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Hi Emma,
That all makes sense. We’re trying your advice to leave her for a little bit to see if she’ll fall back asleep.
Our issues with sleep continue, however. In the past week or so, we’ve been having an increasingly hard time settling our 15-week-old for her first nap of the day. She’s been waking up recently around 6:40am, and we’ve been using a ~1h 20min or ~1h 30 min first wake window.
As I mentioned above, we are still using a combination of bouncing, rocking, and shushing to soothe her to sleep for naps, and this generally works well for other naps throughout the day. However, it has been taking sometimes upwards of 20-30 minutes with bouncing and rocking for her to fall asleep for this first nap, and today after 30 or 40 minutes, she still failed to fall and stay asleep, so I just gave up and will try to lengthen her second nap.
We feel like something is off with her first wake window, but we don’t have a good read on whether it is too long or too short. She doesn’t always show obvious sleepy cues in the morning. She does generally seem energetic and happy in the morning, even around the time that her wake window is ending. Our longest wake windows (at the end of the day) are only 1h 45min, so we feel like it would be unusual for her to need such a long wake window for the first nap, but is that possible? Do you have any thoughts on what we might do to help her get to sleep more quickly and reliably for the first nap?
Thank you,
Aditi