit easier!

    Regarding your question about starting solids to encourage longer overnight sleep:

    Research indicates that introducing solids typically doesn’t significantly impact how often babies wake up overnight. In the beginning stages, when babies start solids, they’re mainly tasting the food rather than consuming large quantities. This means that starting solids is unlikely to make them feel full enough to stay asleep longer.

    Regarding her overnight sleep:

    Before I offer suggestions to improve her overnight sleep, could you please answer a few questions to help me better understand her current routine?

    • Is her bedtime still at 6:50 PM?

    • Is she still waking up consistently at 6:30 AM?

    • In your December message, you mentioned that she sleeps better on her tummy and was rolling onto her sides. Does she now consistently sleep on her tummy, or do you still lay her down on her back? And when she wakes overnight is she still lying on her back or tummy?

    • Has her bedtime routine stayed the same? So do you bring her into the bedroom, close the blinds and curtains, put her sleeping bag on, turn on the white noise, sing her twinkle little star and then lay her down (while she is awake)? I am assuming you might feed. her before bed? If you do, can you let me know when this happens in her routine?

    • What time does her last nap end?

    • When you feed her overnight do you keep the lights low or off and follow the wake, feed, sleep routine?

    • You mentioned that she sleeps for 4 hours at the start of the night, then wakes for a feed, then sleeps for another 2 – 3 hours and then wakes for a second feed then sleeps for another 1- 2 hours before waking for her third feed. So your night might look a little like this: Bedtime 6:50pm, first feed 10:50pm, second feed 1:30am, third feed 3:30am, wake up 6:30am. Does that sound about right?

    I was also hoping you could also let me know what her previous overnight sleep looked like before tha change?

    I am sorry for all the questions!

    Emma