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  • Aditi Shukla

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    February 13, 2025 at 12:13 am

    Hi Emma,

    Thanks so much for the advice! All of the suggestions certainly sound doable and we’ll give them a try. We do have a few more questions for you.

    We will try to wake her up within a 30-minute window in the mornings. What should we do if she wakes up earlier than this window?

    If we can follow your 6 steps and get her to fall asleep with a gradual reduction in movement, what would be the next step? Would it be to put her in her bassinet drowsy and try to get her to fall asleep in the bassinet itself?

    Also, we had a related question regarding her bedtime. We’re still trying to figure out the correct bedtime for her. Since she doesn’t have many wake windows yet, we’re still waking her up from a nap or waiting for her to get up from a nap to do our bedtime routine. We find that if she wakes up around 6:30pm or 7pm from her last nap and we do our bedtime routine, she can stay awake for it, but gets fussy towards when we get to the last step, which is reading a book. With this earlier bedtime, she wakes up twice during the night. We’ve tried waking her up at 8pm to do our bedtime routine, but we find she is very sleepy and cranky if you wake her up at this time and is fussy for most of the bedtime routine. However, she only wakes up once during the night when we do this later bedtime. With both of these bedtimes, she sleeps the longest stretch of the night after them. How do we establish what the best bedtime is for her? Is her crankiness implying that we have her time wrong?

    Thanks again,

    Aditi